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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 01, 2024
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi are scheduled to begin two days of talks on a free trade agreement in Washington Monday, U.S. government officials tell Agri-Pulse.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Bayer and crop protection groups are criticizing a decision by Vietnam to ban the use of glyphosate in the country, a growing market for U.S. farm goods.
The U.S. and China have settled on a way to enforce agreements made in a pact to end the trade war between the two countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday in a CNBC interview.
The National Pork Producers Council has cancelled its signature summer event out of an “abundance of caution” as African Swine Fever continues to rip through the global pork herd.
The renegotiated North American trade pact is popular in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, but the Trump administration and U.S. lawmakers are making ratification increasingly difficult with complications that threaten to derail the process.
President Donald Trump backed away from his threat to shut down the southern border with Mexico but then also pledged to hit the country with automobile tariffs, a move that breaks a promise not to do so under the renegotiated North American trade pact.
If American almond, citrus, pork, apple and dairy farmers want any chance of regaining their markets in China, Mexico and Canada, U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs will likely have to be lifted. The problem, however, is the threat of cheap foreign metal flooding the U.S. market is now as high as ever.
Fifty-two percent of producers nationwide are less optimistic about their farm’s financial future compared to 2018, according to this month's Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.
U.S. corn that is being exported during the 2018-2019 marketing year rates No. 2 or better on all grade factors, according to a U.S. Grains Council analysis.
Mexico is irreplaceable as a foreign market that buys billions of dollars of milk, ham, rice, potatoes and corn, so farm groups are alarmed by President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to shut down the southern border.
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