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As the week begins, Brian Splitt, a broker with Allendale Inc., and Tommy Grisafi, branch broker of Advance Trading, are talking to AgDay host Clinton Griffiths to discuss what they’re watching in commodity markets. 

North Korea | Japan | Ross in Asia | U.S. China ag trade dispute | Steel trade | NAFTA 2.0 | Health care | Tax reform | Markets

Trump to give tax reform address in Indiana on Wednesday

Final ruling not expected until 2019 or 2020

Health care vote? | Budget | Tax reform | Nominations | Alabama election | SEC | Disaster hearings | Supreme Court

Some initial agreements, but thorny issues will linger

North Korea | Iran | Trump trade policy | KORUS | NAFTA 2.0 | China trade policy | Populist tide growing | Hurricane aid | Puerto Rico | Export programs | Net worth | Rail problems | Cotton AWP | Markets

Iran | Maria | Harvey | Farm bill | Fed | Bank of Japan | Tax reform | Senate health-care bill | NAFTA 2.0 | China responds to Lighthizer | CFTC | Antitrust group | Hack at SEC | CETA | Crop insurance | Markets

Trump at U.N. | Iran nuclear pact | Fed meeting | Hurricane Maria | USDA nominees | U.S. ambassador to Russia | Health-care bill | Tax cuts | Guest worker proposal | EPA IG report | Markets

Trump at U.N. | USDA nominations hearing | Lighthizer warns on China | USTR blasts WTO rulings | Iowa nixes hog, cattle reg push | Transportation

Wall Street Journal report puts focus back on climate accord

Trump at U.N. | FOMC | USDA nominees | House out; Senate departs Wed. | NAFTA 2.0 | WTO

North Korea | Clovis | NAFTA 2.0 | Yellen | FMD vaccine | Tax reform | Nutrition Facts | FDA hurricane update for farmers | Trucking 'e-logs' | Congress' $10 bil. ATM | SNAP bonuses | WOTUS | Cotton AWP | Markets

North Korea | DACA | Heitkamp | Tax reform | Infrastructure | SNAP | Canada rail | EU and GMOs | Trump blocks China firm | Nominees | Ross to China | EU trade | NAFTA 2.0 | Grain shipping costs | China data | Markets

USDA nominees get hearing | Estate tax | Glyphosate | Florida citrus | China ethanol | U.S.-China ag trade dispute | U.S.-Canada lumber dispute |Icahn | Debt limit | Dow-DuPont | CEA | FSA certified acres | Markets

North Korea | Tax reform | National debt | Irma update | Disaster aid | Logistics update | KORUS | Sen. Hatch | ObamaCare | Transportation safety | Brexit | La Niña | China corn | Markets

Irma update | Market impacts | Poultry industry | Europe ‘tax equalization’ proposal | Car industry

Tax reform | USDA reports | House spending bill | Perdue talks to NFU, goes to New Orleans | Trade policy | Trump to meet Malaysian PM | 9/11 anniversary

Irma update | North Korea | Trump signs aid, funding, debt ceiling package | Ross on trade policy | Ross on other issues

North Korea | Budget, aid, debt limit bill | Hurricane Irma | Earthquake in Mexico | Trump poll | Perdue meets Ag panel leaders | USDA reorg | Fed | Ethanol and Brazil | Dicamba | Cotton AWP | China economy | Markets

North Korea | Fed leader | Inflation | Harvey impacts | Trucking costs | White House reverses on KORUS | GMO label study | DDGs | Irma | Trump deals with Dems | Ag trade | Soymilk | Menendez | Amazon | Deere and robots

USDA nominees | Harvey aid | Debt limit | FY 2018 spending | KORUS | Biodiesel | Fed officials | North Korea | Trump, congressional leaders to meet | Irma | China on trade protectionism | DACA | NAFTA 2.0

Congress returns | North Korea | Harvey aid | Stopgap spending bill | Debt limit | Trade policy

Seeking initial $7.85 billion as a down payment; $14.55 billion total request for now, much more later

List includes three key USDA nominees

Another Trump threat to withdraw from prior trade accord

President Trump condemns 'hostile' move; Treasury secretary proposes cutting of all trade with countries that trade with North Korea

Harvey update | Shipping & Harvey | MPP opt out | Aug. jobs report | Brazil corn to Japan | Cotton AWP | More E15 waivers | NAFTA 2.0 talks resume | Debt-limit hike | SPR tapped | Tax reform | Fed meeting | Border wall

New option shows need to improve dairy policy in coming new farm bill.

