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Private exporters reported sales of 352,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Pakistan.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications from U.S. exporters for an agricultural trade mission to Manila, Philippines, July 18-21, 2022.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominees for the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board (Cattlemen’s Beef Board) to succeed 39 Members with terms that expire in March 2023. The deadline for nominations is June 9, 2022.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the appointment of three members to serve on the Popcorn Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms, immediately, to Dec. 31, 2024.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the appointment of six members to serve on the Softwood Lumber Board.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to purchase Walnuts for distribution to various food nutrition assistance programs.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to purchase Dried Fruit for distribution to various food nutrition assistance programs.
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Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a notice in the Federal Register proposing revisions to regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act (Act).
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominees for the American Lamb Board (Lamb Board) to succeed four members with terms that expire in February 2023.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it will conduct another referendum among South Texas onion producers to determine their level of support for continuing their federal marketing order.
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On April 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced increased availability of credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s (CCC) Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2022.
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United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Mexico Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development Victor Villalobos met this week to continue cooperation on shared priorities including open trade, science-based policy making, and sustainable and climate-smart agricultural production.
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Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator Daniel Whitley recently traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to kick off the first U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored in-person trade mission since November 2019.
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While in Kenya last week, Cindy McCain, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, saw how USDA’s McGovern-Dole Program has helped boost food security and educational opportunities for vulnerable children and families.
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United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today announced that the United States and Japan have reached an agreement to increase the beef safeguard trigger level under the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement.
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As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s commitment to expanding and diversifying global market opportunities for U.S. agriculture, the Department will sponsor four additional international trade missions in 2022, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today at the Commodity Classic in New Orleans.
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On March 11, 2022, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took part in a G7 Extraordinary Agriculture Ministers' Meeting convened in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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106,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2021/2022 marketing year
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264,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total, 198,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2021/2022 marketing year and 66,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2022/2023 marketing year
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Private exporters reported the following activity: 120,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to Nigeria.