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By Paul Yeager

Covering rural America for more than 40 years with stories of agriculture, trading, markets, futures and technology.

Opinion
New NAFTA Recognizes New Ag Technologies
Forbes - Donald Marvin
U.S. agriculture and commodity groups rightfully cheered news of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) reached earlier this year. Not only because it would continue to boost export revenues
U.S. Politics
Trump Calls China’s List of Trade Concessions ‘Not Acceptable’
The New York Times - By ALAN RAPPEPORT
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that a list of trade concessions offered by Chinese officials in recent days was not sufficient to resolve concerns about Beijing’s trade practices, suggesting
World News
Saudis Move to Counter U.S. Oil Strategy
The Wall Street Journal. - Benoit Faucon, Summer Said, Sarah McFarlane
Saudi Arabia is moving to cut the world’s oil supply after U.S. government deals allowed hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of Iranian crude to flow onto world markets, driving down prices. The deals
Domestic Violence
Trump: China is eager to make a deal on trade
thehill.com - Chris Mills Rodrigo
President TrumpDonald John TrumpAvenatti ‘still considering’ presidential run despite domestic violence arrest Mulvaney positioning himself to be …
Chuck Grassley
USDA terminates Chinese-owned Smithfield farm aid contract
Reuters - By Humeyra Pamuk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated a $240,000 purchase contract with Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods that had been awarded under the Trump administration's agricultural
U.S. Politics
Trump Says He’ll Nominate Andrew Wheeler to Head the E.P.A.
The New York Times - By LISA FRIEDMAN
Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday said he intends to nominate Andrew R. Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, to be
St. Louis
California recommends restrictions for popular pesticide
stltoday.com - By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators recommended new restrictions Thursday on a widely used pesticide blamed for harming the brains of babies. The …
South Africa
Tractor maker Deere aims to ride green revolution in Africa
Reuters - By Joe Bavier
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - U.S. Deere & Co (DE.N) expects to see demand for its farm equipment in Africa grow 8 to 10 percent annually in the coming years, driven by expansion in key markets like Ethiopia
Trump Administration
Trump Administration Wants Soybeans Included in Any U.S.-China Trade Deal
investing.com
(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration plans to push for a commitment from China to resume imports of U.S. soybeans in any trade accord reached …
Forests
California's Deadliest Fires Could Have Been Mitigated By Prevention
Forbes - Chuck DeVore
At least 63 people have been killed with 631 reported missing in the California fires as thousands of firefighters, including 200 sent from Texas as well as other states, battle to contain the blazes.
Washington State
Trade disputes have cut Washington state exports by as much as 28 percent, report says
seattletimes.com - Paul Roberts
Between April and September, according to a new report, Washington farmers and other export-dependent producers saw foreign sales plummet between 20 …
Genetics
‘Playing God’: Farm animals may soon get new features through gene editing
seattletimes.com - CANDICE CHOI
OAKFIELD, N.Y. — Cows that can withstand hotter temperatures. Cows born without pesky horns. Pigs that never reach puberty. A company wants to alter …
Globalization
The world's biggest shipping company has proof that Trump's China tariffs are battering global trade
Business Insider - Will Martin
• AP Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest operator of container ships, is once again sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump's trade war.• Third-quarter profit beat expectations, but the firm said
Forests
Explainer: Blame climate, but crowded forests also fuel California fires
Reuters - By Nichola Groom
(Reuters) - With a tweet blaming California's wildfires on "gross mismanagement of the forests," President Donald Trump dismissed the role of climate change in the worsening blazes across the U.S. West
Opinion
America Is Rejecting More Legal Immigrants Than Ever Before
The New York Times - By DAVID J. BIER
At his postelection news conference, President Trump said of immigrants traveling to the United States, “I want them to come into the country, but they need to come in legally.” Yet newly released government
Trans-Pacific Partnership
ASEAN Summit: E-commerce, competition hold up free trade deal
DNA India - dna Correspondent
Six years after talks began, leaders of Southeast Asian nations - including India - have pushed back till 2019, an agreement on a pan-Asian free …
Brent Crude
Oil Up, Oil Down
NPR - Cardiff Garcia , Stacey Vanek Smith
The price of oil had climbed aggressively from the summer of 2017 through the end of last month — but then it started falling. And falling. And falling. The price of Brent crude fell from $86 to about
Los Angeles
Leading Democrat calls for changes in new trade deal with Canada and Mexico - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times - By Erik Wasson and Andrew Mayeda
President Trump’s new trade deal with Canada and Mexico needs changes to secure support from Democrats, according to a senior House Democrat in line to play a leading role on trade policy in the new Congress.
Economy
China says talks with US on trade battle have resumed
FOX Business - Fox Business
Washington and Beijing have resumed talks over their spiraling trade dispute ahead of a meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday. The two sides are
The Future
This innovative $7,000 ‘indoor farm’ may change how America eats forever
MarketWatch - By Jeanette Settembre
Farm-to-table is taking root in corporate offices. Farmshelf, a Brooklyn-based startup, has begun selling indoor farm kits that grow food like lettuce …
Dow Jones
OPEC warns Trump about the dangers of cheap oil
CNN - By Matt Egan, CNN Business
New York (CNN Business) — President Donald Trump wants oil prices to keep plunging. OPEC is warning Trump to be careful what he wishes for. That's because low prices at the pump have cost the US oil industry
Natural Gas
Oil rebounds from steep sell-off as OPEC, partners discuss supply cut
Reuters - By Devika Krishna Kumar
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil rose about 1 percent on Wednesday, recouping some of the previous session's heavy sell-off, on growing prospects that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and
Crude Oil Prices
The oil price swings dramatically
The Economist
THE OIL PRICE was supposed to be soaring around now. With American sanctions against Iran taking effect earlier this month, exports from Iran, the …
Sri Lanka
U.S. farmers scramble to contain trade-war damage, find new markets
Reuters - By P.J. Huffstutter and Karl Plume
ADDIEVILLE, Ill.(Reuters) - Clouds crowded the Illinois sky as Nick Harre walked away from his combine at the peak of harvest to join four fellow farmers in greeting some unlikely visitors. Inside a nearby
Drinking Water
Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Drinking Water for Millions of Americans
ewg.org - rcoleman
Organisms
Scientists warned this weed killer would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway
revealnews.org - Liza Gross
This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news organization.Every August, …
Study: Following 10-year gains, SNAP participation among immigrant families dropped in 2018 - Children's HealthWatch
childrenshealthwatch.org
Iowa
Combine Rides and Denials - Will Cannon
iptv.org
We chatted with emerging farmer Will Cannon back in the spring of 2018. Now it is time to see how some of his field trials went and what it was like …
Republicans
House and Senate Return to Complete a Farm Bill?
dtnpf.com
The House Republicans are scheduled to hold their leadership elections on Wednesday. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has already said …