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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 08, 2024
The U.S. Department of Commerce has agreed to reduce the some of the U.S. duties on biodiesel shipped from Argentina, and that has U.S. soybean farmers upset.
The Trump administration is looking this week to increase the pressure on Congress to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement while making progress with China in the wake of the recent meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Friday only a minimal increase in U.S. biofuel usage, reflecting modest growth in production of next-generation cellulosic ethanol, and the decision was immediately slammed by biodiesel producers.
U.S. and Chinese officials are already talking again, albeit long distance, to negotiate an end to a prolonged trade war. But farmers are losing patience as exports continue to suffer.
An insurance policy created to help diversified operations, specialty crop growers and small farms better manage their risk has slipped in popularity over the past two years, but advocates say a series of changes USDA is making in the program could reverse the decline.
Ag producers are more optimistic than last month about the future of the ag economy after a crop price rally, Market Facilitation Program announcement and disaster aid bill boosted producer sentiment in June.
More than a dozen Republican senators are demanding that President Donald Trump bar Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue from having any input into whether small refineries get exemptions from biofuel usage mandates.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to restart talks to end the U.S.-China trade war that has cost the U.S. ag sector billions of dollars in lost exports.
USDA on Friday reported an export sale of 544,000 metric tons of soybeans to China, just a day before President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in a renewed bid to end the two countries’ trade war.
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