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U.S. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden touts the Trump administration's trade deals with China and says the Asian nation is expected to follow through on its commitments. 

The European Council and Parliament have hashed out an agreement on the path forward for a U.S.-European Union trade pact agreed to last year. Rep. Thomas Massie’s primary loss in Kentucky has Republicans, Democrats and independents recalibrating their political assumptions as the midterm campaign season moves into high gear. 

From March 2025 to February 2026, U.S. ag exporters lost $14.9 billion in sales to China on an annualized basis due to Chinese tariff retaliation, a new study finds, with soybeans accounting for almost half of the losses. The figure dwarfs the losses recorded in the first year of U.S-China trade tensions in President Donald Trump’s first term.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making the case at the United Nations to push Luke Lindberg’s candidacy to lead the World Food Program. The International Trade Commission is grappling with whether antidumping duties on Mexican tomatoes are still necessary to protect U.S. industry.

Beijing is applying the same strategy it used to build export dominance in manufacturing industries to certain food products, analysts say, building production hubs, picking national champions and offering subsidies. The push is primarily a drive for self-sufficiency, but could also reshape regional food trade and supply chains.

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. 

China will buy at least $17 billion in U.S. agricultural commodities each year for the next three years – on top of preexisting commitments on soybeans – as part of a deal struck during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, according to the White House. In addition to those purchases, the administration separately secured commitments to revive poultry and beef exports.

President Donald Trump left Beijing on Friday with two new vehicles for cooperation with Chinese officials on trade and investments, hundreds of reinstated beef export facility registrations as well as some new ones, and the next bilateral leaders' meeting lined up. U.S. agriculture is still hoping there is more in store. 

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says Beijing will commit to purchasing at least $10 billion in U.S. agricultural products annually following President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing.

A standalone bill to allow year-round, voluntary sales of 15% ethanol fuel blends, up from the standard 10% now, is set for a vote in the House today as champions and critics of the legislation go into a final stretch of frenzied lobbying.