…expected in the years ahead. The U.S. and Canada also benefit from free trade preferences under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has paved the way for significant…
NMPF, USDEC Organize Dairy Fly-In on Capitol Hill to Build Support for Trade with Canada, Mexico
…Perdue, Acting U.S. Trade Representative Stephen Vaughn and White House agriculture advisor Ray Starling. “Canada’s new Class 7 milk pricing scheme unfairly undercuts U.S. dairy exports to Canada and around…
Organic Wine Study-Price or Taste?
…more than 400 premium red wines from 50 wineries in Italy and sold to Italian and American consumers. 31 percent of the wines used were organic; about 42 percent of…
Commerce Department to End Mexican Sugar Dumping
…The department will impose duties on Mexican sugar imports beginning on June 5, unless the two countries can come to an agreement. Phillip Hayes, a spokesman for the American Sugar…
Argentine Lemons Entering U.S. Market Despite Objections
…Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service comes only days after President Trump’s meeting with Argentine President Mauricio Macri. Hear from California Citrus Mutual President Joel Nelson “I am extremely disappointed…
Monsanto Terminates Sale of Precision Planting to John Deere
…planting systems. The technology allows farmers to plant crops like corn, soybeans, and other row crops at twice the speed of a conventional planter. The case had been scheduled for…
Ag Lender Survey: Farm Profitability Down, Commodity Prices Top Concern
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Brazil Looking at Tariffs on U.S. Ethanol Imports
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Canada/Mexico Doing NAFTA Renegotiations “Together”
…American corn producers are looking on nervously. The Mexican Ag Secretary recently led a tour of his country’s corn importers to Brazil and Argentina as part of a plan to…
Groups Want Checkoff Reform
…to the programs. The legislation comes in two separate bills introduced in both chambers. The “Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act” would put an end to the most egregious abuses…
NFU Calls on FTC to Oppose ChemChina Acquisition of Syngenta
…alarmingly for American farmers, it further consolidates the international agricultural inputs sector. The FTC should reject ChemChina’s proposed purchase of Syngenta,” Johnson concluded. Share this Post Independent Voice for California:…
Conaway Disappointed Cotton, Dairy Farmers Left in the Lurch
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International Trade and Deforestation: Potential Policy Effects via a Global Economic Model
…South American and Southeast Asian countries have emerged as major exporters of “forest-risk” commodities (primarily beef, palm oil, soybeans, and forest products), often produced on newly deforested land. This land…
Ag Secretary Perdue Moves to Make School Meals Great Again
…so that schools can serve meals that are both nutritious and palatable. We don’t want kids wasting their meals by throwing them away. Some of our schools are actually using…