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Agriculture markets are analyzing the outcome of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, while U.S. lawmakers are taking in the latest sign of a tumultuous political season ahead. 

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held the first of two bilateral meetings Thursday scheduled during Trump’s state visit to Beijing, in which the pair discussed increasing China’s agricultural imports. 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday confirmed a Justice Department investigation into major beef processors for potential antitrust violations and separately teased that the agency has neared a settlement in its case against Agri Stats.

Bankers in the Federal Reserve’s 11th district, which includes Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico, report “slightly worsening conditions” as drought persists and commodity prices remain low.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and a group of other Senate Democrats are aiming to break up major meatpackers by limiting them to producing meat in one category and, in the beef sector specifically, putting hard concentration caps on regional and national beef markets.