U.S. agriculture groups launch campaign backing trade deal with Canada, Mexico

The powerful U.S. agriculture industry is throwing its weight behind the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement, urging the Trump administration to consider the deal's economic benefits to rural America before making any moves to rip it up.

Some 40 organizations representing farmers, ranchers, food producers and processors have launched what they call the Agricultural Coalition for USMCA, the American acronym for the three-way trade deal known in Canada as CUSMA.