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Mandatory budget cuts including agriculture subsidies are likely to be proposed this week via President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposals and, more importantly, by the House Budget Committee.

The try-to-take-and-run maneuvers made by two northern-state senators against U.S. cotton producers continue to generate barbed but on-the-mark responses from other key lawmakers.

The Employment report numbers today gave the Federal Reserve most if not all the reasoning it needed to boost interest rates in June.

Financial and commodity traders typically do not like to follow policy-related developments, until they either cost them money or make them profits.

Key USDA positions are set to be announced.

The latest newsletter has details on the pork industry, trade developments and much more...

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

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

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