USTR Identifies International Trade Barriers, Outlines Efforts to Open Markets for U.S. (03/31/09)

• USDA Cancels GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To Pakistan (03/31/09)
   

• USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To South Korea (03/30/09)
   

• USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To South America Region (03/30/09)
   

• USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To Mexico (03/30/09)
   

• USDA Announces GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To Jamaica (03/30/09)
   

• USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To China/Hong Kong (03/30/09)
   

• USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To Central America Region (03/30/09)
   

• USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees For Export Sales To Caribbean Region (03/30/09)

The 2008/2009 World Economic Crisis: What It Means for U.S. Agriculture (Economic Research Service; 03/30/09)

FAS Sponsors Global Food Security Seminar
Wednesday, April 22
8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Ronald Reagan Building and International Conference Center
Washington, D.C. (03/27/09)
 

Agreement Between Chile and United States Allows Resumption of Beef Shipments to Chile (03/27/09; .pdf)

 

Norman Borlaug Turns 95 (USDA Radio News; 03/24/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— More Information on the Borlaug Fellowship Program

Vilsack Names Michener Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator (03/23/09)

President Obama Announces Under Secretaries For Agriculture Department
President Barack Obama has nominated James W. (Jim) Miller to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services. (03/13/09)

Agricultural Exports Falling Behind Last Year's Pace (USDA Radio News; 03/16/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data (03/13/09)
 

USTR Announces Delay Of Trade Action In Beef Hormones Dispute (03/12/09;.pdf)
 

Russia/Ukraine Fill Global Wheat Demand as Traditional Exporters Rebuild Stocks (03/11/09;.pdf)

 

Cotton:  Despite Higher World Demand, U.S. Exports to Decline in 2009/10 (03/11/09;.pdf)

— U.S. Soybean Exports Likely To Increase (USDA Radio News; 03/12/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Record Rapeseed Crush Contributes to Decline in EU Soybean Demand (03/11/09;.pdf)
— Extended Mid-February Surface Dryness Limits Argentine Soybean Production (03/11/09;.pdf)
 

Food for Progress Success Story:  Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal Receive Award for Their Efforts To Promote Development and Reduce Poverty (March 2009)
— AUDIO:  Actuality: Josephine Trenchard, Counterpart International’s Africa Regional Coordinator and Senegal Country Representative, talking about how her organization used the Food for Progress grant to train the Senegalese women entrepreneurs so they could market their agricultural products, mp3.
 

WTO Agricultural Trade Policy Commitments Database (03/05/09)
— Analyst Says April G20 Meeting May Lead To More Doha Round Talks (USDA Radio News; 03/06/09 - wma, real, mp3)