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Despite a damaging heat wave, the California avocado farmers will produce a larger-than-expected crop. The avocado season officially ends at the end of October.

 
**Chinese firms claim they have purchased 700,000 metric tons of pork from the U.S. this year to meet market demand, but U.S. government data shows smaller pork sales.
According to agweb.com, weekly USDA export sales data show recent buying has increased China’s pork purchase total to around 300,000…

**Operations are returning to normal at California farms, ranches and agricultural businesses that endured public-safety power shutoffs.
The widespread outages interrupted harvest schedules for wine grapes, rice and other crops, and caused scattered produce losses due to lack of refrigeration...

President Trump is calling the still to be completed trade deal with China "the greatest and biggest deal ever made for our Great Patriot Farmers in the history of our Country."

January-August U.S. beef exports were slightly below 2018’s record pace, declining 2% in volume and 1% in value. Accounted for 14% of total U.S. beef production in August.

The U.S. and China reached a partial agreement Friday that would broker a truce in the trade war and lay groundwork for a broader deal.

**In a desperate move to make up for losses from African Swine Fever, some Chinese pig farmers are raising pigs as big as polar bears.
According to agweb.com, some of these giant pigs are crossing the scale around 1,100 pounds and can sell for nearly $1,400, more than three times the average monthly …

China has been reportedly purchasing U.S. pork AND that it’s excluding the U.S. from retaliatory tariffs. The National Pork Production Council now seeking permanent removal of those tariffs.

The final report from the Romaine Task Force, started in the wake of several outbreaks traced to the lettuce, is far from over, but recommendations could come by December.

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.