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Agriculture, food, forestry and renewable energy political action committee donations in the 2018 election cycle remains skewed heavily in favor of the Republican Party, but in the Senate, two incumbent Democrats are reaping the most contributions.

Many of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters live in rural America, where it’s not unusual to see Trump flags flying high, along with caps and bumper stickers boasting his signature “Make America Great Again” campaign theme. But his actions on trade, are making farmers and ranchers increasingly nervous.

Mexico’s new 350,000-metric-ton quota for tariff-free pork imports is full, and none of that meat will likely be provided by U.S. producers, according to officials at USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. The quota was briefly seen as a potential lifeline for U.S. pork exporters, who were hit last week by Mexico with a 10 percent tariff that increases to 20 percent on July 5.