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WASHINGTON, June 18, 2017 - President Trump heads to Iowa this week to showcase precision agriculture and its benefits to the rural economy, and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will host his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in Georgia.

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – Some of the biggest names in agricultural research defended the importance of government science funding at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing today where lawmakers expressed resistance to proposed spending cuts from the White House.

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 - EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt committed to publishing a new rule establishing which waters would be regulated under the Clean Water Act by the first three months of next year at the latest, in testimony before House appropriators today.

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – Members of President Trump’s Cabinet and senior officials from the White House and throughout the federal government today pledged to forge agreement on ways to boost the farm economy and address economic and social challenges across rural America.

The food and agriculture community in the nation’s capital is reeling from the shock of the shootings at the congressional baseball practice.

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 – The U.S. Commerce Department announced today a new draft a deal with Mexico to tighten the amount of refined sugar that the country can export to the U.S. The newly revised “suspension agreement” mostly the same as the deal unveiled on June 6 and is being poured over by U.S. refiners and food manufacturers.

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway was among the GOP lawmakers who found themselves targeted by a shooter during a routine practice for the annual congressional baseball game. A Tyson Foods lobbyist was wounded in the incident.

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 – A hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee left backers of a bill that would expand sale of higher ethanol blends encouraged, but the legislation has an uncertain future.