…replacing the westerly half of the Oil Station system with new facilities. The proposed project is estimated to achieve water savings of 1,055 acre-feet annually. Firebaugh Canal Water District –…
Daily California Eggs
Prices are steady. Trade sentiment is steady to instances lower. Demand is light to moderate on moderate to occasionally heavy offerings. Supplies are moderate. Market activity is slow. Shell egg…
USDA Announces Funding, Issues Federal Order to Combat PEDv
…$3.9 million to be used by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to support the development of vaccines $2.4 million to cooperative agreement funding for States to support management and control…
Time to End Trade Talks with Japan?
Grassley Agriculture Senator Chuck Grassley is joining key farm groups in saying it may be time to move on without Japan in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks. Sabrina Hill has…
Daily California Eggs for Wednesday 05/28/14
Prices are steady. Trade sentiment is steady to higher. Retail demand is light to moderate with loose egg movement moderate to fairly good. Offerings and supplies are moderate. Market activity…
Agriculture Groups Urge TPP Deal Without Japan
…trade agreements the United States has concluded since 2000, only 233 tariff lines combined have been exempted from having tariff elimination. “Allowing Japan to exempt products from going to a…
Agribusiness Export Training Seminars
…Free Trade Agreements, international shipping, payment methods and documentation will also be provided to attendees. “Through our export development initiative, including the three-city rural seminar Exporting in a Global Market…
Daily California Eggs for 05-23-14
Benchmark prices are steady. Asking prices for next week are 5 cents higher for Jumbo and 6 cents higher on the remainder of sizes. Trade sentiment is steady to higher….
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Highlights Recent Trade Breakthroughs with Mexico
…today highlighted recent progress on a number of trade issues with Mexico following a panel discussion with Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture Enrique Martínez y Martínez. The panel was part of…
Do You Check the Sugar Label?
…the Sugar Label? Now the U.S. international Trade Commission has determined there is a reasonable indication that U.S. sugar growers have been materially injured by those Mexican sugar imports, which…
Vilsack Comments on Creating Undersecretary for Trade, and TPA
…review the idea of creating an Undersecretary for Trade. Vilsack also weighed in at a recent Senate Ag Hearing on Trade Promotion Authority needed to speed deals through Congress without…
California Women for Agriculture Take on Sacramento
…at Downtown & Vine in Sacramento. This well attended event was open to all elected officials, their staff as well as trade organizations and state commissions. California Women for Agriculture…
Ag Sec. Vilsack Announces Continued Progress on 2014 Farm Bill Implementation
…and making important reforms to existing programs.” Since the Farm Bill was signed, USDA has made progress throughout all Farm Bill titles including announcements on trade and marketing promotion, the…
Market Round-up for Corn, Cattle, Hogs and Milk
…higher to 1.225 lower. June live cattle ended at 138.05 down 1.20 while Aug live cattle were down 1.225 to 137.35. Feeders ended the session .90 higher to 0.45 lower….