…an executive order removing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Asia-Pacific countries, preventing billions of dollars in added exports for U.S. agriculture. In the letter, the farm…
Trump Urged To Start Trade Talks With Japan
…Asian nation for U.S. beef and pork is very strong despite Japanese tariffs and other import measures that limit market access for both products. Under terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
U.S. Rejection of TPP Creates Opportunities for Canada
Pork industry leaders from Canada say the rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by the United States could create new export opportunities for Canada’s pork producers. The Chair of the Saskatchewan…
Tomato Growers Evaluate Domestic, Export Markets
…withdrawn the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement; he also has expressed a desire to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. CTGA Chairman Bruce Rominger described that as…
Cargill Chief: NAFTA in “Good Place”
…agricultural economy.” He says new trade deals must fill the hole left by the Trump Administration’s move to exit the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He adds that it makes “no sense for…
Funding for Plant and Animal Phenomics and Microbiome Projects
…(NSF), we are able to leverage funding and enhance partnership opportunities to propel us into the future of food and agricultural science.” “These studies will lead to a better understanding…
Dairy Trade in the Trump Era
by Jim Mulhern,President, CEO of NMPF Mulhern On his first Monday in the White House, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order officially abandoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This action…
Unified Bee Health Data Key to Finding Trends
…bees. The Bee Informed program is a growing partnership that several institutions started five years ago. “The basic idea behind the Bee Informed partnership is that we want to collect…
Germany Urging EU to Speed Trade Deal Negotiations
…the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Trump is also targeting reforms to the North American Free Trade Agreement. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….
NPPC Hails Trump U.K. Trade Announcement
…Trump administration will continue trade talks with the EU through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Those negotiations have been limping along nearly since the TTIP was initiated in 2013….
Trump Trade Action Impact on U.S. Grains
…by export sales. Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. The U.S. Grains Council says these moves are…
January Cattle and Calves on Feed Review
…6 percent from December 2015. Other disappearance totaled 3,000 head during December, down 40 percent from December 2015. Read the full USDA January Pacific Region Cattle on Feed Review. (.pdf)…
Japan Hesitant to Invite China into TPP
…to save the Trans-Pacific Partnership by asking China and other countries to join in. Chile has invited the ministers from TPP countries, along with China and South Korea, to a…
Pacific Region Poultry and Egg Production Report
California Egg Production California’s egg production during December totaled 302.2 million, up 17 million from November’s production and up 13 million from December 2015. The all layers during the month…