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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 02, 2024
The U.S. on Thursday won a key victory at the World Trade Organization to compel China to stop propping up its wheat and rice farmers by maintaining artificially high prices.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said today he is planning on officially starting negotiations with Japan next month for a bilateral free trade agreement.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue provided the implementation dates for the 2018 farm bill, saying the first payments to dairy producers could be delivered in July, and he told lawmakers that the White House is working on a comprehensive immigration reform proposal with the help of a USDA adviser.
The island nation of Haiti, rocked by recent violent protests over allegations of corruption, inflation and a flailing economy, needs cheap food, and the country is reaching out to U.S. rice farmers and millers for help.
If the EU succeeds in placing further expanding restrictions on the use of generic terms such as parmesan, asiago, and feta, a new study suggests dire consequences for the U.S. dairy industry.
Corteva Agriscience and MS Technologies have announced that they will launch Enlist E3 soybeans commercially in the U.S. and Canada this year, following import approval last week from the Philippines.
China agreed to buy an additional 10 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans as negotiators from both countries agreed to extend the latest round of trade talks to go through the weekend, a sign that significant progress is being made to end the trade war, President Donald Trump said Friday.
The top U.S., Canadian and Mexican agriculture officials came together today to espouse the benefits of trilateral cooperation and a newly renegotiated North American trade pact, but the unity was marred by the Trump administration’s refusal to lift its steel and aluminum tariffs.
USDA economists expect farmers to increase plantings of corn this spring while reducing their soybean production as the Trump administration's ongoing trade war with China remains unsettled. Record amounts of meat and milk production are projected.
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