Agribusiness Update for Wednesday 8/14/13

Agribusiness Update for Wednesday 8/14/13

This is the Agribusiness Update...I’m Greg Martin...

According to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman - the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership are in the end game stage. He recently said the ambitious - yet doable - aim is to complete the work by year’s end. Froman said the goal is now to bring political level involvement to the negotiations for an important stage ahead.

Students are headed back to school and USDA is highlighting a number of efforts to promote a healthy and productive learning environment. USDA programs not only impact students across the country - but support the Obama Administration’s efforts to improve rural education opportunities, help students grow up healthy and strong and maintain American competitiveness in the coming years.

America’s Farmers Grow Communities has invested more than 13-million dollars in rural America over the past four years because of the help of local farmers. More than 52-hundred nonprofit organizations have used the funding to purchase vital equipment, supplies and resources for the betterment of their community. In its fourth consecutive year - the program will give farmers the opportunity to win a 25-hundred dollar donation for their favorite local nonprofit organizations.

That’s today’s Agribusiness Update from the Ag Information Network. 

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