Tom Polansek
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@Reuters journalist in Chicago. Agriculture and food. I L L - I N I. Contact: [email protected]
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Joined March 2011
China buys US #soybeans before Trump-Xi meet, sources say COFCO's deal for Dec-Jan shipment of about 180,000 metric tons was China's first such buy in months, but traders do not expect a big resumption in demand for US soy after South American purchases. https://t.co/5hredmLnBZ
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China's state-owned COFCO bought three U.S. soybean cargoes, two trade sources said, the country's first purchases from this year's U.S. harvest, shortly before a summit of leaders Donald Trump and...
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Trump's change of heart on Lula may be thanks to Brazilian beef tycoon JBS co-owner Joesley Batista told Trump that the tariffs he imposed on Brazilian products were making #beef too expensive for Americans, a source says https://t.co/zFqxIBW7HA
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A co-owner of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS met privately with U.S. President Donald Trump about three weeks before Trump extended a surprise olive branch to Brazil's president in his United...
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Ranchers in central Mexico are discovering screwworm fly maggots burrowed in their cattle for the first time in a generation, sounding the alarm for Texas cattle ranchers who worry the parasitic flies will eat their livestock alive https://t.co/Ybtx2xL4ys
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US cattle ranchers slowly start to rebuild decimated herd -
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Nebraska cattle rancher Craig Uden bought 200 extra mother cows and their babies over a few weeks in May to expand his herd as dry weather gave way to rain that rejuvenated land used for grazing.
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Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of US aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to people familiar with the matter. The food came from US farmers and manufacturers. https://t.co/1wV3sxpiQk
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These food rations could feed over a million people for three months, or the entire population of Gaza for a month and a half, according to a Reuters analysis.
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US #beef off the menu as the trade war hits Beijing's American-style restaurants #TradeWar #China
https://t.co/uL5bJDuYPn
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At Home Plate BBQ, an American-style restaurant in Beijing, staff are reprinting menus. The U.S.-China trade war means American beef - once the star ingredient - will soon be off the table.
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Trump trade war dries up sorghum sales to China but US farmers plan to plant more -
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U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with China comes at a bad time for sorghum growers like Dan Atkisson in Kansas, who is nevertheless preparing to increase plantings by 25% this spring.
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Trump tells US farmers that tariffs on "external product" are coming and they should get ready to produce agricultural goods to be sold INSIDE the US
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"Corn is winning the acreage battle" US farmers plan to plant more #corn and fewer #soybeans this spring, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs, via @JulieIngwersen
https://t.co/P6zpEabIv9
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Farmers in the U.S. plan to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring than they did last year, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened...
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Canceled meetings. Unpublished reports. State officials in the dark. Federal staff anxious that information isn’t getting out. The first weeks of the Trump administration have disrupted the U.S. bird flu response. My latest with @tpolansek: https://t.co/e4swRLazFR
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The Trump administration has disrupted the U.S. response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts,...
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The Trump administration's dismantling of USDAID halted work at a network of farm research laboratories at land grant universities in 13 states, according to six lab directors. Our (@leahjdouglas and my and @tpolansek's) latest on @Reuters
https://t.co/JgexPnIBJE
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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. has stopped purchases for foreign food aid programs since the Trump admin began a review of federal aid spending, despite a waiver issued nearly two weeks ago for food assistance, nine sources tell me, @LisaBaertlein and @tpolansek. https://t.co/p8P9IOSmWv
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Farmers face low commodity prices and fear tariffs, and see foreign aid as a way to promote their products abroad.
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China's suspension of five Brazilian #soybean exporters to last 2 months, says Brazilian official via @Reporter_AMano
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China's suspension earlier this month of Brazilian soybean exports from five companies after cargoes did not meet plant health requirements will last two months, a top Brazilian agriculture official...
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Trump's pick to run the USDA, Brooke Rollins, led an organization that opposed ethanol mandates and farm subsidies, major programs she could influence if confirmed, according to a Reuters review of the group's policy statements. https://t.co/Q5bg4nVn5r
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President Donald Trump's pick to run the Agriculture Department, Brooke Rollins, led an organization that opposed ethanol mandates and farm subsidies, major programs she could influence if confirmed,...
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Surging corn prices trigger spate of sales from US farmers -
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Iowa farmer Caleb Hamer grabbed his phone and dialed a local corn buyer this week, eager to sell his grain as prices climbed to their highest level in more than a year.
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