We were surprised to see announcements early this month that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue would be arriving imminently in Mexico at the head of a major agricultural trade mission. Surprised, for one, because we hadn’t heard a peep about such a large-scale, high profile mission, which was announced only the day before the group arrived in Mexico City. And two, because the U.S.-Mexico trade relationship – particularly in agriculture — has been nothing if not fraught with conflict during the Trump administration. Continue reading U.S. sends ag trade mission to Mexico