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Brazilian soybean producers want to keep the recent gains they’ve made in the Chinese market even as U.S.-China relations improve. 

Beekeepers and producers of commodities including garlic, mushrooms and crawfish would get payments to compensate them for dumping of products from foreign competitors, under legislation introduced today in the Senate.

A bipartisan group of senators is challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration underpinning his “reciprocal” tariffs on almost every U.S. trading partner.

The Trump administration’s pick for the top trade position at the Agriculture Department told senators that penning international trade deals will be key to reducing the agricultural trade deficit and spurring U.S. exports. 

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says USDA will assess market losses from President Donald Trump’s tariffs closer to harvest and then provide aid to producers if it’s necessary. 

The House is on track to debate the GOP’s massive budget blueprint next week. The House Rules Committee is scheduled Monday to prepare the budget resolution for floor action, although it’s not yet clear that Republicans have nailed down the votes.

East Coast dockworkers agreed to end their two-day strike after coming to a “tentative agreement on wages” with the United States Maritime Alliance, the International Longshoremen’s Association and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday. 

USDA is using a pair of funding rollouts to invest Inflation Reduction Act dollars aimed at increasing the availability of domestic biofuels.

Four senators introduced a bill Friday to double funding for two popular ag export promotion programs that proponents say play a key role in boosting sales of U.S. cotton, meat, wheat, corn, soybeans and other farm commodities to foreign buyers around the globe.