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The National Potato Council is encouraging Mexico’s Supreme Court to affirm the draft ruling that would overturn Mexico’s ban on U.S. fresh potato imports.

But if the council does act at the next meeting the repeal won't happen until 30 days after the vote. So it looks like the city will be ready for cruising the avenue in 2020.

Arkansas have approved a ban on dicamba use between April 16th and October 31st. A possible merger, Archer-Daniels-Midland has sought deal talks with Bunge.

**Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt met with farmers, elected officials, and ag industry leaders last week to hear feedback on re-writing the Waters of the U.S. Rule under the Clean Water Act. The controversial rule has been put on hold by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals while strong opposition from farm organizations, home builders and others who consider it to be an ove

**The USDA continues to move forward on lifting the U.S. ban on Chinese chicken, undaunted by legislation that some say is a threat to the efforts wrapped into last week’s U.S.-China Comprehensive Dialogue. A key item in that conference was China’s agreement to lift its ban on U...

**The House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture and energy subcommittees approved bills that reject most of the cuts sought by President Trump. The bill approved by the panel’s ag subcommittee would still cut discretionary spending at USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by $876 million from fiscal 2017 levels...

SEATTLE (AP) — A suburban Seattle city council member has announced an initiative to ban safe-injection sites in King County for heroin and other drugs. The Seattle Times reports the proposed initiative announced Thursday requires signatures from 47,443 valid county voters to qualify for the November ballot...

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has issued a new memo to ban non-essential state-funded travel to North Carolina because he says that the state's repeal of its so-called "bathroom bill" is still allowing discrimination against gay, lesbian or transgender people...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state House has approved a measure that would ban holding handheld devices while driving. The measure passed the Democratic-controlled chamber on a 63-35 vote Wednesday. It now heads back to the Republican-controlled Senate for concurrence on some changes made in the House...

**Six months after China announced its intention to lift its ban on U.S. beef, the two countries remain far apart. Hopes are high that President Trump will be able to break the logjam when he meets today with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Florida, but even if the two agree, there’s still a lot of work remaining to restore trade...