…Flow for National Dairy Month! by Dana Coale, Deputy Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service’s Dairy Program June is an eventful and versatile month—the start of warm summer days, school…
CFBF Seeks Movement on Drought Bills
…urged passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement with 12 Pacific Rim countries that would expand trade opportunities for California agriculture (see related story, U.S. farm exports would gain…
Agri View: Different Crops
…current and upcoming marketing year. The United States is a major player in the world corn trade market, with between 10 and 20 percent of the corn crop exported to…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule Would Wipe Out TPP Benefits
…would move forward with new GIPSA rules. On the TPP Agreement, Hill told the committee that NPPC strongly supports the Asia-Pacific trade deal, pointing out that its benefits will exceed…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule, TPP Could Affect Producers
…vaccine bank to deal with an outbreak. Herring also reiterated NPPC’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, telling the subcommittee the benefits of TPP will exceed all past free trade agreements…
NMPF Chairman: Dairy Farm Safety Net Needs Work
…expressed concerns about the EU’s lack of good-faith commitment to opening its markets to agricultural trade, and its attempt to establish new non-tariff trade barriers through the use of Geographical…
International Trade Commission Report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
…issued a statement following the International Trade Commission’s report on the TPP. The IDFA says it applauds the release of the ITC’s investigation, which it calls an “important step forward…
Agri View: Consumers Choice
…to trade down to it from more expensive beef items during the 2009-2010 recession. They began to eat more pork and chicken, especially as their production increased and thus became…
Benefits To U.S. Of TPP Deal
…a U.S. delay in approving – or even a rejection of – the trade agreement, pointing out that other countries are negotiating free trade deals in the Asia-Pacific region, including…
USDEC, NMPF Respond to International Trade Commission
USDEC, NMPF Respond to International Trade Commission’s economic impact analysis of Trans-Pacific Partnership Joint statement from Tom Suber, president of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, and Jim Mulhern, president and…
USDA Increases Sugar Quantity, Access
…the U.S. Trade Representative will allocate this increase among supplying countries. Raw cane sugar under this tariff-rate quota must be accompanied by a certificate for quota eligibility and may be…
Viticulture for Veterans
…He took a chance and pursued his dream. Saving lives in a war zone It was a rainy evening in 2010 in a swampy region of southern Iraq, and Washington…
U.S. Beef Hits South Africa
…“The arrival of U.S. beef in South Africa represents another important milestone in efforts by USDA and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to regain access to this important…
Agri View: Ornamental Fish
…array of animal species that make up the generic ‘ornamental aquarium fish trade’ is staggering. Around 2,000 species and millions of specimens are traded annually in the ornamental fish trade…