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Ag News: Syngenta Climate Contribution
Chinese-owned Syngenta will contribute $2 billion over the next five years to create innovations specifically targeted to address climate change.
Ag News: U.S. Pumpkin Production
All states produce at least some pumpkins, but according to the 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture, about 62 percent of pumpkin acres were grown in only ten States.
Ag News: PMA Record Attendance
**The Produce Marketing Association’s 2019 Fresh Summit was a record-breaker.
According to thepacker.com, the Southern California event in Anaheim earlier this month hit all the right notes, drawing a record attendance of nearly 24,000 and featuring just over 1,200 exhibitors...
Ag News: USMCA Progress Made
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement working group is getting closer to an agreement,on issues relating to the environment, enforcement, access to medicines and labor.
Ag News: USDA’s Rural Broadband
The USDA has invested over $2.8-million in high-speed broadband infrastructure to create or improve e-Connectivity for 347 rural households in Tennessee.
Ag News: Cali Avacado Estimates Up
Despite a damaging heat wave, the California avocado farmers will produce a larger-than-expected crop. The avocado season officially ends at the end of October.
Ag News: China Buys U.S. Pork
**Chinese firms claim they have purchased 700,000 metric tons of pork from the U.S. this year to meet market demand, but U.S. government data shows smaller pork sales.
According to agweb.com, weekly USDA export sales data show recent buying has increased China’s pork purchase total to around 300,000 metric tons for shipment this year and about 135,000 metric tons for delivery in 2020.
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Ag News: Cali Power Shutoff
**Operations are returning to normal at California farms, ranches and agricultural businesses that endured public-safety power shutoffs.
The widespread outages interrupted harvest schedules for wine grapes, rice and other crops, and caused scattered produce losses due to lack of refrigeration...
Ag News: Details of China Deal
President Trump is calling the still to be completed trade deal with China "the greatest and biggest deal ever made for our Great Patriot Farmers in the history of our Country."
Ag News: U.S. Beef Exports Off Slightly
January-August U.S. beef exports were slightly below 2018’s record pace, declining 2% in volume and 1% in value. Accounted for 14% of total U.S. beef production in August.
Ag News: U.S.-China Partial Pact
The U.S. and China reached a partial agreement Friday that would broker a truce in the trade war and lay groundwork for a broader deal.
Ag News: Big Pigs in China and Bitter Pit Sensors
**In a desperate move to make up for losses from African Swine Fever, some Chinese pig farmers are raising pigs as big as polar bears.
According to agweb.com, some of these giant pigs are crossing the scale around 1,100 pounds and can sell for nearly $1,400, more than three times the average monthly disposable income in the area...