Over the next week, Iowa's agriculture secretary will lead a trade mission to Mexico, hoping to increase exports of Iowa products and agricultural goods.
By JOSH FUNK, PAUL WISEMAN and JOE McDONALD, AP Business
President Donald Trump likes to joke that America's farmers have a nice problem on their hands: They're going to need bigger tractors to keep up with surging Chinese demand for their soybeans and other agricultural goods under a preliminary deal between the world's two largest economies. But will they really?
Japan’s Parliament has approved a trade deal that was agreed upon by President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this year.
The act, would implement a voluntary stress management training program to major agriculture as well as devote $3 million to create a public service announcement campaign.
In Benton County Iowa, there are several thousand acres of seed corn and Shannon Moeller with the Iowa Seed Association checks out oats and rye cover crops starting to grow.
The Farm Service Agency is expanding its payment options, debit cards and Automated Clearing House debit will both be allowed as paperless payment options to pay farm loans, measurement service fees, farm program debt repayments, and administrative fees.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told nervous Midwestern farmers on Wednesday that he's confident that they'll eventually regain the markets they've lost in the Trump administration's trade war with China.
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and BALINT SZALAI, Associated Press
The Trump administration's Market Facilitation Program is meant to compensate farmers for income they've lost due to the U.S. trade war with China. Data provided to The Associated Press from the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Freedom of Information Act gives some insights into where the money goes.
Iowa experienced scattered storms across the State that delivered high winds and hail slowing down field work. But there were still about four and a half days for work.
Agriculture groups are pushing for Congress to pass the U.S. Mexico Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA), which will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Spring has arrived and farmers are getting ready to start planting in the next month. And with wet soils across Iowa, farmers are also on the lookout for early plant diseases.
An Iowa-based community activist organization and a Washington-based environmental group have filed a lawsuit against the state of Iowa and several state agencies alleging they have deprived residents of their right to clean water by failing to adequately regulate pollution from hog operations and crop farms.
Between 2017 and 2018, U.S. ethanol consumption dropped for the first time in a decade and the Renewable Fuels Association says that's because of the Environmental Protection Agency hurting demand.
A federal judge has approved an extension of settlement talks in a lawsuit claiming a soybean seed company purposely sold faulty seeds to black farmers in Mississippi.
