On Thursday, September 20 Gary Martin chaired a meeting of the U.S. Food and Agriculture Dialogue for Trade at the American Farm Bureau Federation. Dialogue guests Roger Wentzel, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Agricultural Affairs and Jeffrey Jones, Senior Policy Advisor at the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) provided off the record comments on the status of trade agreement talks with various nations, particularly potential free trade agreements with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.). Following a robust session with the guests,  Asia-Pacific and North American Market Working Group chairs provided updates and plans for Dialogue meetings on October 18 and November 20 were preliminarily set.