Insurance accounted for about 26% of corn income last season, far above normal, an AgriSolutions study finds. See DTN Ag News. 1^DTN Ag Business Benchmark...

Repeating a provision they introduced last year, senators backed a plan that would lower the premium subsidy for farmers making more than $750,000 adjusted gross income. The vote was 59-33 despite opposition from leaders on the Senate Agriculture Committee. The farm bill debate is now on hiatus until the Senate returns June. 3. See DTN Ag News. BSen. Backs Insurance AGI Cap...

Opponents of COOL on Thursday criticized USDA and the new labeling requirements. Those criticisms were loudest from U.S. meatpackers, feeders and Canadians. The new rule would prohibit packers and retailers from co-mingling meat coming from animals born or raised in different countries. See . FCritics Lament New COOL Rule...

While ballot initiatives and state legislators continue pushing labels on foods that include ingredients from biotech crops, an amendment to the farm bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to ensure states have the freedom to require such labels, received just 27 votes on Thursday with 71 senators rejecting such state-created food labels. See DTN Ag News. BSenate Rejects Biotech Labels...