Bird Flu no Cake Walk and Tariff Threat on EU Booze
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**With California’s robust investment and experience in animal disease detection, there’s little disagreement in agricultural circles that the state was well prepared for bird flu.
But ag officials, farmers and industry representatives also acknowledge that the latest outbreak, which began in 2022, has been no cakewalk.
Bird flu has led to the destruction of more than 166 million birds nationwide, record-high egg prices and the disease infecting most of the state’s dairies.
**The nation’s largest biofuel trade association commended the EPA after it announced it would reconsider its tailpipe emissions rule for model years 2027 and Later Light-and-Medium-Duty Vehicles.
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor says we’re glad to see EPA reconsidering this rule, which arbitrarily puts its thumb on the scale for a single vehicle technology instead of embracing homegrown renewable fuels. We look forward to working with EPA as they restructure these standards.
**President Trump has threatened 200% tariffs champagnes, wines and spirits from the EU in response to its retaliatory tariff of 50% on U.S. spirits.
On Truth Social, President Trump said he would put the tariff in place unless the EU removed the tariffs it imposed on U.S. spirits on Wednesday.
He called the tariff on bourbon “nasty” and said that this 200% levy “will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
