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Trade tensions drive decline in latest export forecast

05/30/19 4:24 PM By Ben Nuelle

USDA's Economic Research Service cited trade tensions, African Swine Fever, and weak commodity prices in trimming its export sales forecast for fiscal 2019 by $4.5 billion.

Questions surround trade, disaster relief as farmers struggle to plant

05/29/19 6:45 AM By Philip Brasher and Ben Nuelle

The Trump administration’s announcement of a new trade assistance package, plus congressional agreement on disaster relief for prevented plantings, will put billions of dollars into the struggling farm economy, but the prospective aid is injecting new uncertainty into the planting decisions facing growers across the soggy Plains and Midwest.

Despite aid package, farm groups look for solutions on trade

05/29/19 6:40 AM By Bill Tomson

Farm leaders welcomed additional 'trade aid' but expressed as much uncertainty as cheer after meeting with President Trump.

Farm groups cheer aid, but want end to trade war

05/23/19 6:35 PM By Bill Tomson

U.S. farm groups are coming out in strong support of the Trump administration’s new trade assistance package to help soften the blows of Chinese tariffs, but also stress the new aid is only short-term relief and far less effective than an end to the trade war.

USDA unveils new trade aid for farmers, ranchers

05/23/19 12:10 PM By Bill Tomson, Philip Brasher, and Ben Nuelle

The Trump administration will provide $16 billion in new direct payments and other additional assistance to farmers and ranchers who have been harmed by the ongoing trade war with China and other trade disputes.

Blocked by GMO politics, African scientist turns to 1950s technology

05/15/19 6:25 AM By Philip Brasher

Africa’s uneasy history with agricultural biotechnology can be summed up by what’s growing, and not growing, on a small research farm in central Malawi, one of the poorest and most food-insecure countries on the planet.

USDA maintains corn yield trend in WASDE

05/10/19 3:09 PM By Ben Nuelle

The Department of Agriculture projects higher corn ending stocks, which would be the second largest on record behind 2016/17, in this month’s World Agriculture Supply and Demand report.

Grains Council taps Mexico director as next president and CEO

05/02/19 1:16 PM By Bill Tomson

Mexico is the largest foreign market for U.S. corn and distiller’s grains and the U.S. Grains Council has chosen its top representative there, Ryan LeGrand, to take over as president and CEO next month.

USMCA analysis shows 'slight' gains for US ag exports

04/18/19 4:24 PM By Bill Tomson

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement would be an overall win for the U.S. farm sector, reforming biotechnology and phytosanitary standards, but it would also allow for only “slight increases” in exports of some U.S. agricultural commodities, according to a 379-page analysis released today by the U.S. International Trade Commission.

WTO rules in US favor on China wheat, rice, corn TRQ dispute

04/18/19 11:49 AM By Bill Tomson

The World Trade Organization today sided with the U.S. in its complaint that China has not lived up to pledges it made nearly twenty years ago to buy billions of dollars of wheat, rice and corn through tariff rate quotas.

Beth Ellikidis, Vice President, Agriculture and Environment for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Beth Ellikidis, Vice President, Agriculture and Environment for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. The Biden administration recently announced its Bioeconomy Board, creating new products and services to boost the U.S. economy and workforce and enhance our quality of life and the environment. Ellikidis says BIO’s goal is simply to advocate for the possible. She sees products that will improve agriculture productivity while at the same time lessen the industry’s environmental footprint. Ellikidis says the nation’s regulatory structure is strained to keep up with scientific advancements provided by fast-moving private industry research.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 19, 2024: Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., on farm bill, specialty crops

California Democrat Salud Carbajal sits on the House Ag Committee and is working on his first farm bill. He joins us to discuss the latest politics surrounding a farm bill timeline and whether or not the House Ag Committee can meet a Memorial Day deadline proposed by House Ag Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa. He also discusses the challenges facing the specialty crop industry and how mechanization can be used to help workforce shortages.

Then, Dennis Nuxoll with the Western Growers Association and Tom Sell with Combest, Sell & Associates join to chat about the political environment facing a farm bill and challenges facing specialty crop producers.

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