Stresses are mounting for North Carolina farmers, who are suffering from a string of problems: storms, tariffs, trade wars, low prices, bad public relations. Experts say they would benefit from counseling.
National business leaders watching President Donald Trump fight with Democrats fear their chances of securing the newly revised trade agreement with Mexico and Canada is slipping away.
Excitement is high for Argentina farmers who are looking to bounce back from a dry year and take advantage of new interest from Asia for their soybeans as the US and China fight over trade
Many of those feeling the greatest pain from tariffs the United States and China have put on $50 billion of goods are rural Trump voters who helped him win Missouri by nearly 20 points in 2016.
The US Supreme Court won’t reconsider a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision about Fish and Wildlife’s No Otter Zone off the coast of Southern California that pitted wildlife advocates against commercial fishermen.
In two of Washington state races in the midterm elections, Democrats are seeking to paint GOP opponents as enablers of Trump’s trade policies. Those policies threaten the state’s exports, worth $78 billion yearly, they argue.
The United States, Mexico and Canada agreed on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement just ahead of the midnight deadline imposed by the U.S. The agreement gives U.S. farmers greater access to the Canadian dairy market.
The Trump administration agreed to allow tens of thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of Canadian engineers, doctors and nurses working in the United States to keep their visas as part of a new trade pact, a revision of NAFTA.
Kansas exported $2.5 billion of goods to Canada last year. A new trade deal between the United States and Canada will provide Kansas farmers and businesses certainty, state officials say.
Congress is poised to continue spending $25 million a year into finding a way to stop citrus greening. But some on the farm bill conference committee want to eliminate the special category created for citrus research.
Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s budget director, is trying to use his influence to help a South Carolina business that could be badly wounded by the president’s trade policies.
The United States, Mexico and Canada agreed on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement just ahead of the midnight deadline imposed by the U.S. The agreement gives U.S. farmers greater access to the Canadian dairy market.
