Gregg Doud

Roughly one-thousand farm and food groups have written Congressional leaders to ratify the USMCA in a clear move to step up pressure to get the deal done.  The letter to the top leaders of the House and Senate urging approval of the tri-lateral deal probably has more signatories than any letter of its kind in recent memory.  It...

Glyphosate continues to create controversy and debate, not only here in the U.S., but around the world.  Greg Doud, chief Ag negotiator with the U.S. Trade Office, says right now glyphosate is applied to over 90% of American corn, soybeans, and cotton acres.  ...

U.S. agriculture is still waiting and pushing for USMCA to be brought up and passed in Congress.  Gregg Doud, the Chief Ag Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, said USMCA has passed a couple of important milestones, which should make it more attractive to lawmakers here in the U.S. ...

Attention in the trade world has been focus on China for many month, but two top U.S. Ag officials say once progress is made there, attention will turn to Japan.   "I hope everybody gets the sense of urgency on my part with regards to U-S Ag exports to Japan. My ...

Japan will start cutting tariffs for some of U.S. agriculture’s biggest competitors, especially for beef, starting this weekend.  Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile will all benefit from lower Japanese tariffs, starting Sunday.   That, a...

Time is of the essence for the United States to reach a bilateral trade agreement with Japan.   "They're absolutely a critical market for us when it comes to beef, pork and poultry,” said Gregg Doud is Chief Ag negotiator for the U-S Trade Representative's Office.  “And we'...

A lot of attention is being paid to an expected meeting between the presidents of the U.S. and China at the G-20 Summit in Argentina later this month.  And while Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office Gregg Doud said while there needs to be conversations about ag trade issues; "Yet we did sell China some $20 Billion worth of agricultural products, we have got

One of the key agricultural based achievements in the recent trade agreements in the US, Mexico and Canada according to the chief agricultural negotiator for the US Representative’s office, Gregg Doud. "There's a discussion about standards for biotechnology and consultations about new about new types of biotechnology like gene editing." ...

For those that have been following NAFTA negotiations for the past couple of months, and the deal that was reached over the weekend, note the back and forth on the sticking point of Canadian dairy production classifications and its impacts on the U...

When it comes to crafting a good Ag trade relationship with China, the United States has an enormous amount of work to do. Chief U-S Ag trade negotiator Gregg Dowd recently told the Senate Ag Committee:   "This is the issue of our time in agriculture is to work and to build a relationship with China to where it needs to be, because there are so many problems." ...