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50% of the world’s population now can be considered to be middle class or higher. Could that translate into customers spending more and demanding more U.S. products? John Phipps looks into it in John’s World.
Existing tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese goods coming into the U.S. are likely to stay in place until after the American presidential election.
President Donald Trump is poised to sign a deal with China on Wednesday that leaves significant tariffs in place
he White House’s leading China hawk, trade adviser Peter Navarro, said Monday that a preliminary trade deal with Beijing is completed.
The 2018 Farm Bill isn’t receiving a lot of attention. John Phipps explains why in John’s World.
Top negotiators from China and the U.S. talked again this weekend, after signs of concessions from both sides on some of the outstanding issues.
Biofuel groups celebrated a victory in winning most of their demands in a drawn-out fight over refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
A viewer has a question for John Phipps about “missing acres” in USDA’s report, but as he explains in John’s World, the bigger issues are being missed.
Policy issues will be front and center at the World Meat Congress.
President Donald Trump risks triggering a “depression” in the nation’s rural areas if he withdraws from NAFTA, Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said in Feb 2018.