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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.

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

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

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

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