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Lawmakers return to Washington and President Donald Trump travels to Beijing as snarled trade flows dim the outlook for worldwide energy and food supplies. The Senate Agriculture Committee examines elevated fertilizer prices on Tuesday, while the House is expected to vote on a bill to allow year-round E15.

USDA drops two of its most anticipated reports at noon — Grain Stocks and Prospective Plantings — offering fresh numbers on crop supplies and early acreage intentions. Both can move markets, and both land before growers know what the weather will bring.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in mid-May after a planned meeting for the end of this month was postponed.

As the administration's new tariff instruments begin to take shape, they offer clues as to how the administration plans to wield tariffs in the second year of Trump’s term.

The Senate confirms a package of nearly 100 nominees to fill administration positions, including the top ag negotiator and three of President Donald Trump's picks for the Agriculture Department.

Whole milk would return to school lunch cafeterias under a bipartisan bill set for final congressional action this week in the House as lawmakers wrap up their work for the year. The Senate is expected to confirm the Trump administration’s top agricultural trade negotiator.

The Trump administration may announce payments to struggling American farmers this week, with producers and lawmakers eager for details on how the aid will be handled. The Senate faces a partisan showdown on extending expiring health coverage subsidies and will consider several nominations important to agriculture.

 On the first day of a three-day public hearing, ag industry representatives described how, for some commodities, the deal has been a boon to U.S. ag exports, while others face existential threats from rising Mexican imports.

A marathon three-day hearing on the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement kicks off today, with testimony from agricultural groups.