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Big debate over how to alter dairy program
Watergate-aura atmosphere among big media outlets in competition to score scoops
Canada, Israel leaders visit White House | Yellen | New farm bill
Duties would primarily target agricultural products
By Ruramiso Mashumba: Marondera, Zimbabwe The average African farmer is a 60-year-old man who took up agriculture because that’s what his parents did. I’m a woman who, in her mid-20s, chose
Key issues ahead: Cotton, generic base acres, dairy, ARC
Court challenge on immigration, refugee order | Cabinet | USDA reports
Data provides first look at jobs market in 2017
By Reg Clause: Jefferson, Iowa I’m worried about soybeans. We grow them on my farm in Iowa, along with corn and cattle. As the planting season approaches, however, I’m not sure how to handle my soybe
Commerce Secretary-designate responds to trade policy questions
Trump inauguration | Obama’s last press conference | Nomination hearings | Yellen
By Hope Pjesky: Goltry, Oklahoma President Obama mentioned trade only once during his farewell address on Tuesday night: “I agree that our trade should be fair and not just free.” In a speech that
Trump spokeswoman says announcement will be made soon
By Tim Burrack: Arlington, Iowa President Trump took his time to choose a nominee to head the Department of Agriculture, and he picked a good one: Sonny Perdue, a former Governor of Georgia who grew up on a farm, beca
Cabinet votes, hearings | Trump meets with UK PM | GOP retreat
Shift in CBO projections includes assumption of producers shifting toward PLC program after 2018 crop year
Final determination due in February
By Ravichandran Vanchinathan: Tamil Nadu, India Half a century is a long time, but that’s how long I’ve been thinking seriously about India’s struggle with food security—and how technolog
Part of ‘exit memo’ process by outgoing Obama Cabinet
Program acreage at 23.464 million in October
By Daniel Kelley: Normal, Illinois A century ago, war raged across Europe. Millions of soldiers and civilians died in the epic conflict of World War I. In the first year of the fighting, however, something re
Trump to meet next week with Elsa Murano, former president of Texas A&M Univ., and former USDA official
Harvard-trained economist Peter Navarro is a fierce China critic