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Florida’s citrus growers still recovering from Hurricane Irma’s unprecedented damage. NCBA CEO Kendal Frazier as the first Ag Association Leader of the Year.

**The USDA says milk production in the top 23 states during April was nearly 17.2 billion pounds, up 2% on the year. The average production per cow was a new monthly record and up 20 pounds from last year at 1,967 pounds per cow, while the milk cow herd jumped 81,000 head from a year ago, to 8...

**Syngenta shareholders have accepted ChemChina’s $43 billion offer to buy the company, tendering more than enough shares to allow the transaction to go forward. Syngenta announced Monday that “based on preliminary numbers, around 80...

**China’s competition authority has approved ChemChina’s proposed acquisition of Syngenta, according to both parties in the deal. That follows the conditional approval of the U.S. and EU competition authorities last week and Mexico’s approval this week...

**ChemChina’s $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission, on the condition that ChemChina divest three of its generic pesticides. The European Commission, the EU’s governing body, approved the deal last Wednesday...

More than 300 groups are asking newly confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to thoroughly investigate, and then stop, the proposed mergers involving six major ag chemical companies. In a letter sent Monday, the groups said “The proposed mergers of Dow Chemical with DuPont, Monsanto with Bayer, and Syngenta with ChemChina are each problematic on their own, with many likely negative impacts on fa

It is becoming harder and harder for small Ag companies to compete in light of all the mergers and acquisitions. Privately held Land O’Lakes, best Known for its Purina brand pet foods, and line of dairy products bought the St. Louis Park, Minnesota, breeding and biotech firm called Ceres, that markets seed products under its Blade brand...

A new study says federal cooperative extension programs at land-grant universities help farmers stay in business. The researchers say since 1985, 137,000 farmers would have left the industry without the federal program. The study says cooperative extension and agricultural research translate into higher farm profits, allowing farmers to stay in agriculture...

As food companies are preparing to comply with the Vermont GMO labeling law, many other states are now considering their own GMO labeling laws including Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Those bills largely mirror the Vermont law...

U.S. lawmakers are pushing for USDA to have a formal role in considering ChemChina's planned takeover of Switzerland's Syngenta.  Sen. Chuck Grassley says the $43 billion takeover of Syngenta could pose risks to the security of America’s food supply...