The previously rumored key management team at USDA has now been formally nominated and thus headed for consideration in the Senate. Nice Rice Deal The Trump administration racked up another victory on the trade front – getting another step closer to the U.S. industry making rice shipments to China. Beijing signed off on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) protocols, although it now wants to conduct plant inspections and ensure there is adequate trapping for pests. Rice is not exactly biologically-active food like meat, but the U.S. industry has to be tickled pink. Rice is a treasured and highly protected crop in most Asian countries. It is highly unusual for the U.S. industry to be able to move product into major markets there without quanti...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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