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The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture announced that Ted McKinney is the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. The group said he will lead NASDA in amplifying the voice of state departments of agriculture in Washington, D.C., s ...

While much of the attention of the farm community, and the world really, was on coronavirus, trade took place over the past year. And specifically Ag trade. Much of that focus over the past 12 months was on new trade agreements between the U ...

Before the global pandemic, USDA and its Trade and Agricultural Affairs Mission Area planned to conduct eight trade missions in 2020. Those all, in the in the traditional person to person meeting and product demonstration sense, were postponed ...

USDA  Undersecretary Ted McKinney recently addressed the Phase One trade agreement with China, and where he sees it going into the future. "Phase One is a two year agreement and even though the federal government just started its new fiscal year on October one, the purchases through and including December 31st is what counts for phase one year one." ...

It may have been lost in the shuffle of this year's pandemic, but the U.S., Canada and Mexico were able to update their trilateral trade agreement.The updated NAFTA now known as USMCA, and it sits well with USDA's Ted McKinney. "I'm a believer that the USMCA is very very good and it's something that can be sustained," McKinney noted ... Read More ...

June 1st, that the date the Trump Administration has targeted for USMCA implementation; now that the Canadian Parliament has ratified the updated NAFTA. Canadian approval was the final step taken among the three-member nations to ratify the new trade agreement ...

USDA Undersecretary Ted McKinney is always looking for additional trade opportuniteis for American producers. In fact, he was in Britain last month.  "When I arrived I was to meet the minister of Ag which would be my counterpart, the Undersecretary, that night he was elevated to the secretary so we had the change to be the first to meet the secretary. He ...

USDA Undersecretary, Ted McKinney, said he believes the Phase One Trade Deal with China, in his words "has traction" and will last. "It really wasn't going to get going until the lunar New Year was over anyway that was delayed by an extra week so we're not so far behind despite coronavirus," McKinney recently said while speaking to the National Association of State Directors o

The African continent is being pursued by U.S. trade leaders as a potential location for agricultural export growth.  The first location American leaders are looking, is Kenya.   “It's going to be a historic and difficult conversation,” said Gregg Doud with the U.S. Trade Representati...

The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service was busy looking for new trade opportunities in 2019.  Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney said the agency fought throughout the year to unlock new export opportunities for U.S. agricul...