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Today on Farm Journal Live, Tom Vilsack of the U.S. Dairy Export Council talks about the eighth straight month of growth in U.S. dairy exports.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the third and final tranche of 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments.

The attention was also on trade at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin and concern the European Union could retaliate. How are U.S. dairy exports now? AgDay takes a look.

President Donald Trump and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe met in New York on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing negotiations of the U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement

President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping agreed to another truce in their trade war Saturday, removing an immediate threat looming over the global economy even as a lasting peace remains elusive.

President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.

The U.S. hiked tariffs on more than $200 billion in goods from China on Friday in the most dramatic step yet of Donald Trump’s push to extract trade concessions.

Dairy farmers and trade groups in Iowa, Michigan, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin support the latest trade deal negotiations with Canada and Mexico.

Large supplies of meat and dairy, possibly record-setting tons, are coming to U.S. consumers.

President Donald Trump said talks on a revised NAFTA are “doing very nicely” as ministers from the U.S., Mexico and Canada meet in Washington to try to push for an agreement by early May.

President Donald Trump said talks on a revised NAFTA are “doing very nicely” as ministers from the U.S., Mexico and Canada meet in Washington to try to push for an agreement by early May.

Mexico and Canada aim to finish reworking less contentious chapters of the NAFTA trade deal with the United States in new talks that began on Sunday.

On Thursday, the USDA released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, showing corn is seeing increased exports and reduced stocks.

What are the issues dividing the U.S., Canada and Mexico in round 6 of NAFTA talks?

World’s most popular sports event gets fourth Chinese sponsor.

New Zealand pasture growth raises questions about milk output.

As we get closer to 2018 economists are watching 5 important variables that could impact the dairy economy.  

NAFTA Ministers Extend Trade Talks into 2018 amid Deadlock

U.S. president pressing for changes opposed by some businesses.

Cheesemakers are making more in Russia to replace EU imports.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to defend the supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry in talks about revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A total of 4,000 animals are expected to arrive within a month.

American beef is on its way to China for the first time in 14 years. Nebraska’s Greater Omaha Packing Company announced today it was sending beef by air freight to a customer in Shanghai.

Having an Agriculture Secretary with on-the-farm experience has farmers and ranchers eager to see what Sonny Perdue can get done at USDA.

Wisconsin agriculture officials say most Wisconsin farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute have new buyers.

Yili also cancels plan to raise 9 billion yuan in placement.

Competition in yogurt, cheese market stiff as milk sales slow.

A handful of Wisconsin dairy farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute were weighing offers from new buyers on Tuesday, but others were running out of time before an expiring contract risked putting them out of business.

The biggest U.S. dairy importer is talking with New Zealand and buying more from the EU. Guess why.

Gov. Scott Walker says he spoke with President Donald Trump about the nearly 40 Wisconsin dairy farmers desperately seeking help after being dropped by their milk buyer following a Canadian policy change.  

Nonfat dry milk futures are down 12% amid trade war concerns.

Canada to defend its protectionist dairy system in NAFTA talks.

19 Minnesota dairy farms affected by US-Canada trade dispute

Canada's ambassador to Washington said Tuesday night that President Donald Trump is wrong when he says Canada's trade practices in the dairy industry are "very unfair."

President says he’ll demand a solution on U.S. milk exports.

Two directors depart, leaving board below amount needed to act.  

A group of senators is urging the Trump administration to act against what they call “trade barriers” that are restricting U.S. dairy farmers’ access to Canada.

U.S. dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump's talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market.

Turkey Protests Dutch Government by Returning 40 Holstein Cows

China's foodservice market is easier to penetrate for Fonterra and Friesland, as chefs trained in demo kitchens find ways to use dairy.  

Saudi Arabia is biggest market in Gulf region for Irish food.  

Mexico’s top trade negotiator doubled down on threats to break off talks to rework Nafta.

EU farm aid no longer offsets slump from EU’s Russia sanctions.

The dairy sector has been hit with sagging prices and production costs squeezing profits to the extent that has driven many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy. The EU's executive Commission has approved some support measures over the past year, but the farmers fear that releasing more milk powder on the market would further complicate their plight.

Huishan shares dropped as much as 4.3% before being suspended.

Even as Asia makes clear strides in taming hunger and famine, the rapidly modernizing continent needs to focus more on diversifying its diet or risk failing to quell malnutrition, with milk having the potential to help, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report Tuesday.

Milk regulations in Canada could devastate the New York dairy industry.

Organic milk only 1% of China market versus 10% globally.

‘Global milk prices remain at unrealistically low levels’

French farmers are occupying an intersection outside the headquarters of dairy giant Lactalis and crying for help as they struggle to compete with cheaper countries in Europe's single market.