Insights and Stories on Trump

Take advantage of growth, guard against risk with new U.S. regime: Frum

Mar. 23, 2017 at 5:37 pm CDT

Political commentator David Frum says there’s good, bad and potentially ugly for Canadian farmers in the United States’ new and unpredictable Trump administration. Frum, a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and, more recently, an owner of Ontario farmland, told the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic in London recently […]

Diesel prices soften, but watching U.S. infrastructure plan

Mar. 21, 2017 at 6:47 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Trump budget plan cuts USDA food, rural water funding

Mar. 16, 2017 at 12:23 pm CDT

By Jo Winterbottom P.J. Huffstutter

Pacific trade pact countries seek ‘progressive’ way forward

Mar. 15, 2017 at 6:58 pm CDT

By Antonio De la Jara Rosalba O'Brien

Trump’s trade nominee pledges tough enforcement

Mar. 14, 2017 at 11:55 pm CDT

By David Lawder

U.S. ag secretary nominee submits ethics disclosures

Mar. 13, 2017 at 6:04 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Agriculture Department said in Senate ethics disclosure forms that he would place his assets, which include part ownership of a grain merchandising company, into a blind trust. Republican Sonny Perdue was tapped to head the department the day before […]

By Reuters

U.S. Commerce chief sees no major NAFTA talks until later this year

Mar. 8, 2017 at 3:53 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Wednesday that substantial negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement likely will not get started until the latter part of this year and could take a year to complete. Ross, speaking to Bloomberg Television, said U.S. legal notification […]

By David Lawder

White House still weighing U.S. biofuels program change

Mar. 6, 2017 at 7:54 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — The Trump administration is reviewing the possibility of a key change to U.S. biofuels policy requested by oil refiners and Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and special advisor on regulations to President Donald Trump, a White House official said Monday. The administration has no position “either […]

By emily-stephenson

Ethanol group, Icahn clash over details of U.S. biofuel negotiation

Mar. 3, 2017 at 4:59 pm CST

New York | Reuters — The head of the Renewable Fuels Association says billionaire investor Carl Icahn told him last week U.S. President Donald Trump was about to issue an order overhauling the U.S. biofuels program — something both Icahn and the White House have denied. Confusion over Trump’s plans […]

By Chris Prentice Jennifer Ablan

Canola’s rally pushes cash prices higher

Mar. 2, 2017 at 5:51 pm CST

CNS Canada — Canola cash prices notched gains with recent news out of the U.S., but the market remains rangebound, and near-term support is likely to run dry. Canola cash prices were supported by a two-day rally in the futures, said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada, but crushers have widened […]

By Jade Markus

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