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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be arriving in New Delhi Saturday for bilateral talks with Indian trade officials as the government there continues its controversial ban on rice exports.
The lead ag negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative says the U.S. has been “heavily engaged” with the Indian government on agricultural issues, including India’s recent export ban of long grain, non-basmati rice.
The U.S. is escalating its dispute with Mexico over the country’s ban on genetically modified white corn and its intent to eventually bar all biotech corn from food and animal feed by calling for the establishment of a dispute panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
China had no right to hit U.S. exports – including farm commodities - with retaliatory tariffs five years ago in response to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, according to a ruling Wednesday by a World Trade Organization dispute panel.
Drought, low prices, supply chain disruptions have been plaguing California’s walnut farmers for years and a heat wave during last year’s harvest scorched the state’s groves, but ideal weather so far this year has the sector optimistic that growers are going to see their fortunes change.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump dueled for attention as they flipped pork chops and greeted Iowans at the Iowa State Fair this weekend, while a slate of other challengers for the presidency highlighted their own platforms.
In a ritual that takes place every four years, presidential candidates have swooped into the Iowa State Fair to mingle with the throngs, and craft their pitches to the state's voters while occasionally addressing rural and agriculture issues that seldom get mentioned later in the campaign.
Pork exports have enjoyed a healthy first half of 2023, but beef sales to overseas customers have lagged, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
Prices for global food commodities rebounded in July, driven in part by a sharp rise in the cost of sunflower oil as Russia terminated the Black Sea Grain Initiative, creating new uncertainty about Ukraine’s ag exports, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported Friday.
Iowa farmers on Thursday urged members of Congress to be cautious in seeking to curb China's theft of U.S. intellectual property and unfair trade tactics, noting the nation's importance as a consumer of soybeans and other commodities.
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