Increasing global access to protein – specifically dairy protein – is important for growing children. That message, and specifically how dairy benefits the growth process of children, is detailed in a series of recently published research papers by Global Dairy Platform. (Dispatch-Argus)

The farm-to-table movement in the United States has grown in recent years, as consumers have increasingly demanded locally sourced food. But in the past several weeks, the movement has grown out of necessity because some producers can’t rely on the complex web of processors, distributors and middlemen to get food to customers. (WCIA)

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky recently announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched an online portal to begin accepting applications for Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program grants. (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier

The Illinois General Assembly has approved a fiscal year 2021 budget that does include some agriculture related provisions. Kevin Semlow, Director of State Legislation for Illinois Farm Bureau, says legislators kept the proposal very similar to the 2020 budget but it does include $5 million from the CARES Act for livestock producers. (Brownfield)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision Wednesday vacating the registrations of three dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF) and FeXapan (Corteva). The ruling does not appear to include Syngenta’s Tavium dicamba herbicide. (DTN)

Commerce Department figures due out this morning are expected to show that U.S. exports and imports plunged in April, the first full month of government-ordered business closures that have led to a nearly 15 percent unemployment rate, the highest since the Great Depression. (Politico)