Consumers Missing in Tomato Spat: U.S. Commerce Undersecretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez told reporters that the antidumping dispute on tomatoes was between growers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and not between the governments. On that basis, the party lacking participation in the dispute is the people destined to pay higher prices as a result of any negotiated settlement: consumers.Demandeurs Extraordinaire: A group of African countries are suggesting that the Doha agenda needs "symmetry" between its demands and offerings. They suggest that symmetry looks like the following: African countries get to impose special and differential treatment protection against imports, while rich countries provide "new and additi...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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