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With the new Monsanto acquisition, Bayer has reduced its expected earnings. USDA was working to make the department the entry point for H-2A applications.

Great first quarter news as the U.S. Meat Export Federation reports beef export value set a new record in March at $693.1 million, up 18 percent year-over-year.

Argentina's worst drought in decades is sending grain prices soaring. Bayer is delaying the closing date of its acquisition of Monsanto.

**Brazil has agreed to impose an import tax on U.S. ethanol, a move criticized by U.S. ethanol leaders. According to Brownfield, the Renewable Fuels Association’s Bob Dinneen, Growth Energy’s Emily Skor, and the U.S. Grains Council’s Tom Sleight issued a joint statement Wednesday saying they are disappointed to see the ruling by Brazil’s Chamber of Foreign Trade to impose a 20-percent tariff on U.

**China’s competition authority has approved ChemChina’s proposed acquisition of Syngenta, according to both parties in the deal. That follows the conditional approval of the U.S. and EU competition authorities last week and Mexico’s approval this week...

**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...

It has been reported by numerous media outlets (including The Tennessean and Forbes) that a popular dollar store has just purchased another popular dollar store for $8.5 BILLION dollars. This means that there's a high possibility that the larger store will adopt the price points that the other store employs: not every thing is a dollar there...