Wild Pollinator Study and Trump Tariffs Hit Deficit
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**A University of Georgia study on wild bee diversity in blueberry fields shows more about just how essential those wild pollinators are to one of the state’s most valuable fruit crops.
www.morningagclips.com reports UGA researchers are working to uncover what Georgia’s wild bees need to thrive, and how their movements shape the productivity of commercial blueberry farms.
The study focuses on how wild bee populations shift across space and time in southeast Georgia blueberry farms.
www.morningagclips.com/wild-bees-crucial-to-ga-s-blueberry-success-caes-research-shows/
**President Trump’s tariffs will take a big bite out of U.S. deficit levels, reducing them $2.5 trillion over the next decade and shrinking the size of the U.S. economy.
A Congressional Budget Office analysis showed the deficit reduction is almost exactly the same size as the deficit addition from the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Despite several tariff pauses on other countries, some are still in effect despite negotiations with those countries.
**The National Milk Producers Federation and others applauded the Senate Ag Committee for supporting, by voice vote, the “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.”
The bill would provide schools with the option of serving whole and two-percent milk, the two most consumed varieties at home, and offer 13 essential nutrients like protein and calcium.
Currently, school meal rules in place since 2012 allow only one percent and fat-free options.
