Clovis officially nominated for key USDA post | Commerce Secretary Ross comments on several trade issues | FOMC statement today | Farm bill timeline | Biofuels
Sen. McCain helps defeat GOP health-care plan | Japan takes action on frozen beef imports | Meat industry warns about KORUS rewrite | Carl Icahn and RINs | Another farm bill listening session
Timelines presented for tax reform and a new farm bill, an EPA hearing on RFS mandates, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross pens an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on trade policy strategy.
Innovative approach to farm labor | Sugar and new farm bill | Funding Trump’s border wall | China wants to boost livestock, dairy output | Sen. Menendez trial | India’s biofuel policy | Pink slime and green dollars
Trump doubles down on N. Korea comments | More legal U.S. farm labor: report | More U.S. food products could be going to China via Alibaba product | IEA boosts world oil demand forecast