Coronavirus is already shaking up the market outlook this year, but could agriculture be next? RaboBank’s Christian Lawrence says it’s very difficult to say at this stage.
Western Growers has released a Careers in Ag Job Center for careers related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics in agriculture, to promote STEM jobs in the produce industry.
Agriculture will be one of the focal points while Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are in China to resume trade talks.
China will be increasing imports of American agriculture and energy products and will seek to address U.S. protection concerns about intellectual property.
President Trump will address the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th Annual Convention next month. Ag Secretary states UDSA staffing is still lacking.
The new Dow Chemical Company to split into three division. Sonny Perdue goes on the road to talk with farmers. Taking another look at 2017 corn production lookout.
**The House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture and energy subcommittees approved bills that reject most of the cuts sought by President Trump.
The bill approved by the panel’s ag subcommittee would still cut discretionary spending at USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by $876 million from fiscal 2017 levels...