Markets & News: Signal to Noise with Jim Wiesemeyer

China trade talks are extended, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi JinPing are poised to meet next month and USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue tweets that China will buy another 10 million metric tons of soybeans. Pro Farmer Washington Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer, AgriTalk Radio's Chip Flory and Farm Journal News Director John Herath break down the breaking news on the China trade front including potential market and planting impacts, all on this week's DC Signal to Noise Podcast. 

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Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act allows the president to place trade restrictions in the interest of national security. President Donald Trump last year used Section 232 to impose protective tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. In this week's DC Signal to Noise, Jim Wiesemeyer and John Herath look at the use of the Section 232 tariffs and why the steel and aluminum tariffs have continued even though the NAFTA negotiations that triggered the tariffs have concluded.  Those continuing tariffs and the threat of using Section 232 on auto imports clouds all of the current trade talks with China, Japan, the EU, Canada, Mexico and more.

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You can almost smell the deals cooking. Pro Farmer Policy Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer says deals are close to avoid another government shutdown and to end the trade war with China. But can President Donald Trump take both deals to the finish line? Wiesemeyer and Farm Journal News Director John Herath point to the signals in this week's news that indicate key deals may be just on the horizon in this edition of the DC Signal to Noise Podcast.

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Former USDA Chief Scientists Dr. Gale Buchanan and Dr. Catherine Woteki took issue with last week's episode of DC Signal to Noise analyzing a proposal to move USDA's research functions away from Washington, so we invited them on to explain why, in their view, ERS and NIFA should stay in the beltway in this special edition.

Be sure to catch the regular DC Signal to Noise podcast with Jim Wiesemeyer and John Herath also available this week, Episode 32-2: It's Deal Making Time.

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It's flown mostly under the radar, but USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue is pushing a restructuring of USDA research services that would move the research out of the DC beltway and into the countryside. Randy Russell of the Russell Group joins DC Signal to Noise this week to give details on the effort to move ERS and NIFA, who is fighting for and against the move and what it will mean for farmers and ranchers. Plus Randy joins Jim Wiesemeyer and John Herath to discuss the latest positive news on China trade, implementation of the new dairy margin program, and the continuing strong support for President Donald Trump in farm and ranch country.

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The White House and House Democrats finally walked back from the ledge today with President Donald Trump announcing a three-week truce on the budget/border wall fight. Pro Farmer Washington Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer, AgriTalk Host Chip Flory and Farm Journal News Director John Herath talk about the implications of the budget deal on ag, markets and trade in this week's DC Signal to Noise.

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Could China hold the key to not only ending the trade war but also ending the government shutdown? Pro Farmer's Jim Wiesemeyer has a novel idea that just might work on today's DC Signal to Noise. Wiesemeyer and Farm Journal News Director John Herath also separate the signal from the noise in President Donald Trump's speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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The partial government shutdown ends its second week with no signal at all on what it will take to forge agreement on funding and border security. Pro Farmer's Jim Wiesemeyer and John Herath of Farm Journal talk about the impacts of the shutdown, both big and small, on farmers and the markets. They also tip their hats to a longtime and long respected ag leader who has announced his retirement.

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As the government heads towards an apparent shutdown, Farm Journal's Jim Wiesemeyer and John Herath look at the possible long-term impacts for agriculture. They also analyze the long, strange journey for the 2018 Farm Bill and President Donald Trump's decision to Tweet video of himself singing the Green Acres theme song to announce the bill's enactment.

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In this special Signal to Noise Extra, we look at the hemp provisions in the just-passed farm bill. Michael Bowman of the National Hemp Association joins Farm Journal's Jim Wiesemeyer and John Herath to detail what is in the farm bill and how it could change the hemp industry for fiber, for health and for recreation.

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