NAFTA A Timely Topic At A&M Beef Conference

COLLEGE STATION — A top cattle industry official on Monday voiced optimism about the North American Free Trade Agreement’s future while not discounting current concerns over the 24-year-old trade deal between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

“When we have all these trade issues, we have retaliation,” Randy Blach, CEO of data aggregator CattleFax, said during the opening day of the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course at Texas A&M University.

“I believe we’re going to get resolution on NAFTA in a year or two,” Blach told a group of about 2,000 agriculture professionals. “ … I’m optimistic that we’ll get some of these (trade disputes) worked out yet this calendar year as we go down the road.”

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