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The turbulent Trump administration continues following the unexpected firing of FBI Director James Comey.
The try-to-take-and-run maneuvers made by two northern-state senators against U.S. cotton producers continue to generate barbed but on-the-mark responses from other key lawmakers.
The Employment report numbers today gave the Federal Reserve most if not all the reasoning it needed to boost interest rates in June.
Despite a downbeat first quarter of 2017, “most” Fed members indicated that if economic results unfolded as they expect, it would “soon” be appropriate to take another step to tighten monetary policy.
If Congress and lobby groups have taught us anything in over 40 years of watching them, it is that most never want to reduce spending taxpayers’ money; in fact, they usually want increases.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue appeared Wednesday before the House Agriculture Committee to discuss the state of the rural economy. Panel members asked him about several farm and trade policy issues.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he is “puzzled” by markets ignoring political risks, with market focus on such events heightening at “the last minute.” It’s tick-tock time.
Mandatory budget cuts including agriculture subsidies are likely to be proposed this week via President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposals and, more importantly, by the House Budget Committee.
Financial and commodity traders typically do not like to follow policy-related developments, until they either cost them money or make them profits.
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Both the House and Senate are out for a Memorial Day break, so the focus will be on the White House.
Economic activity continued to expand at a “modest or moderate pace” from early April through late May, though not all Federal Reserve districts shared that sentiment, according to the Beige Book.
Getting NAFTA renegotiations with Canada and Mexico completed by January 2018 marks the “best window” for the discussions to conclude, according to US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Imagine if the average Chinese person were to consume just a single pound of U.S. beef per year.
Lawmakers return from the Memorial Day break with heavy attention on the coming testimony of former FBI Director James Comey, while infrastructure is the White House focus.
U.S. sugar producer and processor lobbyists won a lot in the revised sugar trade suspension agreement with Mexico, despite U.S. interests withholding support.
Update on key energy, trade and farm policy issues.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue appears before a Senate Ag Appropriations panel and another key hearing by the Senate Intelligence panel on the Russia situation are key agenda items this week in Washington.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would support a plan backed by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to provide a tax credit to biodiesel producers rather than to fuel blenders.
A defense spending markup, a Georgia House election, more details regarding President Donald Trump’s trade policy agenda and a Trump visit to Iowa are the key items on this week’s agenda.
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The wait is over as Republican leadership finally released their version of health-care reform. It is similar in some ways to the House-passed measure, but differs significantly in other ways.
Consumers are expected to see supermarket prices in 2017 steady to 1 percent higher than 2016 when they fell for the first time since 1967, according to USDA’s Food Price Outlook report.
Grain and soybean futures ended the overnight session lower amid profit-taking and forecasts for rains
The Trump administration is showing that it is using agricultural trade to start opening markets to U.S. products, with last week’s tentative sugar accord to Mexico and now a beef trade protocol with China.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) held a hearing on legislation that would ease restrictions on the sale of gasoline blended with at least 15% ethanol, but it is a measure he opposes.
The congressional baseball game played Thursday is an apt focal point to what is right and what is needed not only in Washington but throughout the nation.
A possible Friday Senate vote on health-care reform and House votes on two bills that would crack down on illegal immigration are the focus in Congress in the week ahead.
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