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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
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
Waiting on Trump’s USDA selection | Yellen to speak | USDA reports
By Pierre Munyura: Kigali, Rwanda Americans like to know the stories behind their coffee. This is one of the surprising facts I’ve learned on my visits to the United States, from my coffee farm in south
Here we go again! Interest rates, interest rates, interest rates. The biggest source of speculation at a Fed meeting - whether or not the board will decide to raise interest rates, which it has done only once since 2006
Congress adjourns | Stopgap spending, WRDA bills cleared | FOMC | Trump Cabinet
Mixed views on whether tax would materialize or if U.S. companies/states might pursue climate goals even if US pulls out of deal
Some sources starting to shift prior outlook; others say issue tied to tax reform
Stopgap spending bill | WRDA | Cabinet members | USDA reports
Nonfarm payrolls up 178,000 while unemployment falls to 4.6%
By Richard Fordyce: Bethany, Missouri Earlier this year, Missouri-based Martin Rice Company sent a 20-ton container of rice to Cuba—the first shipment of rice from the United States to Cuba in eight years.