More than 60 companies and organizations representing American dairy farmers and cheese makers commended President Donald Trump this week for his efforts on equitable trade and for insisting that Canada halt its market-distorting dairy practices. At the same time, the companies urged the administration to reconsider its imposition of new tariffs on Mexico in light […]

The pork industry is taking a one, two punch following President Trump’s latest announcement to implement tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico, Canada, and the European Union. On Tuesday Mexico levied punitive tariffs – 10 percent effective immediately, escalating to 20 percent – on unprocessed pork (not including variety meats) in retaliation. Mexico’s […]

Organizations along the North American wheat value chain sent a letter to President Trump, President Peña Nieto, Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as with lead negotiators from each country, Ambassador Lighthizer, Minister Freeland, and Minister Guajardo, stressing the importance of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the wheat industry. Ranging from seed to […]

Last week the USDA finalized a regulation that will allow all Mexican states to export pork to the United States, a move supported by the National Pork Producers Council. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is implementing a science-based risk assessment that determined Mexico is free of Classical Swine Fever (CSF), highly contagious […]

To assist with rescue and relief efforts, Monsanto is donating $100,000 in response to the 7.1 earthquake that struck Mexico City on Tuesday, Sept. 19. At the same time, the company is exploring how to offer support in communities and agricultural areas in the path of Hurricane Maria and other recent storms. The first $50,000 […]

NAFTA re-negotiations should aim to modernize the agreement, rather than dismantle it. That was the message the American Farm Bureau Federation, The Canadian Federation of Agriculture and Mexico’s Consejo Nacional Agropecuario sent to Canadian, United States and Mexican government officials this week. The AFBF, CFA, and CNA agree that agriculture represents one of NAFTA’s biggest […]

A Los Mochis, Mexico district court judge’s ruling to continue the ban on U.S. potatoes across most of Mexico ignores science and directly threatens the role of the Mexican plant health regulatory authority, SAGARPA. According to the National Potato Council, the ruling contradicts the conclusions of SAGARPA, USDA, and third party experts that have reviewed […]

U.S., Mexico, and Canada’s agricultural leaders discussed everything from trade and markets to research and collaboration this week at their first trilateral meeting in Savannah, Georgia. Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay; Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food Jose Calzada; and United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued […]

In response to today’s announcement by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Mexico’s Minister of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal on the successful conclusion of the Suspension Agreements on Sugar from Mexico, influential members in agriculture gave their nod of approval. Secretary Sonny Perdue had this to say: “This agreement protects American workers and consumers […]

NAFTA has been a boom for Nebraska’s farmers and ranchers, according to Governor Pete Ricketts. That’s why the U.S. must maintain a strong partnership between the U.S. and Mexico. “Bilateral trade with Mexico has helped grow agriculture in our state over the years,” said Governor Ricketts. “Mexico is Nebraska’s largest export market for corn, dairy, […]