Trump made the trip to Texas on the heels of two big trade wins: the signing of a Phase 1 trade deal with China and congressional approval of the U.S. Canada Mexico Agreement (USMCA).

Hunter Carpenter, Director of Public Policy at ARA, was recently on the AgPro podcast to recap the latest on trade and the Farm Bill implementation.

“I make 99 decisions a year to raise a good corn crop. One of those things is pick the seed. How do we knife out the attributable results of the seed from insecticides, fungicides, drainage, etc?” says Ben Riensche.

Some analysts say it could take a couple months before significant buys from China are on the books.

Overall job approval for President Trump ticked up a point in January to 83% of the 1,286 respondents.