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WASHINGTON, July 25-- Several U.S. farm associations on Thursday urged the Trump administration to end trade disputes with its trading partners and restore agricultural markets, as the government unveiled details of a 16-billion-U.S.-dollar trade aid package for farmers who have been hit hard by the U.S.-initiated trade wars. "While we are grateful for the continuing support for American agriculture from President (Donald) Trump and (Agriculture) Secretary (Sonny) Perdue, America's farmers ultimately want trade more than aid," American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a statement. "It is critically important to restore agricultural markets and mutually beneficial relationships with our trading partners around the world," Duvall said. Ben Scholz, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, said his group "appreciates the administration recognizing the impact the current trade war with China is having on farmers," while noting that "this is a band-aid when we really need a long-term fix." "We continue to urge the administration to quickly resolve the ongoing trade dispute with China and to negotiate new trade agreements, and Congress to act quickly on the USMCA," Scholz said, referring to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which still awaits congressional approval. U.S. farmers have suffered from retaliatory tariffs that China, the European Union (EU) and other trading partners placed on American agricultural products after Trump slapped tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of imports. The new aid package, announced in May, is on top of the 12 billion dollars that the U.S. government offered last year to help farmers weather the fallout. | 
