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Just how bad is African swine fever in China? Despite fewer reported outbreaks, experts say the ASF death toll in China is higher.

The markets absorbed an onslaught of information recently when USDA released the delayed and current WASDE numbers AND the Crop Production report.

Microsoft's commitment to closing the rural broadband gap with a significant infrastructure boost. ‘Microsoft Airband Initiative’ plan to get broadband in rural areas.

Mexico has jumped up the tariff tax rate to 25% in responds to Trump's tariff on steel and aluminum. The tariff hits U.S. steel and farm products.

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.

Brazil's tariffs on the U.S. is getting heat from the Trump Administration. Montana wildfire displaced thousands of cattle.

**Japanese purchases of U.S. beef are about to be subject to a 50% tariff after imports in the three-month period ending June 30 triggered a “safeguard” mechanism.
A Japanese spokesman says imports of frozen beef in its fiscal first quarter exceeded the amount required to …

**Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue has given the go-ahead for emergency haying on Conservation Reserve Program lands to help provide feed for livestock in drought-stricken areas of Montana and North and South Dakota.
Perdue authorized emergency haying to begin over the weekend, two weeks ahead of the normal…

**The U.S. seems to have the upper hand in the sugar dispute with Mexico because, according to industry officials, its refiners would be happy to get their needed imports from elsewhere.
The U.S. is demanding Mexico agree to a new suspension agreement that limits the amount of Mexican sugar exports i…

**USDA is putting a hold on regulations in the National School Lunch Program requiring less salt and more whole grains in cafeterias.
At an elementary school in Leesburg, Virginia, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue also said USDA will lift restrictions to allow schools to serve flavored, 1 percent milk inste…