Smithfield Foods files paperwork for an initial public offering in the US #pork #hogs reuters.com/business/retai…

Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise' reuters.com/sustainability…

Surging corn prices trigger spate of sales from US farmers - reuters.com/markets/commod…

Trump Treasury pick Bessent says, if confirmed, he would begin pushing for #China to adhere to purchase commitments under Trump's Phase 1 #trade deal

Trump's pick to run the USDA, Brooke Rollins, led an organization that opposed ethanol mandates and farm subsidies, major programs she could influence if confirmed, according to a Reuters review of the group's policy statements. reuters.com/world/us/trump…

China's suspension of five Brazilian #soybean exporters to last 2 months, says Brazilian official via Ana Mano reuters.com/markets/commod…

Trump #tariffs to stoke US #food inflation despite pledge to lower costs reuters.com/markets/us/tru…

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. has stopped purchases for foreign food aid programs since the Trump admin began a review of federal aid spending, despite a waiver issued nearly two weeks ago for food assistance, nine sources tell me, lisa baertlein and Tom Polansek. reuters.com/markets/commod…

The Trump administration's dismantling of USDAID halted work at a network of farm research laboratories at land grant universities in 13 states, according to six lab directors. Our (Leah Douglas and my and Tom Polansek's) latest on Reuters reuters.com/world/us/cuts-…

Canceled meetings. Unpublished reports. State officials in the dark. Federal staff anxious that information isn’t getting out. The first weeks of the Trump administration have disrupted the U.S. bird flu response. My latest with Tom Polansek: reuters.com/world/us/us-bi…

"Corn is winning the acreage battle" US farmers plan to plant more #corn and fewer #soybeans this spring, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs, via Julie Ingwersen reuters.com/markets/commod…

Trump tells US farmers that tariffs on "external product" are coming and they should get ready to produce agricultural goods to be sold INSIDE the US

Trump trade war dries up sorghum sales to China but US farmers plan to plant more - reuters.com/markets/commod…

US #beef off the menu as the trade war hits Beijing's American-style restaurants #TradeWar #China reuters.com/markets/commod…

Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of US aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to people familiar with the matter. The food came from US farmers and manufacturers. reuters.com/world/us-aid-c…

US cattle ranchers slowly start to rebuild decimated herd - reuters.com/business/envir…

Ranchers in central Mexico are discovering screwworm fly maggots burrowed in their cattle for the first time in a generation, sounding the alarm for Texas cattle ranchers who worry the parasitic flies will eat their livestock alive reut.rs/3Hndx3v