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Within the next 15 years, and possibly as early as 2019, the United States could become a net energy exporter for the first time since the 1950s, according to the federal Energy Information AdministrationPs Annual Energy Outlook.

Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and John Boozman, R-Ariz., introduced a bill today that would allow banks to finance agricultural exports sent to Cuba, helping to open up Cuban markets to American farmers and ranchers.

Fast-track is finally on the fast track. ItPs possible the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) deal needed to smooth the path through Congress for trade deals with 11 Pacific Rim nations and the European Union could be on the Senate floor as soon as next week.

The water development bill and barge tax increase that passed Congress last year could start to pay off for the ports and waterways critical to moving agricultural exports. Harbor projects are likely to be the biggest near-term beneficiaries.

Obama administration officials are telling lawmakers theyPve done as much as they can without action by Congress to make it easier to trade with Cuba.

Farmers and grain traders want to avoid a repeat of what happened last year when a labor dispute at the Port of Vancouver in Washington state slowed Asia-bound grain shipments.

A fight by California dairy farmers and their co-ops for a better deal in the milk market will probably come to a head by yearPs end, sparked by their move to ditch a state system that has guided their market for 48 years and, instead, form a federal milk marketing order in the

The Senate and House will move forward with renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), even though South Africa has yet to agree to U.S. demands that it end antidumping duties on American chicken.

The poultry industry is keeping a watchful eye on the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak across the Pacific, Central and Mississippi flyways, which experts suggest may get worse before it gets better.

Alison Van Eenennaam is one of more than a dozen researchers at four U.S. land grant universities targeted under state disclosure laws.