Mexico Gets New NWS Facility
USDA last week conducted what it billed as the largest trade mission in the department's history to Mexico, conducting more than 500 business meetings in three days. The department also announced the opening of a new Tampico facility that will aerially disperse sterile flies.
USDA Reports Summary
USDA released its November Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports on Friday.
Strict TCH Rule a Risk to Hemp Sector
The funding bill passed this week by Congress rewrites the 2018 farm bill's provisions on hemp to end the unregulated sale of hemp-based products. That provision could upset an industry created around those products, including thousands of farmers.