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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
Action continues in Washington despite a Senate GOP leadership pullback of its health-care reform measure.
Brazil ethanol, Argentine biodiesel factors behind RFS delay
It took far longer and several false starts, but the U.S. and Mexico on Monday finally signed amendments to a sugar deal brokered between the two countries, the Commerce Department announced.
Trump and Putin | Yellen | CBO baseline | Conaway budget deal | Perdue in China | U.S. rice to China | U.S.-Mexico sugar deal | N. Plains drought | Menu labeling | U.S.-Japan trade | Debt limit | India poultry
Congress is out for the week while President Trump travels to the G20 summit in Germany
Marketing year average price for wheat, oats came in under reference price; barley prices just above
Fed leader Yellen testifies before Congress; President Trump is in France. House action on FY 2018 spending bills, including agriculture and immigration enforcement funding. Health-care reform still a Senate focus.
Updates on North Korea, trade policy, 2018 House elections and other key policy topics.
Trump meets Putin | Dicamba ban vote | Syngenta | Trade policy | Budget markup next week | Food industry mega changes | Renewables best nuclear energy
U.S. employers accelerated their pace of hiring in June, a sign of labor market growth eight years into the economic expansion, but wage growth numbers disappointed.
With just three weeks before the long August congressional recess, lawmakers face a daunting list of hard-to-get issues like health-care reform and a House budget resolution.
Health-care reform and budget resolution delayed | House to cut transportation funding | Emergency haying allowed on CRP land | Group wants quick action on Argentine biodiesel | WOTUS rule hurdle
The Federal Reserve today released minutes from its June 13-14 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, with several major items remaining in the murky category.
EPA proposed to reduce the volume of biofuel required to be used in gasoline and diesel fuel next year as it signaled the first step toward a potential broader overhaul of its biofuels program.
North Korea’s successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile is the major focus of world leaders.
Sen. McCain has a brain cancer, more USDA sub cabinet nominees, House budget resolution goes to the floor amid vote hurdles, and President Trump blasts off in an interview with the New York Times.
A proposal to replace an Obama-imposed WOTUS rule should be out by December, according to the first federal regulatory agenda issued by the Trump administration, but no word on when the repeal will take place.
Senate panel approved an ag spending bill for fiscal 2018, including language requiring genetically engineered salmon be labeled and allowing cotton growers to qualify for commodity support programs.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen is testifying today before the House Financial Services panel.
Congress is starting to move fiscal year 2018 spending bills, including Agriculture and EPA funding.
President Trump nominated Stephen Censky as USDA deputy secretary and more subcabinet nominees are likely in the weeks ahead.
Corn, soybean and wheat futures saw sharp pressure at midday. We cover crop condition ratings, USDA reports... and much more.
House committee action on a budget resolution, a deferred Senate vote, again, on the lingering health-care reform bill, and NAFTA 2.0-related developments are the focal points in Washington this week.
Addressing trade issues and provisions to bring down the U.S. trade deficits with Mexico and Canada have been released by the Trump administration as objectives to improve NAFTA.
Updates on ag spending and SNAP cuts, budget resolution, U.S.-China meeting, biodiesel tax incentive bill and more key policy topics.
Clovis officially nominated for key USDA post | Commerce Secretary Ross comments on several trade issues | FOMC statement today | Farm bill timeline | Biofuels
NAFTA concerns mount as USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue is in Mexico and USTR Robert Lighthizer comments on trade with China and on NAFTA.
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
House out, Senate in | Employment report | White House upheaval | Farm bill listening sessions
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.