…“The United States can’t sit on its hands when it comes to trade. Opening new markets, such as Argentina, and expanding existing markets is imperative.” From National Pork Producers Council…
Farm bill discussions will affect all Californians
…expand access to developing foreign markets. Those programs lead to jobs in rural California but also in urban settings such as ports, marketing firms and export companies.” Discussions of farm-bill…
Groups React to Farm Bill Proposal
…FMD outbreak in the United States, which would prompt countries to close their markets to U.S. meat exports – thus creating a surplus of meat on the domestic market –…
Chairman Conaway Introduces the Agriculture and Nutrition Act
…been cut in half. Natural disasters and global markets distorted by predatory trade practices of foreign countries, including high and rising foreign subsidies, tariffs and non-tariff barriers, have resulted in…
GOA Issues Report on Cattle Markets
A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows supply and demand factors, such as a drought that affected the price of cattle feed, affected changes in prices of fed…
Marfrig Becomes World’s 2nd Largest Beef Processor
…beef markets in the world, we will reach extremely sophisticated consumer countries and we can grow by maintaining strict financial discipline.” The company’s slaughter capacity will total 8.3 million cattle…
USDA and SBA Join Forces to Help Rural American Businesses
…rural businesses in providing tools to export products around the world. SBA Administrator McMahon says as small businesses continue to rise, it’s important to create a better environment to help…
National Groups Respond to Proposed Chinese Tariffs
…necessity, patient and optimistic. We know markets ebb and flow. But China’s threatened retaliation against last night’s U.S. tariff proposal is testing both the patience and optimism of families who…
More California Reactions to Chinese Tariffs
…secure and grow new Chinese markets. The increased tariffs impact four of California’s top five agricultural exports to China, including pistachios, almonds, wine, and oranges and orange products. These four…
Loss Of Foreign Workers Would Hurt Agriculture
…increasingly unable or unwilling to do strenuous agricultural work, a decline in immigrants going into rural labor markets and an unemployment rate hovering near 4 percent (most economists consider 4…
USDA Highlights Feedback from Stakeholders in Review of Livestock Mandatory Reporting Program
…with reporting livestock and meat markets to help identify program improvements and promote an orderly reauthorization of LMR in 2020. Through a series of stakeholder meetings, AMS identified, and in…
Farmers Outline Harm from GIPSA Withdraw
A lawsuit brief filed on behalf of poultry farmers details the alleged harm from the Department of Agriculture’s GIPSA rule withdrawal. The Organization for Competitive Markets claims the Trump administration…
U.S. Dairy Export Council Seeks Market Growth in China
The U.S. Dairy Export Council Monday announced a partnership with a university in China to grow U.S. exports in China. The Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jiangnan…
Chinese Tariff Increase Will Be Tough on California Ag
…“Previously, the U.S. position had been focused on opening markets through negotiations.” Officials in Beijing had previously warned the U.S. about increasing tariffs last month. Several agricultural associations are concerned…