POLICY

It’s an historical day for the United States as the first round of negotiations to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), got underway Wednesday morning in Washington D.C. In effect since January 1994, NAFTA created a Free Trade Zone between Canada, Mexico and the United States. President Donald Trump has called the trade pact “the worst trade ever made by any country.”

John Duarte is a California farmer who took on the federal government and lost.

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NAFTA 2.0 negotiations begin this week in Washington. The hoped-for conclusion will not be as quick as some want, nor take as long as some observers predict. But a long list of policy hurdles is evident.

Certainly, nobody wants a repeat of the 1980s farm crisis. But what can be done to prevent it from happening again?

Insurance plays a special role in one of America’s most precarious—and dangerous—industries.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says the United States’ current farm-labor visa program is “essentially unworkable.”

Business, agricultural and education groups are joining forces to expand Nebraska’s reach into international markets that generate billions of dollars annually, Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Thursday.

In 2013, the Chinese firm Shuanghui received wide public attention when it purchased U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods for a record $4.7 billion. That purchase was just a part of a continuing surge in foreign investment in American farmland and food that has raised concerns in Congress and among rural advocacy groups.

Target matches current quota set by Obama administration.