USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)

Slow Economy Taking a Toll On Ag Sales To Japan (USDA Radio News; 09/29/09 - wma, real, mp3)

Tribunal Finds Canada Failed to Cure Breach of the Softwood Lumber Agreement (09/28/09)

USDA Establishes Fiscal Year 2010 Tariff-Rate Quotas for Raw, Refined, and Specialty Sugar and the Domestic Sugar Overall Allotment Quantity (09/25/09)
— Federal Register Notice

USTR Initiates Next Steps on New Trade Enforcement Efforts (09/24/09)
— Federal Register Notice

USDA Requests Comments on Proposed Revisions to Fee Rate Schedule for Export Credit Guarantee Program (09/23/09)
— More about the GSM-102 Program

Vilsack Names Members to Child and Forced Labor Consultative Group (09/23/09)

USDA, USTR Applaud Agreement by Congressional Appropriators on Poultry Imports from China (09/25/09)
— Dialogue Working On U.S. and China Ag Trade Issues (USDA Radio News; 09/29/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Budget Language Could Open Door for Chinese Poultry Imports (USDA Radio News; 09/28/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and Chinese Agriculture Minister Address Trade Concerns, Agree To Renew Cooperation Agreement (09/22/09)
— Sec. Vilsack Signs MOU with China's Ag Minister (USDA Radio News; 09/23/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— More Chinese Consumers Going Out for American Food (USDA Radio News; 09/23/09 - wma, real, mp3)

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service Seeks Comments on Food Aid Guidelines for Procurement Projects (09/21/09)
— Federal Register: Interim Guidelines and Funds Availability: Projects Involving the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid (09/21/09)
— More about USDA's Food Aid Programs

Small Florida Business Finds Keys to Success Through FAS Programs (09/18/09)

Bees Boost Economy, Agriculture in Afghanistan (09/15/09)

Statement By Secretary Of State Hillary Rodham Clinton And Secretary Of Agriculture Tom Vilsack On Norman Borlaug (09/13/09)
— Norman Borlaug Remembered (USDA Radio News; 09/15/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Norman Borlaug Passes Away (USDA Radio News; 09/14/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program

FAS Commodity and Market Intelligence Reports (09/11/09)
— Oilseeds: Record Early-Season Sales Bode Well for 2009/10 U.S. Soybean Exports (.pdf)
— Cotton: Will the United States Maintain Gains in China? (.pdf)
— India: Peanut Production Estimated Lower Due to Insufficient Southern Rainfall (.pdf)
— Wheat Prices Plummet as Exporter Stocks Remain Plentiful and Import Demand Returns to Tren d (.pdf)
— Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data
— Latest Ag Export Numbers Show a Slower Pace of Sales (USDA Radio News; 09/11/09 - wma, real, mp3)

U.S. Cotton Prices and the World Cotton Market: Forecasting and Structural Change (Economic Research Service; 09/09/09)

USDA Requests Comments on Proposed Changes to Market Access Program Regulations (09/08/09)
— Federal Register Notice

New on FAS Crop Explorer - Tropical Cyclone Monitor
— Track year's current and past storms. (September 2009)

FY 2010 U.S. Ag Exports Projected at $97 Billion; $97.5 for FY 2009 (08/31/09)

— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Butter to Asia and Eurasia (09/29/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Butter to Africa and Middle East (09/22/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Cheddar Cheese to Africa and Middle East (09/18/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Cheddar Cheese to Asia and Eurasia (09/16/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Cheddar Cheese to Africa and Middle East (09/16/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Butter to Asia and Eurasia (09/16/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Anhydrous Milk Fat to Africa and Middle East (09/14/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Butter to Africa and Middle East (09/11/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Cheddar Cheese to Africa and Middle East (09/09/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Butter to Africa and Middle East (09/08/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Butter to Africa and Middle East (09/04/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Anhydrous Milkfat to Africa and Middle East (09/03/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid for Anhydrous Milkfat to Asia and Eurasia (09/03/09)
— More information about the program

USTR Statement on Awards in Brazil Cotton Dispute (08/31/09)

USDA Seeks Comments on Proposed Rule for Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Program (08/26/09)
— USDA Readying Program to Help Farmers Hurt by Trade (USDA Radio News; 08/26/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— More on Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

USDA Announces New Global Agricultural Trade System Database (08/26/09)
— Link to the Global Agricultural Trade System

Featured Reports
09/11/09 Wheat Prices Plummet as Exporter Stocks Remain Plentiful and Import Demand Returns to Trend (.pdf)
09/11/09 India: Peanut Production Estimated Lower Due to Insufficient Southern Rainfall (.pdf)
09/11/09 Oilseeds: Record Early-Season Sales Bode Well for 2009/10 U.S. Soybean Exports (.pdf)
09/11/09 Cotton: Will the United States Maintain Gains in China? (.pdf)
08/12/09 Kazakhstan: Wheat Production Prospects
08/12/09 China Rice Production Increases for Sixth Straight Year (.pdf)
08/12/09 Shrinking Argentine Wheat Supplies Create Export Opportunities in South America (.pdf)

World Production, Market and Trade Reports
09/30/09 U.S. Planting Seed Trade
09/24/09 Stone Fruit: World Markets & Trade (.pdf)
09/18/09 Sugar Monthly Import and Re-Export Data Report
09/15/09 Dairy Monthly Import Circular
09/11/09 Grain: World Markets and Trade
09/11/09 World Agricultural Production
09/11/09 Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
09/11/09 Cotton: World Markets and Trade
09/04/09 Raisins: World Markets and Trade (.pdf)
09/01/09 U.S. Planting Seed Trade

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