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It is always important to know who is telling what regarding potential Trump administration policy moves.
Details on renegotiation of the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) agreement will come between now and the first week of May, President Donald Trump pledged today.
A Senate vote today on Sonny Perdue as the new USDA Secretary and a White House agriculture-related meeting on Tuesday are the key focus items for the week ahead.
The slow-then-fast Congress is in a likely short-run fast period, so here are some updates of some policy issues of note.
“Do not open the farm bill” is the mantra when the farm sector wants no changes. But when they do want changes, a must-have bill is the vehicle for change.
President Trump’s proponents keep saying to read the president’s book, The Art of the Deal. Is that in the non-fiction or fiction section? Or perhaps the alternative non-faction category.
A Mexican lawmaker wants to ban the import of corn grown in the United States.
Lawmakers reached a budget agreement for the remaining months of Fiscal Year 2017, which ends September 30. Cotton and dairy farm program language did not make it in the final budget package.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue’s speech was not his “first major farm policy address”, as he spoke mostly “from the heart” and not from the 17 pages he said some staff had written for him.
The House is out but the Senate is in during a relatively quiet week ahead for Washington.