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Very little positive news is entering the market to support soybean prices. The potential size of the soybean crop and trade uncertainty continue to be the main forces behind soybean price weakness.

Alyssa Cornelison joins Zinpro as a research assistant and Paul Peetz joins the Lely team as milking technology manager.

The outlook for trade has darkened considerably in recent days; a gamble in the trade arena that holds substantial risk for American farmers.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney is leading a trade mission to Japan this week. It concludes on June 15.

With more supplies coming online, Seaboard Triumph Foods will start a second shift at its Sioux City plant in October 2018. At full capacity, the plant will employ 2,000 employees and process 21,000 market hogs daily.

The Trump administration announced Friday it is moving forward on slapping tariffs on imported goods for China as the trade fight widens.

The National Pork Producers Council is calling for Thailand’s preferential access to the U.S. market to be revoked or reduced if it does not end its unwarranted ban on U.S. pork.

What’s new, what’s trendy in food? What are other people eating (that we’re not)? Good to know — except this report details what people are planning to buy, not what they’ll actually eat.

After a record performance in 2017, U.S. pork exports to Central America, South America and the Dominican Republic have continued to gain momentum this year.

Talk about extremes: Twin news stories are touting, respectively, saving farm animals by going veggie, and breeding, raising and butchering them in your very own home slaughter operation.