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Animal right group collected over 660,000 signatures for a California initiative requiring egg-laying hens to be “cage-free” and will also effect pork and veal.

Unemployed rate has hit a near 44-year low and H-2A visa requests have more than doubled. Immigration reform bills making their way to the House floor this week.

The Chinese tariffs will be going into effect in July. The NFU wants the Dept. of Ag. to get a farm bill that protects against severe market and price swings.

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.

Oregon businesses returned from China with specific goals like helping to connect Oregon food and beverage businesses interested in exporting products to China.

China countering U.S. protectionism "to the end, and at any cost," over proposed tariffs. Years of work to achieve U.S.-grown rice access to the Chinese market.

Dairy farmers handling a drop in milk prices, are now bracing for proposed tax on steel. Monsanto reports disappointing sales and earnings of its second quarter.

A2 Milk now has competition from Nestle, moving to sell A2-protein only baby formula in China. China plans for retaliatory tariffs against American soybeans.

Consumers might be getting their beef comes from cells grown indoors. Capitol Hill warnings that the new duties will spark a trade war with China.

China is making its retaliation list and checking it twice, targeting ag products. The Humane Society of the U.S. is facing charity oversight groups pushback.