trans pacific partnership

President Donald Trump officially pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact the Obama administration spent years orchestrating in order to give the U.S. a new leadership role among Pacific Rim countries. Trump signed the executive order Monday leaving the remaining 11 TPP countries with an uncertain future...

Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is emerging as President-elect Donald Trump's selection for agriculture secretary, but no official announcement has been made. A source close to the transition team confirmed media reports Monday that Trump had settled on the 70 year old Perdue, who served two terms as Georgia governor, from 2003 to 2011...

Data from a new survey released by the Census Bureau shows why Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign could have concluded, erroneously in hindsight, that she could win without appealing to voters in rural areas and small towns. President-elect Trump got about two-thirds of the votes in rural counties and counties with cities under 50,000...

The Senate passed a short-term fiscal 2017 spending bill to avert a government shutdown and then gave final congressional approval to a water projects bill that includes drought relief for California farmers. The new measure, which the Senate approved 63-36 about 11 p...

Cannabis and its supporters are on the march after voters in eight more states decided on Election Day to legalize the herb for recreational or medical purposes, pushing it even further into the mainstream of American farming. But another type of cannabis also is gaining ground, albeit with less attention, and some farmers are starting to take notice...

Around 30 farms in southeastern Alberta, Canada are under quarantine as Canada attempts to track down cattle exposed to bovine tuberculosis (TB). CBC News of Canada reports the investigation stems from a U.S. Department of Agriculture notice in September that a cow from Alberta tested positive for bovine TB at a U...

Starting November weight parameters for CME feeder cattle contracts and the CME Feeder Cattle Index will increase 50 pounds on both ends of the range—from 650-849 pounds to 700-899 pounds—. “Glynn Tonsor, agricultural economist at Kansas State University was quoted in Beef online as saying that producers will “need to account for it when considering use of historic basis relationships...

Slickspot peppergrass a plant that lives on about 60,000 acres of sagebrush-steppe habitat in southwestern Idaho, will once again be considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Gov. Butch Otter, R-Id., challenged that decision in federal court, and in 2012, a judge threw out the listing after finding that FWS had not properly defined the phrase “foreseeable future” with respe

Monday’s Farmland Rental Report by Rabobank's Sterling Liddell stated that affordable cropland isn't just something that could improve producer margins; it's something that is an absolute necessity, Land valuations and rental rates need to be decreased over the course of the next two years to compensate for decreased commodity prices and tighter profit margins...

The U.S. and Brazil have agreed to allow access to each other's beef markets after more than a decade of negotiations. Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply has agreed to imports of U.S. beef for the first time in 13 years the USDA announced Monday...