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Scientists offer little hope for delta smelt * Full speed ahead for USMCA

A congressional agreement to fund the government for fiscal 2020 includes an additional $1.5 billion in disaster relief for farmers and would revive the biodiesel tax credit and extend it through 2022.

Possible snag for USMCA * China’s key pledges on ag buys, trade barriers * Could wage rates save H-2A reform?

In what is setting up to be an historic week, the House is poised to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement after a bitter debate over the impeachment of President Donald Trump, and lawmakers also are rushing to pass legislation to fund the government for fiscal 2020.

The U.S. and China have signed off on a partial, “Phase One,” trade pact that includes a Chinese pledge to buy tens of billions of dollars of U.S. farm commodities, President Donald Trump said Friday.

CDFA sued over dairy quotas * Almond forecasting improves

Attention turns to Senate on ag labor * Rising optimism for China resolution

The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Wednesday to expand the H-2A visa program to year-round farmworkers and provide growers relief from wage hikes, but the broad GOP opposition underscored the challenge of getting Congress to address the agricultural labor squeeze.

President Donald Trump remains resolute that China commit to specific promises on amounts of U.S. ag commodities that it would buy as part of a trade pact, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said Wednesday.

Producers will have an extra week to sign up for Dairy Margin Coverage and the Market Facilitation Program.