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Mexico is the largest volume destination for U.S. pork exports and the third-largest export market for U.S. beef.
Following the trade aid announcement earlier this week, farmers were left with more questions than answers.
A key deadline is set to lapse Monday that could lead to permanent U.S. tariffs on Mexican tomato imports, with costs potentially hitting American consumers when the weather turns cold later this year.
EPA on Friday granted 31 more controversial waivers allowing refiners for forgo blending requirements of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
For the past two years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing small refinery hardship waivers, which allow the awarded refiners to forgo blending ethanol with their fuels.
Farmers’ discontent over President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China erupted into the open Wednesday as his agriculture secretary was confronted at a fair in rural Minnesota.
Farmers in the crowd did not find the joke funny, but it did inspire farmers watching from afar to share their own ag jokes on Twitter.
While the payments are a blanket rate by county, there’s no blanket suggestion on what farmers should do with those funds.
The Chinese government has asked its state-owned enterprises to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products.
Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas will not seek reelection in 2020.