The European Union and the United States could soon be reviving negotiations of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the weekend said reducing the trans-Atlantic trade deficit in goods is a top priority....
Grassley on TaiwanThe key U.S. Senator blocking a bilateral trade deal with Taiwan for years is dropping his long-held insistence Taiwan first end its ban on ractopamine-treated U.S. pork, before talks can begin. For years, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley went to bat for...
Over the weekend, the White House promised an executive order for agriculture. In a memo to reporters, the White House press office said President Donald Trump would hold a roundtable discussion with farmers on Tuesday and also sign an executive order to protect and...
Sonny PerdueThe U.S. Senate voted Monday evening to confirm Sonny Perdue as Agriculture Secretary, just shy of 100 days after his nomination announcement by then President-elect Donald Trump. The Senate voted 87 ? 11 to confirm Perdue. The White House said Perdue...
Lending activity at agricultural banks across the country continued to decline in the first quarter of 2017. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says economic conditions in the farm sector are still weak, so borrowers and lenders have worked together...
Since you are reading this and it is past April 22, that means you survived another Earth Day. But, how many more Earth Days can we survive? Many of the envirowacks who have made Earth Day a high holy day like to tell us that unless we change the way we live, the end...
Bower Trading Market Strategy Report: The Lull Before the StormJim BowerIf you are looking for dynamic market action, you are not going to find it in the agricultural markets, says Jim Bower, with Bower Trading, ?The commodity index is down at levels we have not seen...
The Environmental Protection Agency will be in Washington, D.C. Circuit Court starting Monday, as the court hears oral challenges to the 2014-2016 Renewable Fuels Standard Volumes. The RFS has supporters and detractors in both major political parties, so this case...
Don?t get impatientDavid CosgrayFieldwork and planting progress was good early this week, but rain over much of the state on Thursday brought that activity to a standstill. DuPont Pioneer agronomist David Cosgray reminds producers it is still early in the season, ?The...
Active weather continuesMonday?s crop progress report showed Indiana corn planting four percent completed and that number will surely grow in the next report as farmers grabbed opportunities to plant this week. But a round of rain Wednesday and Thursday, including...
