Round five of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks are set to begin Friday (11/17/2017) in Mexico City. However, Politico points out that talks will unofficially begin Wednesday…
Ethanol Industry Wants Brazil Status Suspended
The U.S. Ethanol industry wants U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to suspend Brazil’s designated country status under the Generalized System of Preferences. The groups want Lighthizer to make the move…
U.S. Gets WTO Win on Indonesia’s Beef Import Requirements
…Meat Export Federation says the WTO report found that all 18 of the import measures challenged by the U.S. were inconsistent with WTO rules governing trade. The ruling marks the…
Organic Livestock Rule Delayed Until January
…poultry that will produce meat to be labeled “Certified Organic.” The USDA announcement says during the course of reviewing the rule, officials discovered a material error in the record and…
Register for the Western Alfalfa and Forage Symposium
The 2017 Western Alfalfa and Forage Symposium at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada is happening Tuesday, November 28 through Thursday, November 30. The theme of this year’s event…
PBW Program Highlights Pest Pressure in Cotton
…of Silverleaf Whitefly (SLWF) among other pests. The information released includes all the samples collected during the 2017 cotton growing season. Data that was comprised comes from samples from PBW…
Leftover Produce Accounts for a Fifth of All Food Waste
…wasted foods were dairy and eggs at one percent, along with meat and fish which were responsible for three percent of weekly food waste totals. The amount of food that…
Water Managers Prepare for New Rainfall Season
The state finds itself in an improved water-supply position going into the 2017-18 winter, thanks to the precipitation and snowpack the previous winter that filled reservoirs, topped rivers, replenished aquifers…
Cautious Optimism Ahead in Grain, Ethanol Markets
…wheat market. Soybean farmers are chasing Brazil, the world’s top supplier, but growing demand for livestock feed will help sustain growth. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
USDA to Measure Final 2017 Row Crop Production and Grain Stocks with Two End-of-Year Surveys
…due by December 21, 2017, and NASS publishes results in the Crop Production 2017 Summary report on January 12, 2018. Information collected in this survey also feeds into the county…
Record Corn Yield Underscores RFS Success
…means the 2017 corn crop would be 14.6 billion bushels, nearly 300 million bushels larger than expected just last month. “In 2005, the year the RFS was enacted, corn yield…
USDA Invests in Integrated Pest Management for Increased Production
…adopt IPM practices and reduce pesticide use. In the fiscal year 2017, 77 awards totaling $27.6 million were made by the following programs to support IPM projects. The awards were…
China Online Mall To Buy Large Amounts of Beef and Pork
…to witness the signing ceremony. Meat products are a fast-growing category for JD. In the first half of 2017, volume from direct sales of meat on JD increased more than…
Agri View: Pork Does What?
Everett Griner talks about pork, and some of the other uses we have for it besides meat on the table in today’s Agri View. Everett tells us how pork is…