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Thursday, October 31, 2024
EUROPE, June 21, 2017 - Food companies that sell products labelled “soya milk” or “tofu butter” in the EU must rebrand their items or face potential legal action,
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2017 - President Trump heads to Iowa this week to showcase precision agriculture and its benefits to the rural economy, and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will host his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in Georgia.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2017 - President Trump is nominating Gregg Doud, the president of the Commodity Markets Council, to be the administration’s chief agricultural negotiator under the U.S. Trade Representative.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2017 – New measures unveiled today by the Trump administration to restrict U.S. travel and trade with Cuba met with strong opposition from U.S. farm groups hoping to increase agricultural exports to the island nation.
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – DuPont and Dow Chemical say they’ve gotten approval from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division for their merger, a combination that will create the world’s largest crop protection and seeds company.
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – The U.S. and China have come to an agreement that the U.S. Dairy Export Council says will pave the way for substantially increasing U.S. dairy exports.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 – The U.S. Commerce Department announced today a new draft a deal with Mexico to tighten the amount of refined sugar that the country can export to the U.S.
The newly revised “suspension agreement” mostly the same as the deal unveiled on June 6 and is being poured over by U.S. refiners and food manufacturers.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 – Corn growers in the U.S. and Canada will have a new option next year when Dow AgroSciences launches Enlist Corn, engineered to be resistant to the company’s Enlist Duo herbicide, which contains glyphosate and the choline salt of 2,4-D.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - Wheat, corn, soybean, dairy, rice and other farmers have been pushing for years to get better access to Cuba’s import market and concern is rising that President Donald Trump may push the two countries further apart.
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