Harvey update | Congress and Harvey aid | Tax reform | Perdue on NAFTA | North Korea | EU & glyphosate license | RFS comment period ends today | E15 waivers | Egypt wheat import policy | Biodiesel

Tax reform | North Korea | Harvey update | Japan baking execs in N. Dakota | Icahn resurfaces | U.S.-China ag trade dispute | Mexico and NAFTA 2.0 | U.S. ports increase traffic | U.S. ag trade forecasts raised

North Korea | Harvey update | EPA audits administrator | Food companies & steel | Brazil ethanol | Canada lumber duties | Biotech labeling | NAFTA 2.0 | Mexico & China | CSX rail service issues | Tyson Foods | India

Harvey impacts mount | Tax reform | Employment | NAFTA 2.0 talks resume

Harvey update | Yellen, Draghi to speak | Dairy safety net | Crop insurance | U.S.-Canada lumber dispute | Trump comments on debt-limit debate | Tax reform | Major food retailers face stock collapse

Trump and Congress at impasse | Central banker confab | Canada, Mexico and NAFTA 2.0 | Brazil ethanol import tax coming | Argentina mulls biodiesel situation | Clovis not in clover

Chip Flory has a tight grip on agriculture’s tape measure. When an army of 150 scouts from 12 countries marches across U.S. farmland with ropes and smartphones, Flory knows there is a meticulous method to the madness.

Trump: Withdrawal from NAFTA ‘probably’ will happen | South Korea pushes back on reopening KORUS | Trade restraints imposed on imports of Argentine, Indonesia biodiesel | EU probe of Bayer-Monsanto deal

U.S. takes on China at WTO | Biodiesel trade decision | Tax reform options | Immigration reform | Debt ceiling hike | NAFTA 2.0 | OPEC | Solar eclipse

Congress continues on its summer recess with attention this week focused on a central banker confab and the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.

Trump woes continue | Lots of action on U.S. trade policy | Fed's Yellen to speak Aug. 25 | U.S. farmers want action on CSX delays

Pro Farmer's Jim Wiesemeyer comments on progress needed to move NAFTA 2.0 forward.

Stark contrast in U.S., Canada & Mexico NAFTA 2.0 comments | Canada and dairy | Bannon fires off on China, trade and N. Korea | Chicken imports from China | WOTUS Rule comment period extended

Parsing the FOMC minutes

NAFTA 2.0 talks begin | Trump issues executive order on infrastructure | DOJ settles Calif. farmer WOTUS case | Dicamba update | IMF ups China economic forecast, with a warning

A Canadian perspective on NAFTA.

NAFTA 2.0 timeline murky as negotiators from three countries must clear sensitive trade policy hurdles

Full agenda when lawmakers return | U.S.-N. Korea | Trump briefing | NAFTA 2.0 talks | Trade action on China | FOMC minutes | Deere earnings

Trump doubles down on N. Korea comments | More legal U.S. farm labor: report | More U.S. food products could be going to China via Alibaba product | IEA boosts world oil demand forecast

Innovative approach to farm labor | Sugar and new farm bill | Funding Trump's border wall | China wants to boost livestock, dairy output | Sen. Menendez trial | India's biofuel policy | Pink slime and green dollars

Farm bill timeline murky | Only one farmer safety net? | Dairy policy awaits USDA decision | Higher CRP maximum acres | Crop insurance tweaks