Articles tagged under: government shutdown

Running Blind

Published October 3, 2025

USDA reports, including crop progress, crush data and export information, are unavailable during the government shutdown. "We're kind of running blind with the government shutdown, we don't have any true fundamental news, but that gives us plenty of other things to…

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Hoeven: 60 Votes Needed to Reopen Government

Published October 2, 2025

North Dakota Senator John Hoeven says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats are to blame for the government standoff. “We put forward a clean CR and Democrats need to join with us to fund it to November 21 to…

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Cramer Blames Schumer for Shutdown

Published October 2, 2025

Lawmakers are pointing fingers at each other over who is to blame for the government shutdown. North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been planning the shutdown for months. Cramer said, “we found out that…

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Fedorchak: Political Gridlock Puts Ag Priorities on Hold

Published October 1, 2025

North Dakota Representative Julie Fedorchak says the current stalemate puts critical farm policy and government funding at risk. "We got our work done by passing a very nonpartisan, commonsense solution to this, which is stopgap funding in a clean, continuing…

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Grassley Blames Democrats

Published October 1, 2025

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown. “It hurts the economy, but more importantly, it hurts the citizens who want services from the United States government that may have them lapse for a while." Grassley…

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Government Shuts Down

Published October 1, 2025

The federal government officially shut down at 12:01 Wednesday morning.  Washington analyst Jim Wiesemeyer says deep political divisions are keeping a resolution out of reach. “The Democrats, (Chuck) Schumer from New York on the front side and Hakeem Jeffries on…

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Fedorchak: Taiwan Trade Deal a Win for Ag

Published September 21, 2025

North Dakota Representative Julie Fedorchak says the new trade agreement with Taiwan marks a major victory for U.S. agriculture. “They have pledged to purchase $10 billion worth of U.S. ag products, soybeans, corn, wheat, and beef,” Fedorchak said. “That amounts…

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Government Shutdown Looms

Published February 26, 2024

Congressional leaders were unable to find a consensus on a funding bill over the weekend. Without action, USDA and three other major government agencies will run out of money on Friday. A government shutdown for the rest of the agencies…

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‘Playing Chicken’

Published September 22, 2023

Combest Sell and Associates Managing Partner Tom Sell says the current threat of government shutdown isn’t anything new. “This is an annual appropriations cycle so we kind of go through this at this time every year with various levels of…

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More Delays for ’23 Farm Bill

Published September 20, 2023

The drama over a possible government shutdown is adding another delay in the farm bill process. There are huge differences between the House and Senate efforts to fund the government. “At this point, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have the…

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