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Peterson named Wheat Leader
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) was presented Monday with the Wheat Leader of the Year Award, the wheat industry's highest public service award.
Latin America – strong market for U.S. rice
The best opportunity for U.S. rice sales in Latin America could very well come from the country that is already the U.S. rice industry’s biggest export customer – Mexico, according to a panel of U.S. and Latin American experts speaking at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in New Orleans.
Global rice market analysis and trends
Since the rapid increase in rice prices in early 2008, prices have softened with the global economic slowdown and increased production.
Zebra chip, citrus greening conference
A conference to address serious plant diseases in citrus and potato crops is drawing national and international attention, according to organizers.
Baucus introduces new bill aimed at loosening embargo
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by passing legislation that would loosen the decades-old U.S. embargo. On Wednesday (May 20), Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced S-1089, the Promoting American Agriculture and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2009. A similar bill,
Baucus bill aimed at reforming U.S. Cuba policy
The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) and USA*Engage endorsed a bill introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus - the Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2009 (S.1089) - which would facilitate U.S. agricultural and medical exports to Cuba and lift the travel ban for U.S. citizens.
Remove uncertainty from trade with Cuba
Farm-state members of Congress are trying once again to force the executive branch of the government to remove barriers to sales of wheat, rice and other U.S. agricultural products to Cuba. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and 17 other members have introduced the Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2009, legislation that would eliminate the requirement that those products be paid for by the Cuban government
Travel restrictions ease, so must trade and payment restrictions
President ObamaÂ’s action to lift travel restrictions for Cuban-American families and to allow remittances by them to Cuba are welcome steps in the process for reopening trade with an important agricultural market for the U.S. rice industry, USA Rice Federation Chairman Jamie Warshaw said.
U.S. ag trade to Cuba continues upswing
U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba reached $715 million in 2008 despite turbulent global economic conditions, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension economist.
Economic stimulus plan should help farm families, agricultural industries
The global economic slowdown may not affect agriculture as severely as it does other industries, but farm families are feeling the pinch with commodity markets and production inputs.
U.S. Wheat Associates submits trade policy priorities to USTR
Strong support for trade agreements that open market access, for lifting the embargo on Cuba, and for eliminating export state trading monopolies are among the trade policy priorities submitted recently by U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) to President Obama's transition team at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
Commissioner Staples announces vision to expand trade with Cuba
In his address at the Cuba-U.S. Relations Symposium at the University of Texas, Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples announced his efforts to expand trade relations with Cuba.
No immediate changes likely for ag sector
Likelihood of the next U.S. Congress making a mad dash to renegotiate the farm bill passed last summer is remote, but that doesn't mean agricultural interests can afford to let their guard down says Representative Mike Conaway, R-Texas. Conaway, speaking at the annual Texas Commodity Symposium recently in Amarillo, said renegotiating the farm bill ought to be way down the list. But there might be
No immediate changes for ag sector likely
Likelihood of the next U.S. Congress making a mad dash to renegotiate the farm bill passed last summer is remote, but that doesnÂ’t mean agricultural interests can afford to let their guard down says Representative Mike Conaway, R-Texas.
USA Rice says U.S. should allow hurricane relief for Cuba; Reaffirms support to end sanctions
USA Rice Federation and U.S. Wheat Associates in a letter to U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice yesterday asked that the United States “put aside political concern and ease trade and travel restriction that are denying the Cuban people the relief and assistance so critically needed” in the devastating wake of Hurricane Ike.
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