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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee considered several nominations for ambassador Thursday, including Indiana farmer Kip Tom, who has been nominated as ambassador to the United Nations agencies for Food and Agriculture.
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 30, 2017 – When Terry Branstad, the new U.S. ambassador to China, gets settled into his Beijing headquarters, the former Iowa governor is going to see some familiar faces.
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 - The Trump administration has made clear its dislike of the five-year-old U.S.-Korea free trade agreement (KORUS FTA), but...
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 3, 2017 -- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad heads to D.C. this week to meet with lawmakers and U.S. State Department officials about his nomination as Ambassador to China. The trip comes as Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to meet with President Donald Trump in Florida, but Brandstad said he won’t be joining those discussions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2017 – Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, President Trump’s choice to be the next U.S. ambassador to China, said today that if confirmed he will make it a priority to get China to lift its ban on U.S. beef and reform its biotechnology approval process.