Items Tagged with 'ag trade'

The Trump administration’s pick for the U.S. candidate to helm the World Food Program has laid out his case in an op-ed for Newsweek, arguing he can “unite member states.”

The Trump administration said Friday that a new trade pact with India will reduce tariffs on dried distillers’ grains, red sorghum, tree nuts, fruit, soybean oil, wine and spirits and other agricultural products.

The United States will lower tariffs on India as part of a trade deal announced Monday by President Donald Trump that also includes Indian purchasing commitments, few details of which were released. 

In a wide-ranging interview at the American Farm Bureau convention, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden told a jam-packed room of farmers  U.S. agricultural interests are “missing the ball” with so much focus on China and should instead be more concerned about Brazil as a competitor and culprit for low U.S. commodity prices.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says USDA officials are keeping a watchful eye on commodity markets as they weigh how much help farmers may need this fall to keep their operations afloat.

Flood control projects underway * Port fees get tepid response * Trade frictions could hinder innovation

Oliver Ward has joined the Agri-Pulse editorial team as the digital media firm’s international trade editor.

The value of U.S. agricultural exports over the past four years is 28.5% higher than when Joe Biden became president, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and USDA announced Monday. 

The National Council of Agricultural Employers is seeking information on $98 million provided to the UFW Foundation to distribute to farmworkers, alleging that some of the workers claimed they were told they had to sign union authorization cards in order to receive the money.