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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.

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.

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.

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.

Details on renegotiation of the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) agreement will come between now and the first week of May, President Donald Trump pledged today.

A Senate vote today on Sonny Perdue as the new USDA Secretary and a White House agriculture-related meeting on Tuesday are the key focus items for the week ahead.

The slow-then-fast Congress is in a likely short-run fast period, so here are some updates of some policy issues of note.