Canada

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.

The Trump administration wants changes in the SNAP Program. NAFTA nations stressing that continuing duty-free agricultural trade is critical to their success.

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

U.S. wheat crop facing damages without a protective layer of snow. U.S. Dairy industries at odds with each other. Millennials and their food spending habits.

The U.S.-Korea free trade agreement has been a target of criticism from the White House

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

**Members of the Senate Ag Committee say they’ll need to stretch every dollar allocated in the 2018 Farm Bill. Regardless of the crops they grow, the Michigan farmers who testified at a Farm Bill hearing Saturday said a strong safety net program was at the top of their priority list...

**The FDA will have to sift through hundreds of comments containing often-conflicting advice as it tries to redefine the term “healthy” for use on food products. FDA accepted comments until April 26 and now has the unenviable task of trying to figure out how to balance the recommendations of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which emphasizes the importance of dietary patterns with Am

**President Trump has promised Wisconsin dairy farmers the administration will resolve trade inequities with Canada. Trump made his first comments condemning Canadian dairy trade policies during a stop in Wisconsin last week. In a letter to the President, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo say Canada blatantly violated international trade agreements and shut down a

**ChemChina’s $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission, on the condition that ChemChina divest three of its generic pesticides. The European Commission, the EU’s governing body, approved the deal last Wednesday...