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Soybean exports drop, China as major buyer; US trade deficit hits nearly 69 billion in February.

Congress will have to extend the life of the 2018 farm law into 2024 so it can finish work on its successor.

India has formally removed retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. farm products that made almonds and walnuts from California less competitive.

The USDA’s Economic Research Service reports wholesale egg prices reached record highs in 2022 after avian flu resulted in significant reductions in egg-laying flocks.

The USDA reports the Japanese beetles trappers were out checking traps last week and discovered the first beetles in a trap near Grandview High School in Grandview, Washington.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that, after two years of bilateral negotiations, India has agreed to remove retaliatory tariffs imposed in response to the U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.

U.S. and European Union trade leaders signed the U.S.-EU Tariff Rate Quota Agreement. The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture announced its primary policy focus for 2023.

Climate change represents an “existential threat” to agriculture in California. CA Depart. of Food and Agriculture, who says 8 of 20 major crops grown in California could be most affected by increasingly hot and dry conditions.

Despite water shortages and continued drought in 2021, California farms and ranches took in $51.1 billion in cash receipts, a 3.6% increase over 2020.

Entomologists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture and the USDA have confirmed the first 2021 report of an Asian giant hornet … this time in Snohomish County.