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Although U.S. President Donald Trump says he only wants to tweak trade ties with Canada, his pledge to renegotiate NAFTA to focus on Mexico is almost impossible and Canada will not emerge unscathed, Canadian officials a

The U.S. dairy sector is urging President Donald Trump to discuss Canada's protectionist milk pricing policy during Monday's meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Monday it will import 4.8 million doses of foot-and-mouth vaccine by the end of this month in an effort to prevent further spread of the viral disease.

South Korea raised the country's foot-and-mouth disease alert status to the highest level as a second strain of the disease was confirmed three days after a first outbreak was reported, Seoul's agriculture ministry said

Following a severe outbreak in 2010 and 2011, which resulted in the loss of 3.5 million animals, South Korea has mandated foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccination on most livestock farms.

South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Tuesday it will carry out a nationwide vaccination for cattle against foot-and-mouth disease by Thursday in an attempt to prevent further spread of the virus.

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture's 2017 Conference goes beyond topics like export, trade and politics, to include animal care and use of the world's resources.

South Korea on Monday confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth at a dairy farm, the first discovery of the disease in the country in nearly a year.

Dairy giant Fonterra on Wednesday raised its Australian farmgate milk payout slightly to A$5.20 ($3.97) per kilogram of milk solids, in line with its forecasts, as falling production pushed up prices.

Denmark-based dairy company Arla Foods aims to increase its investments in processing plants this year by 47 percent to 335 million euros ($357 million) as it seeks to turn more milk supplied by its farmers into higher

Fat and skim-solids basis exports for 2016 are raised on recent trade data.

There are less than two weeks in the Tom Vilsack administration at the USDA. Before he goes, the Secretary of Agriculture is leaving a "wish list" of things he'd like to see accomplished by the next he

China has increased punitive tariffs on imports of a U.S. animal feed ingredient known as distillers' dried grains (DDGS) from levels first proposed last year, potentially escalating a trade spat between the world's two

U.S. dairy organizations and the state departments of agriculture across the country today told President-elect Donald Trump that Canada's existing and soon-to-be-expanded protectionist policies are intentionally

The National Milk Producers Federation joined 15 other farm organizations in sending a letter to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Michael Pence highlighting the importance of trade to America'

China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd has offered to buy out China Modern Dairy Holdings Ltd for $826 million in a deal that will help it secure a stable supply of raw milk.

For all the talk about the US trade deficit, agriculture is one industry where the US has a trade surplus - in FY2016, we exported $129.7 billion while importing $113.1 billion of agricultural goods.

France's Lactalis, the world's largest dairy firm, said on Tuesday it was launching a buyout offer for shares in Italian group Parmalat it does not already own, with the aim to delist the company from the Milan stock ex

Dairy giant Fonterra said on Wednesday its milk collection in New Zealand fell 5 percent during the peak production month of October due to wet weather, a potential boost to prices.

French food company Danone lowered its 2016 sales growth forecast on Monday, blaming tough market conditions in Spain and problems with a relaunch of its Activia yogurt brand.

Australia is betting big on China's thirst for clean milk.

The arctic air that has chilled large swaths of the northern United States for days will culminate this weekend with dangerous cold in Montana and North Dakota as heavy snow falls in other parts of the country, official

China Huishan Dairy suspended trading on Friday after a report from U.S.-based short-seller Muddy Waters questioned the firm's profits and said it had inflated spending on its cattle farms to artificially raise capital

Dairy giant Fonterra said on Thursday it had established a 1.5 billion yuan ($216.36 million) multi-currency facility with the Bank of China , the first of its kind for New Zealand.

The Vietnamese government will likely fail to sell much of the 9 percent stake it has offered in dairy firm Vinamilk, one of its most attractive assets, with investors put off by highly restrictive investment caps and u

The new chief executive of Australia's largest dairy processor Murray Goulburn said on Monday his first priority will be to restore the trust of the cooperative's farmers angered by a late cut to milk prices.

European and U.S. government and trade officials say they have been lobbying hard against a draft Chinese regulation on food imports, worried it would hamper billions of dollars of shipments to the world's No.2 economy

The United States has been shipping an eye-popping amount of soybeans lately, but this year's high expectations render the current export pace as nothing out of the ordinary.

Chinese police have arrested 19 people for repackaging and selling expired dairy products originally from New Zealand giant Fonterra Co-Operative Group Ltd, a Shanghai regulator said on Monday, the latest food scare to

Global dairy prices rose in an overnight auction on Tuesday paring losses from the previous auction earlier this month, and adding to economists' expectations prices are recovering as supply tightens.

Supporters of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) are increasingly concerned that the window to tap into new Asian markets is closing.

France will supplement a set of European subsidies announced last month to encourage milk producers to cut output and reduce overproduction to avert a collapse in prices, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said on Tu

Lactalis, the world's largest dairy firm, reached a deal with French milk producers on Tuesday to raise prices paid to suppliers and farmers called off their week-long protests, the company and unions said.

China will work to raise the scale and quality of its dairy sector in a bid to boost local consumption and rural employment, the country's agriculture minister said in remarks published on Monday.

A meeting between Europe's largest dairy group Lactalis and French milk producers requesting a rise in prices ended in a deadlock after 10 hours of negotiations, sources close to the talks said.

Australia's competition watchdog will launch a broad investigation into the country's dairy industry, the country's deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said on Thursday.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that the Senate will not vote on President Barack Obama's signature Asian trade deal this year, punting it to the next president for changes and consideration

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra on Thursday lifted its farmgate milk price forecast to NZ$4.75 as global dairy prices began to improve and supply slowed.

Strong profit results from Australian and New Zealand dairy processors on Wednesday fanned hopes of a market revival as farmers globally curb milk production after a glut that pushed prices to multi-year lows.

Murray Goulburn, Australia's largest dairy processor, said on Wednesday its annual net profit for 2016 rose more than 60 percent.

A U.S. national security panel has cleared ChemChina's $43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, the companies said, boosting chances that the largest foreign acquisition ever by a Chinese compa

Concluding a successful two-day summit, leaders of U.S. and Mexican dairy industry organizations pledged last week to work together on boosting trade between the two countries, address mutual challenges and increase dai

Chicago soybeans rose on Wednesday as strong demand, especially from top importer China, outweighed prospects for a massive U.S. soybean harvest this year.

The 'new' Panama Canal is generating excitement over the prospects of increased export-import trade. But the emphasis seems to be all about the former, without regard to the latter.

U.S. free trade agreements since 1984 have had an overall positive effect on trade balances, reducing U.S. trade deficits or boosting surpluses with partner countries by $87.5 billion in 2015, a new government study sho

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with the United States if elected, as part of an effort to protect and restore American

The United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union isn't just impacting dairy markets across the Atlantic Ocean.

Britain's looming exit from the European Union is another huge setback for negotiations on a massive U.S.-EU free trade deal that were already stalled by deeply entrenched differences and growing anti-trade sentiment on

The effects of Britain's vote to leave the European Union could hurt U.S. exports, now facing the headwinds of a strengthening dollar.

Russia threatened on Wednesday to ban dairy supplies from Belarus if its neighbor continues exporting what it deems poor quality and unsafe foodstuffs.