The 2017 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show is underway in Nashville, Tennessee. NCBA kicked off the convention this week with Cattlemen’s College educational sessions focusing…
Food Producers Accelerating Exports to Mexico, Searching for New Markets
…shipments because the potential tariffs could disrupt trade. One trade expert says: “They don’t know what will happen in the next month or the next week,” adding U.S. exporters are…
House Agriculture Committee Meets
…implementation. We also recently wrapped up a two-year, top-to-bottom review of SNAP, and we examined the benefits of biotechnology, the future of agricultural trade, the importance of agriculture to our…
Border Tax Draws Concern from Seed Industry
…Trade Association’s Vegetables and Flower Seed Conference in Orlando, Florida, ASTA CEO Andy Lavigne told the Hagstrom Report the tax could burden the seed industry. He says: “A great deal…
Germany Urging EU to Speed Trade Deal Negotiations
Germany asked the European Union last week to speed-up trade talks to open trade with more than a dozen countries. The effort is aimed at boosting support for free trade…
U.K. Says Trump Ready to Begin Trade Talks
…discussing a “trade negotiation agreement” as the first step of crafting a trade deal between the two countries. The wording suggests there will be an official pledge between May and…
U.S. Dairy Companies Push Back Against Canada’s Protectionist Policies
…said Canada’s protectionist policies are in direct violation of its trade commitments under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The organizations urged the…
NPPC Hails Trump U.K. Trade Announcement
…Kingdom through a mutually beneficial trade agreement.” Weber Trump and May agreed to set up a working groups to consider ways to improve trade between the countries before the United…
Seed Trade Talks at Disney
The American Seed Trade Association’s (ASTA) 56th Annual Vegetable and Flower Seed Conference is underway at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. AgNet Media is at the convention…
Trump Trade Action Impact on U.S. Grains
Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump has already followed through with key campaign promises related to trade policy – moves that have caused concern among grain farmers whose price is being supported…
Trump Mexico Tax Would Hurt Agriculture
…a trade war. United Fresh says a 20 percent hike in the cost of foods such as bananas, mangoes and other products that we simply can’t grow in the United…
Japan Hesitant to Invite China into TPP
…standard for trade rules.” Government officials don’t appear in a hurry to begin two-way trade talks with Washington, although some officials said they can’t rule it out. The Japanese Prime…
Ag Groups Want NAFTA Gains Preserved
…to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), while preserving and expanding the gains achieved to date. “U.S. food and agricultural exports have produced a trade surplus for nearly…
Western View: Ag Secretary Perdue is a Good Choice
…war. He sounds like an excellent choice. Last December Purdue told Politico that he sees the new Ag Secretary’s job as insuring “That USDA branches across the nation are friendly…