Articles Tagged with ''china''

The government is reopening for at least three weeks and the Agriculture Department plans to jump-start work on implementation the 2018 farm bill, a task that was interrupted just as it was beginning in December.

For some time now on the question of trade, all we have focused on is our trade war with China.

President Donald Trump assured farmers struggling through a prolonged economic slump that better times are ahead for U.S. agriculture because of his efforts to lower trade barriers to American exports and roll back regulations.

U.S. agriculture will be well represented when U.S. and Chinese negotiators meet in Beijing next week to discuss ways to end the ongoing trade war.

The Chinese government is enacting new procedures in an effort to curb the spread of African Swine Fever after detecting the disease at a large hog farm this week.

China is technically open to U.S. rice now – the Chinese ban was lifted Friday - but trade can’t begin flowing yet thanks to bureaucratic steps that remain unfinished, according to U.S. industry officials.

Normally at this time of the year, California farmers would be packing and shipping millions of cartons of oranges to China – but not now.

The Department of Agriculture announced this morning export sales of 1.19 million tons of U.S. soybeans to China, the third such announcement in the past seven days after months of virtually no trade amid U.S. and Chinese trade hostilities.