Ag News

• USDA Reports Preview A Potentially Explosive Report
• Washington Insider — Monday Wall Street Journal Recession Warning
• EPA Grants Exemptions Agency Grants Small-Refinery Exemptions, Points to Work on E85, Atrazine
• 3 Big Things Today, August 12
• USDA Expected to Lower Corn, Soybean Crop Guesses
• U.S., China Trade War Persists as Markets Adjust and Farmers’ Concerns Grow
• Democrats Appeal to Farmers on Climate Change
• USDA Invests in Rural Electric Infrastructure Improvements in 10 States Including Texas
• Farm Loan Payment Delinquencies At Six-Year High
• New Statuatory Requirements for Wind Leases in Texas

• Some FSA Offices Unable to Process MFP Applications
• Biden: Trump’s trade war pushing farmers to bankruptcy
• DTN Cotton Close: Higher on Chinese Sales
• Farmers Vent – Ag Sec. Perdue Listens – DTN
• EPA Stands Behind Glyphosate: Herbicide Product Labels Containing Cancer Warning Won’t Be Approved
• Weekly Export Sales – Tracking China’s Footprints
• Rolling Out the Farm Safety Net
• AccuWeather Predicts The Lowest U.S. Corn Yield In Seven Years
• Soybeans Rally 17¢ Thursday
• Wheat: Reduced Production Estimates Boost Russian Export Prices
• China Bought U.S. Ag Goods Ahead of New Tariff Talk
• Federal Reserve Ag Credit Surveys- 2019 Second Quarter Farm Economy Conditions
• Ag Groups Call for Regulatory Transparency on Gene Editing
• U.N. Agency Issues Report On Ag’s Role In Climate Change
• Five Things To Avoid When Using Public Wi-Fi
• A Look at How USDA Acreage Surveys are Conducted

• Perdue, Peterson Seek to Tamp Down Producer Concerns
• Farm Show Allows Some Venting
• Biodiesel Fraud Identified Early, But EPA Alleges Auditor Dropped Ball
• Acreage Unknowns Create Uncertainty Around Corn Supply and Demand
• U.S. Immigration Agents Arrest 680 Workers at Mississippi Plants
• 6 Common Traits of a Successful Rural Community
• USDA Disputes OIG Review
• FSA Gearing Up for MFP2
• Bayer to Start Outcome Based Pricing
• Cargill Releases Survey on What Consumers Want
• Peanut Loan Rates Announced
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• Farm Policy Facts Editorial:
  The Bitter Impact of Foreign Farm Subsidies
• China Investing in Brazil Ag
• Soy Leader Say China Can’t Fulfill its Needs With U.S. Imports
• 3 Big Things Today, August 7
• China’s Trade Damage to Ag Is Done, It’s Time to Force a Deal, Analyst Says
• 9 Things Every Landowner Must Do Before Renting Land
• U.S. Farmers Believe in the U.S. Economy, Uncertain on Trade, Survey Shows
• Brownfield meteorologist: not much optimism in weather forecast
• Ag Economy Barometer: producer sentiment is up
• USMCA ratification represents certainty farmers need
• USDA: farm land values rise
• China Revokes Tariff Eemption on Soybeans
• Texas: Randall County Ag Day and Crops Tour, Canyon, Aug. 27
• Cargill Releases Survey on What Consumers Want

Press Release:
August 6, 2019

The Agricultural and Food Policy Center, or AFPC, at Texas A&M University, College Station, named Dr. Bart Fischer as co-director beginning Sept. 1. Fischer comes to AFPC after serving more than eight years at the House Committee on Agriculture as chief economist under two chairmen, Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma and Rep. K. Michael Conaway of Texas. For the past two and a half years, he also served as deputy staff director. Read the entire article.

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• Bill to aid family farmers passes Senate, House
• Reactions to Family Farmer Relief Act of 2019
• China Halts Purchase of U.S. Farm Products
• Crop Progress Report
• S&P 500 Plunges as Trade War Escalates
• Washington Insider — Tuesday Escalating the Tariff Fight
• China Investing in Brazil Ag
• Brazil Considers Dropping Barriers to U.S. Ethanol
• Growing Sorghum this Year? 5 Tips for Sucessful Harvest
• Work on USMCA to Continue Through August Recess
• USDA may have broken law in spending on agency relocations, OIG finds
• Texas Cotton: Harvest Aids – The Art and Science
• Texas Wheat: AgriLife ‘Top Picks’ Varieties Updated