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**U.S. Ambassador to Equador, Todd Chapman met with U.S. Meat Export Federation officials last week to discuss market conditions in Ecuador and ideas for expanding U.S. beef and pork exports to that market. Ecuador reopened to U.S. beef in 2014 following a BSE-related closure that lasted more than 10 years with prohibitive tariffs on many imported food products, including a 45 percent tariff on be

** Sonny Perdue, President Trump’s nominee for Ag Secretary, pledged to be a “tenacious advocate and fighter” for farmers within the administration and says he’ll try to address requests for help from dairy and cotton producers ahead of the next farm bill...

**Poultry producer leaders are testifying in strong support of vaccine banks. Carl Wittenburg, Chairman of the National Turkey Federation, says bird flu has become a global problem and his group supports a mandatory disease program and vaccine bank for high path A-1...