Articles Tagged with ''trade''

Senate Ag Committee has sends USDA nominations of Hoskins and Hutchins to the floor.

Agricultural Research Service labs and offices are being told to prepare for a funding shortfall at the end of the fiscal year that amounts to about 10% of the agency’s annual budget, ARS employees are telling Agri-Pulse. A USDA spokesperson, however, said the Department does not anticipate any funding shortfalls to occur. 

The Commodity Future Trading Commission is looking at 24-hour, seven-day a week trading. Digital asset traders are driving the idea, but grain hedgers are worried about increased price risk and costs for agricultural trades. 

A federal appeals court on Thursday stayed a decision issued  by the Court of International Trade that found President Donald Trump did not have authority to impose 10% tariffs on almost every country in the world.

U.S. trade policies are compounding preexisting economic challenges, putting farmers on course for a crisis at a scale not seen since the 1980s, American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland warned senators.

U.S. and Chinese officials have agreed to reduce sweeping tariffs applied to each other’s products for 90 days to let additional discussions play out, the White House said on Monday.

U.S. egg imports climbed even higher in March as Turkey and Mexico scaled up their exports and Brazil and Honduras sent the U.S. eggs for the first time this decade, according to Commerce Department data published Tuesday.

Triple-digit tariff hikes on each other’s imports, if sustained, are set to reshape U.S.-China trade – particularly for agricultural products, where price competition is fierce. As U.S. ag producers stare down the barrel of steep export losses, they’re hoping the high tariffs offer new opportunities in domestic biofuel that can at least soften the tariff blow. But much will depend on the policy signals from Washington, analysts say. 

A group of House Republicans is urging the president to keep U.S. ag producers front of mind as he pursues more reciprocity in U.S. trade relationships and ensure tariffs are paired with negotiations to open new markets.