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A study in this month’s “Journal of Dairy Science,” found a “primary indicator of lifetime milk consumption is a habit developed during childhood.”

USDA’s Risk Management Agency announced changes to the Livestock Gross Margin insurance program for cattle and swine, beginning in the 2021 crop year.

A ruling last week allows the U.S. to hit European countries with $7.5 billion worth of annual tariffs in retaliation for damages done by subsidies given to Airbus.

U.S. farmers claims Brazil using government programs to push Brazilian rice into the U.S. and other countries where the U.S. fights to keep market shares.

**The EPA will write a new definition of “waters of the U.S.” rules that is less expansive than the Obama administration’s rule that the agency is withdrawing. That was the word from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Thursday in an exclusive Agri-Pulse interview...

Chief Ag negotiator for the office of US Trade, Representative Darci Vetter wants the playing field with China leveled for American farmers. The Obama Administration has accused China of failing to meet its World Trade Organization market access commitments for rice, wheat, and corn and recently issued a trade enforcement challenge...

The Doha round is arguably dead, and the United States has made clear it's going to argue that. After 14 years of trying to come together, the members of the World Trade Organization agreed to a declaration on Saturday that acknowledged many wanted to stick to the Doha framework while others did not...