canada

Watch out on what you see on social media. A Facebook story in Australia about a "Cow Crusher". Someone with a whacked imagination got people all stirred up.

The drought conditions in the Midwest, pushing cattlemen to begin culling herds. Kansas counties are authorized the use of Conservation Reserve Program acres.

Two suspected credit card thieves in Canada are tasered, wrestled and falling through the ceiling tiles onto store shelves. And it was ALL caught on surveillance video for your viewing pleasure!

U.S. pork exports is growing in Central America, South America and the Dominican Republic. Thanks to the increase of consumption leading to more opportunities.

Things are speeding up. Bayer and Monsanto merger may to done earlier than expected. It could be a couple months before the actual integrating operations.

Canada and Mexico remain committed to the NAFTA agreement. Ag officials will be talking at the 22nd World Meat Congress in Dallas.

Perdue is hopeful a NAFTA agreement can be reached this year, but there are hurdles. U.S., Canada and Mexico have too much in common to allow a trade dispute.

Mexico's quick responds increase in tariffs target pork legs, apples, grapes and cheeses as well as steel products from U.S. states that supported Trump in 2016.

Republican tax plan would deliver “historic relief” for farmers. Canada escalating its trade spat by filing a WTO complaint over American duties against Canada.

The top U.S. trade negotiator opened the historic renegotiation of NAFTA last week by bluntly warning the pact has “fundamentally failed many Americans” despite its benefits to farmers and border communities and needs “major improvement.”

**U.S. Ambassador to Equador, Todd Chapman met with U.S. Meat Export Federation officials last week to discuss market conditions in Ecuador and ideas for expanding U.S. beef and pork exports to that market. Ecuador reopened to U.S. beef in 2014 following a BSE-related closure that lasted more than 10 years with prohibitive tariffs on many imported food products, including a 45 percent tariff on be

**After newly confirmed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer notified Congress last week that President Trump intends to renegotiate NAFTA, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue gave his stamp of approval. Perdue says "While NAFTA has been an overall positive for American agriculture, any trade deal can always be improved, and as President Trump moves forward with renegotiating with Canada and Mex