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Agribusiness & Raw Foods

USDA investing US$320M to create new and better markets for agricultural producers and food businesses in 19 states across rural America, including Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa and Minnesota
St. Joseph Post (06/20)

Imposing tariffs on Mexican imports of white corn does not correct the crisis of producers currently living in the north of the country, especially because the underlying problem is the fall in prices on the international market, industry officials say
CE Noticias Financieras (Latin America) (06/20)

Building Products & Wood

City of Weed, California, and Roseburg Forest Products agree to US$7.25M settlement resolving claims from 2022 Mill Fire; city worked directly with Roseburg on settlement, which will restore damaged infrastructure, help the community rebuild
PR Newswire (06/20)

Chemicals

ACC announces launch of new tool tracking EPA progress in new chemicals reviews under the Toxic Substances Control Act; resource will be updated monthly using EPA public data sources
American Chemistry Council (06/20)

Forestry/Timberland

US Representative for Arkansas introduces Flatside Wilderness Additions Act, to add 2,215 acres controlled by US Forest Service to Flatside Wilderness area; addition would boost state's outdoor recreation economy
US Official News (06/20)

British Columbia's Forest Innovation and Bioeconomy Conference, June 19-21, brings together leaders in forestry, government, academia; FPInnovations, Paper Excellence, COFI, University of British Columbia are sponsoring event
Government of British Columbia (06/20)

Okanogan County, Washington, commissioners impose countywide burn ban effective June 15 through Oct. 15, acting on a recommendation from the multi-agency Fire Advisory Committee
Quad City Herald (Brewster, WA) (06/20)

California launches first-of-its-kind US$20M Prescribed Fire Liability Claims Fund Pilot; aim is to provide new protections for prescribed fire and cultural burning practitioners to promote use of controlled burns to reduce wildfire risk
California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) (06/20)

Metals & Minerals

City council of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, approves restatement of LB 840 economic development assistance agreement with Prime Metals after business losses; re-negotiated economic agreement offers greater security and support for struggling local business
Star-Herald (Scottsbluff, NE) (06/20)

Chile's state-own Codelco, world's largest copper producer, announces plan to boost lithium production; to emulate success of public-private partnership in Indonesia, Codelco to provide capital while letting existing commercial miners to extract resource
MarketLine (06/20)

Chile gives green light to Los Bronces copper mine extension after initially rejection due to air quality, glacier melting concerns; approval came after Anglo American promises to replace 70,000 wood-burning stoves across Santiago to reduce pollution
Mongabay News (06/20)

Retailing

UK government says it never considered imposing supermarket price caps for essential items; announcement comes amid report that government was considering such caps but scrapped the idea after opposition from industry officials
just-food.com (06/20)

Tobacco, Cannabis & Derivatives

New York appears to be falling short of its expected US$56M in revenues from its first year of legal marijuana sales, according to report backed by medical marijuana operators; industry criticizes laws that it says are too restrictive
New York Post, The (06/20)

Macro Economics

Interest Rates

China cut the one-year Loan Prime Rate to 3.55% from 3.65%, and the five-year LPR to 4.2% from 4.3%; People's Bank of China is offering US$33B to banks through the medium-term lending facility to maintain sufficient liquidity in banking system
ArabianBusiness.com (06/20)

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