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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Heidi Kühn, the founder and CEO of the humanitarian nonprofit Roots for Peace, has been selected as this year's World Food Prize laureate for her work in turning war-torn land into farmland.
Interest, but also concern, is rising over three pipelines planned for the Midwest to capture carbon from ethanol plants and sequester it, which advocates for the projects say is a crucial step for meeting climate change goals.
Ambassador Terry Branstad has announced he is stepping down from being the top U.S. representative in Beijing, and Bayer’s supervisory board has extended the contract of Werner Baumann to serve another three years as the company’s CEO.
The U.S. will be losing one of its staunchest advocates in China for U.S. beef, ethanol and other farm goods in early October. That’s when Ambassador Terry Branstad says he is stepping down from being the top U.S. representative in Beijing.
The goal is for the U.S. and China to agree on a preliminary “framework” for a deal to end the countries’ trade hostilities when President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet later this month as scheduled in Argentina at the G20 summit, U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad told Agri-Pulse today.
The top American official in the People’s Republic of China says many of its citizens might admit to the American trade grievances at the heart of a budding trade war.
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 30, 2017 – When Terry Branstad, the new U.S. ambassador to China, gets settled into his Beijing headquarters, the former Iowa governor is going to see some familiar faces.
