NAFTA

Harvey is puzzling to the US commodity market. There is some agreements to NAFTA.

Polly Ruhland has been selected to be the next CEO of United Soybean Board. Argentina and Indonesia fined on import duties on biofuels. New NAFTA agreement might not happen.

More talks on NAFTA on the way. A new face is joining the Forest Service. EPA fighting back against New York Times.

Budget Limitations is the biggest obstacle for the upcoming Farm Bill. American Foreign Service Association looking to expand ag trade. Taxes on sweetened beverages to avoid funding cuts.

The top U.S. trade negotiator opened the historic renegotiation of NAFTA last week by bluntly warning the pact has “fundamentally failed many Americans” despite its benefits to farmers and border communities and needs “major improvement.”

**President Trump last week endorsed a Senate bill for a skills-based system for immigration that could have a distant effect on farm labor because it would halve the flow of legal immigrants. The Ag Workforce Coalition says it “continues to work with key lawmakers on legislation that would address agriculture’s needs” for a legal and reliable supply of farmworkers with hopes it gains traction in

**Farmers and lawmakers say the Federal Appeals Court was wrong to keep wolves on the endangered species list. The decision handed down last week means nothing changes, and people cannot interfere with wolves attacking livestock and pets. Wisconsin State Senator Tom Tiffany says efforts to fight the problem have stalled, but hopes to turn it around and create a greater sense of urgency for Congres

**The Trump administration’s effort to write new “waters of the U.S.” regulations took a big step forward last week with publication of a proposed rule to withdraw the Obama administration’s 2015 rule. The proposal has been held up for a month due to issues with the formatting of the document...

**During a visit with Ag leaders in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week, President Trump delivered an optimistic campaign-style speeches embracing farmers and ranchers as the “backbone of America.” The president has come under fire from rural Democrats for proposed cuts in his first budget outline and for lacking specifics about plans to deliver some of his ambitious plans...

* The U.S. and Mexico announced a preliminary agreement on a new system to regulate the flow of Mexican sugar into the U.S., but the U.S. sugar refiners and farmers are not supporting the deal. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the Mexican side agreed to nearly every request made by the U...