U.S. Ambassador Woody Johnson has said scare stories alleging a bilateral trade deal would endanger Britain’s food standards were likely “designed” by the EU to “reduce trade” post-Brexit.
China’s Vice Premier pledged to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office Thursday that China will purchase five million tons of soybeans a day from the U.S.
President Donald Trump promised farmers Monday he would keep fighting for their interests, as his ongoing trade negotiations with China continued.
President Donald Trump will address the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention on Monday for its 100th anniversary.
“Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Very good things will happen.”
The White House announced Saturday that President Trump has agreed not to further raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.
American farmers have been hit by China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. soybeans. Nonetheless, farmers are sticking by the president and his Make American Great Again agenda.
President Donald Trump criticized the government for sending billions of dollars of aid to foreign countries instead of using to help the United States.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously 11-0 on Tuesday to endorse California’s new Bay-Delta plan, which will restrict the city’s water supply. The reason: to spite President Donald Trump’s water policy.
A group of Indiana farmers cut a 60-acre “thank you” message out of their crops to praise President Trump’s recent decision to allow year-round sales of corn-based E15 gasoline.
President Donald Trump warned China on Monday against retaliating to the latest round of economic tariffs with additional tariffs of their own.
French farmers lit flares and sowed grass seeds on land bought up by Chinese firms, complaining locals are being squeezed out of the countryside by foreign investors.
Republican voters are vastly supportive of President Trump’s recent move to give $12 billion in federal aid to American farmers who have been targeted by the trade practices of China.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue wrote an op-ed explaining how President Donald Trump’s trade agenda helps American farmers.
“They are not going to win, just so you understand, we have all the cards, we’re going to win,” he promised during a roundtable discussion with Iowa business and political leaders.
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that a $12 billion farmer emergency aid plan is in the works on Tuesday to temporarily mitigate the effects of U.S. tariffs and ongoing trade negotiations.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that the Trump administration is preparing to crack down on soy and almond products calling themselves “milk.”
President Donald Trump had American farmers on his mind at the NATO summit on Wednesday, calling out other countries for trade barriers and tariffs “destroying their businesses.”
China would like to turn America’s heartland against President Trump and has aimed its tariffs to maximize damage to American farmers and Midwestern industrial workers.
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During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump discussed trade policy and vowed that the US won’t “tolerate unfair and non-reciprocal trading practices” and that the administration “will use all available authorities to protect our great farmers.” Transcript as Follows As a
President Donald Trump acknowledged that his stand-off with China on trade was hurting American farmers, but promised that conditions would change eventually.
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has dismissed claims of racism over his plan to resettle South African white minority farmers in Australia, saying he ignores the confected outrage “from some of the crazy lefties at the Guardian and Huffington Post.”
During his speech to the American Farm Bureau at its annual convention, President Trump said that “farmers deserve a government that serves their interest and empowers them to do the hard work that they love to do so much.” As a family farmer, I couldn’t agree more.
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Legislators canceled a scheduled Tuesday committee vote on the huge Agricultural Guestworker Act, and have not set a new date.
President Donald Trump welcomed agricultural leaders and farmers to the White House on Tuesday, praising them for their contribution to the United States.
American farmers have been using hacked firmware to avoid the harsh software restrictions imposed on tractors by manufacturer John Deere.
Farmers in Michigan are expressing relief that President Donald J. Trump has, through an executive order, started the process of reviewing, revising, or rescinding the Waters of the U.S. portion of the Clean Water Act that threatened to put huge swaths of land under federal control.
Farmers are applauding President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday that reverses the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, which gave the agency virtually limitless authority to regulate water on private land.
California’s crippling five-year drought has come to a temporary halt in the northern part of the state, as roughly 350 billion gallons of water came pouring into the region’s biggest reservoirs over the past few days, boosting storage to levels not seen in years.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is retiring after 24 years in the U.S. Senate — and many in California’s Central Valley are glad to see her go. The liberal Democrat had a rocky relationship with the region over water issues, especially in the last few years.
The president of the Texas Farm Bureau warned ranchers and farmers at the 83rd annual meeting that the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule for waters in the U.S., “if it’s allowed to happen, will hamstring many farmers and ranchers to the extent that it might not even be possible to farm.” Farmers and ranchers in Texas are struggling with government bureaucracy in many areas.
Outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is challenging fellow California Senator and liberal Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) over the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which emerged from bipartisan compromise in both houses.
Texas farmers and ranchers will vote on resolutions to stand-up against taking more farm and ranch lands through eminent domain for high speed rail and other construction projects during a meeting in San Antonio December 3-5. The 83rd meeting of the Texas Farm Bureau will address the challenges in agriculture and rural Texas.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made two quick stops in California on Tuesday for fundraisers, speaking on issues of particular importance to Californians ahead of a Wednesday meeting in Mexico with the President of Mexico, and Trump’s much-anticipated immigration speech in Arizona.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Louisiana’s high-volume agriculture industry is among the devastated after the southeast region of the state was soaked by overwhelming floodwaters.
On Tuesday, California’s State Senate fell four votes short of the 21 votes necessary to approve a bill that sought to eliminate Daylight Savings Time.
Republican leaders in California are stepping up calls for an investigation into Governor Jerry Brown’s potential misuse of state resources following the emergence of a whistleblower from within the state Department of Conservation.
