Maine’s congressional delegation is concerned President Trump won’t deliver promised aid to lobstermen amid a looming deadline to start such a program. (The Hill

China confirmed plans to talk with U.S. officials soon to review progress on their preliminary trade deal, a rare engagement between the world’s largest economies as relations deteriorate on other issues ranging from human rights in Hong Kong to technological dominance. (Bloomberg)

Starting in late August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will contact farmers to get an update on yield prospects for corn and soybeans. The following month NASS will contact producers for the September Hogs and Pigs Survey. (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

Food insecurity is on the rise amid the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a disturbing trend that could expose economically challenged people and families to risk factors associated with the coronavirus. (U.S. News & World Report)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will continue to allow immigrant farm workers to extend H-2A work visas when they are hired into new jobs, in a bid to protect the U.S. food supply during the coronavirus pandemic. (Reuters)

From an uncertain and seemingly always changing trade war with China, to bargain basement crop prices, to the coronavirus, what the agriculture industry thought would have to be an improvement from 2019 hasn’t gotten much better. And now, we get to put one more addition to that list: derecho. (Forbes)