AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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Lawmakers return from the Memorial Day break with heavy attention on the coming testimony of former FBI Director James Comey, while infrastructure is the White House focus.
U.S. sugar producer and processor lobbyists won a lot in the revised sugar trade suspension agreement with Mexico, despite U.S. interests withholding support.
Update on key energy, trade and farm policy issues.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue appears before a Senate Ag Appropriations panel and another key hearing by the Senate Intelligence panel on the Russia situation are key agenda items this week in Washington.
A defense spending markup, a Georgia House election, more details regarding President Donald Trump’s trade policy agenda and a Trump visit to Iowa are the key items on this week’s agenda.
Updates on Elections | ‘Sue and settle’ | Trump in Iowa | Dicamba | Saudi Arabia | China | Logistics | Data mining
The wait is over as Republican leadership finally released their version of health-care reform. It is similar in some ways to the House-passed measure, but differs significantly in other ways.
Consumers are expected to see supermarket prices in 2017 steady to 1 percent higher than 2016 when they fell for the first time since 1967, according to USDA’s Food Price Outlook report.
Grain and soybean futures ended the overnight session lower amid profit-taking and forecasts for rains
The Trump administration is showing that it is using agricultural trade to start opening markets to U.S. products, with last week’s tentative sugar accord to Mexico and now a beef trade protocol with China.