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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
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.
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.
Updates on Elections | ‘Sue and settle’ | Trump in Iowa | Dicamba | Saudi Arabia | China | Logistics | Data mining
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.
Perdue to visit China | CBO update | Lumber dispute | NAFTA hearings | WOTUS rule | Brazil and beef | EU on trade
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.