Farm groups want President Donald Trump to seize the opportunity to talk about a bilateral trade agreement with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he’s in Washington today for a state visit.

Abe arrives in the U.S. with a reported $450 billion U.S. infrastructure investment plan worth 700,000 new jobs. However, farm groups hope trade is on the agenda. NCBA’s Kent Bacus says that is why they joined with the National Pork Producers Council and sent a letter to the President to press him to start talks on a deal.

Bacus says expanding U.S. agricultural trade in Asia should start with Japan, which purchased $1.4 billion worth of U.S. beef in the last fiscal year, and $1.5 billion worth of U.S. pork.

Bacus says a Japan-Australia deal gives Australian beef an 11-percent tariff advantage over U.S. beef in Japan. The TPP would have dramatically cut Japan’s tariffs on U.S. beef and pork. But there’s more to farm groups’ latest push than just trade. There’s also politics.