Perdue Into Nat'l Ag Hall of Fame and States Sue Over SNAP Delays
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson and this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Sonny Perdue is now a member of the National Agriculture Hall of Fame.
Georgia Ag Commissioner Tyler Harper made the announcement following the former Georgia Governor, Ag Secretary, and current University System of Georgia Chancellor’s induction October 23rd in Kansas City.
www.morningagclips.com reports Perdue was nominated by
Harper with support from Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval.
Perdue is just the third Georgian inducted.
www.morningagclips.com/chancellor-sonny-perdue-inducted-into-the-national-agricultural-hall-of-fame/
**Over two dozen states have sued the Trump administration over its decision to suspend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits tomorrow.
The lawsuit, co-led by New York, California, and Massachusetts, wants a federal judge to order USDA to use emergency funds for food benefits to almost 42 million families who rely on SNAP to buy groceries.
USDA says the program serves about one in every eight low-income Americans at about $8 billion a month.
**China’s state-owned COFCO, or China National Cereals, Oils, and Foodstuffs, bought three cargoes of U.S. soybeans this week.
Sources tell Reuters the country’s first U.S. soybean buy of the season happened shortly before the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi (ZHEE) Jinping.
The deal calls for a December-January shipment of about 180,000 metric tons of soybeans.
However, traders say they don’t expect a significant resumption in demand for U.S. soybeans.
