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Tom Nassif’s exit interview * Closing in on USMCA deal * FDA eyes next steps in food safety

Senate Republicans want to advance a fiscal 2020 domestic spending package as soon as this week that would include funding for departments and agencies critical to agriculture and the food industry. Meanwhile, House Democrats are closer to a deal on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement

Mexico tries to persuade Dems on USMCA * Kudlow qualifies Chinese promises

Another trade war? * BLM sage grouse plans on hold

The Bureau of Land Management did not adequately consider the science behind management plans covering millions of acres of greater sage grouse habitat in Western states, a federal judge in Idaho ruled Wednesday, halting implementation of the plans.

USDA Trade Undersecretary Ted McKinney is headed to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam this week on a trade mission with nearly 80 industry and government representatives.

Agricultural giant CHS Inc. is the largest cooperative in the nation and had more than twice the revenue of any other co-op in 2018, the National Cooperative Bank reports.

Two class-action lawsuits were filed against Sacramento’s Blue Diamond Growers in September.

Assemblymember Jim Cooper discussed the USMCA, funding research to halt a devastating wine grape disease and his frustrations with low engagement from ag.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has released new proposals for further mitigating the soil fumigant 1,3-D.