Assistance for Southeast Ag Producers and U.S. Pumpkin Production - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST - AGInfo Ag Information Network

From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.

**The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative volition prosecute avenues to assistance the Southeast seasonal nutrient manufacture successful coordination with the USDA.

The announcement comes aft members of Congress requested an introspection of definite issues successful a September 8th Section 301 petition that requires a determination connected actions wrong 45 days.

Although USTR is not opening an probe astatine this time, they are moving guardant with an advisory panel.

**R-CALF USA is making a propulsion for Congress to see mandatory country-of-origin labeling of beef.

R-CALF is encouraging its members to amusement their enactment for the American Beef Labeling Act.

The authorities would necessitate the U.S. Trade Representative, with the Secretary of Agriculture, to make a World Trade Organization-compliant means of reinstating MCOOL for beef wrong 1 twelvemonth of enactment.

USTR would person six months to make a reinstatement plan, followed by a six-month implementation window.

**With Halloween conscionable past, pumpkins were a communal show crossed the United States.

The accumulation of pumpkins, from classical orangish Howdens to caller varieties similar Cinderella, is wide dispersed, with each states producing immoderate pumpkins.

However, USDA’s Economic Research Service reports astir 40% of pumpkin acres are successful conscionable six states.

Illinois is consistently the nation's largest pumpkin producer, followed by Indiana, California, Texas, Michigan, and Virginia.