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The Washington Farm Bureau’s Mike La Plant says one of the best parts of 2019 from an Ag perspective is, the year is almost over.   The WFB President said this has been a challenging year for growers across the state.  He said weather was very challenging with the February blast of winter east of the Cascades, to dry conditions across western Washington throughout much of the year, and a cold wet

Late last week, the Chinese government stated that the U.S and China had reached an agreement to begin rolling back tariffs after a phase one trade deal is signed.  That statement led to some optimism and a jump upward in financial markets.  ...

Some are concerned it could be some time before a trade deal between the two largest economies is announced.  This after members of the Chinese trade delegation abruptly left the U.S. last week, following trade talks in D.C.  That delegation was scheduled to stop in Montana and the Midwest.  While the Am...

In an effort to educate consumers about the importance of international trade and retailers, the Washington Apple Commission has launched a series of videos.   The series is divided into nine segments highlighting Trade, Technology, Food Safety, Journey of an Apple, Marketing Washington Apples, Integrated Pest Management & Organics, Lifecycle of an Apple Tree, History of Washington Apples and

With so much trade uncertainty, the Philippines is a welcomed market, especially for American Red Meat.  Joel Haggard, U.S. Meat Export Federation senior vice president recently return from the Philippines where he participated in the World Food Expo, or WOFEX.  ...

According to the U.S. Apple Association, apple exports dropped 27% from 2017 to 2018.  That announcement came Thursday during the organization’s annual Crop and Outlook Marketing Conference in Chicago.   USApple officials said due to growing trade tensions and escalating tariffs from top export countries, the overall farm gate income for U.S. apple grower...

The first round of the Market Facilitation Program is underway.   “We expect up to 14.5 billion in dollars in payments will go to producers that have been affected by unwarranted retaliatory tariffs on US farm production,” said Farm Service Agency Administrator, Richard Fordyce. He noted thi...

President Trump is asking Japan to purchase U.S. farm products as the two nations seek a small trade deal including agriculture.  According to Reuters, Trump asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to buy a “huge amount” of U.S. wheat and soy...

The USDA is out with its most recent exports numbers.  Those figures take us through June and so for the first 9 months of this 2019 fiscal year.   “We have exports at 103 billion dollars down 6.9% from fiscal year 2018,” said USDA Trade Economist, Kamron Daugherty.   He noted dur...

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers recently announced a partnership with SkillsUSA to lessen the manufacturing skills gap.  The partnership seeks to engage member companies with their communities and school children to develop opportunities in the skilled trades of equipment manufacturing.  ...