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An alliance of business groups and Democrats has drafted a deal that cuts farmworkers’ wages for many years in a swap for amnesty.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants Congress to loosen the wages for the migrants who will provide the nation’s agricultural workforce under the Democrats’ pending farmworker amnesty bill.

Farming and construction were among the sectors that expanded in October.

France’s reputation for being the world’s leading producer of superior cheeses has been surrendered to products from the U.S. and Britain.

A group of Americans are getting $7.5 million from investors to help pick strawberries with a multi-armed, electronic-eyed robot, so helping reduce the need for migrant workers to stoop for strawberries in sun-scorched fields.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) signaled that he is open to the possibility of a “meat tax” to help combat climate change, according to a video of a Q&A session at his town hall event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Thursday.

An editorial in China’s state-run China Daily on Wednesday dismissed the G7’s offer of $20 million in firefighting aid to Brazil as “chump change” given the scale of the Amazon crisis and inadvertently revealed one of the reasons China is interested in the outcome: Brazil is a major source of soybeans, a crop central to the trade war between the United States and China.

The UN released a report on Thursday that calls for letting agricultural land return to wilderness and for people to eat less meat.

China’s attempt to punish American farmers for U.S. trade policies has not shaken support for President Donald Trump.

Two Iranian ships are stranded in Brazil because Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras refuses to sell them the fuel needed to return to Iran due to sanctions imposed against Iran by the United States.

Beto O’Rourke said at the Democrat debate on Wednesday that the feds should subsidize cities and pay farmers to fight climate change.

Federal employees from two agencies within the U.S. Department of Agriculture turned their backs on Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in protest Thursday at news their departments are being moved to Kansas City, Missouri.

President Donald Trump declared in all-caps on Twitter Saturday that Mexico will begin purchasing large amounts of U.S. agricultural products.

Russia’s leading meat producer on Thursday said it is ready to fill the “food gap” in China created by retaliatory tariffs against American products and a devastating outbreak of swine flu.

President Donald Trump directed assistance for America’s farmers while long-term trade deals are negotiated, leading the Agriculture Secretary to announce $16 billion in aid Thursday.

Jared Kushner’s effort to craft an immigration and wage compromise is reportedly being roiled by the Department of Agriculture’s effort to provide farming companies with many more low-wage visa workers.

Data show overwhelmingly that in recent decades, jobs and income growth have been much higher in the cities than in rural areas.

American farm companies are gradually replacing their illegal migrant workforce with machinery and with legal temporary workers, according to the Washington Post.

China’s Vice Premier pledged to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office Thursday that China will purchase five million tons of soybeans a day from the U.S.

China and the U.S. are at a “critically important stage” in their relations, according to a letter from the President of China to President Donald Trump which was read aloud in the Oval Office Thursday.

Predictions that farmers targeted by China with tariffs would turn against Donald Trump in the midterms have turned out to be nonsense.

In a video released Monday evening, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) endorsed Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and praised him for his many accomplishments and leadership in the state of Iowa.

American farmers have been hit by China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. soybeans. Nonetheless, farmers are sticking by the president and his Make American Great Again agenda.

Farm deflation could pressure the Fed to back off on interest rates.

ALMOG, West Bank — An Israeli farmer has cashed in by making exotic honey from a rare tree that produces frankincense — the resin once worth its weight in gold and venerated in the Bible.

The majority of blue collar American workers say they are better off today with the economy under the direction of President Trump than they were during the Obama years, a new poll reveals.

Facebook admits it blocked Florida State Rep. Matt Caldwell’s (R-79) pro-Second Amendment ad, issued an apology amid backlash, and allowed the ad to run.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) stated that he is “nervous” about the new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, but hopes the president can successfully use his leverage to deal with abusive trade practices.

During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump discussed trade policy and vowed that the US won’t “tolerate unfair and non-reciprocal trading practices” and that the administration “will use all available authorities to protect our great farmers.” Transcript as Follows As a

The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) approved a proposal to cover nearly $11 billion of a total $17 billion bill to build Gov. Jerry Brown’s twin Delta tunnels project on Tuesday evening.

China retaliated Monday against President Donald Trump’s $60 billion of tariffs with just $3 billion of tariffs on mostly fruit, wine, nuts and pork.

Harvard University lost $1 billion after a risky investment in international agricultural backfired, according to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek.

South Africans are increasingly worried that the government’s plans to expropriate land without compensation could destroy the economy and the country’s fragile democracy.

“The problem is we’ve got too many people running the state of California that have never worked in the private sector,” said Kimberlin Brown Pelzer during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

During his speech to the American Farm Bureau at its annual convention, President Trump said that “farmers deserve a government that serves their interest and empowers them to do the hard work that they love to do so much.” As a family farmer, I couldn’t agree more.

They say bigger is better, but in the succulent world of cherry tomatoes, one Israeli company is going smaller than ever before.