Policy
Pro Farmer Washington Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer talks ethanol, SCOTUS, the farm bill and more and separates signal from noise.
President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on every single Chinese import into America as the world’s two largest economies exchanged the first blows in a trade war that isn’t set to end anytime soon.
Canada’s largest dairy processor is voicing an opinion that’s probably unpopular with the nation’s farmers: Donald Trump has a point.
An executive at Cargill Inc., America’s largest private company, said Tuesday the world risks sliding into isolationism amid current international trade disputes.
An executive at Cargill Inc., America’s largest private company, said Tuesday the world risks sliding into isolationism amid current international trade disputes.
Senate Agriculture Committee leadership worked into the night last night to pull together a bipartisan farm bill to present to the committee.
Lawmakers are concerned President Trump’s proposed tariffs on foreign cars under Section 232 could instigate retaliatory trade actions aimed at farmers.
A freshman Republican from one of the nation’s deepest-red districts said the rejection of House farm legislation on Friday is the latest setback for agriculture under GOP leadership.
Commodities were a big casualty of the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, but are now set to be a major beneficiary of Beijing’s pledge to import more American goods.
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The proposed 25% tariff on U.S. soybean imports to China has the potential to send shockwaves through the domestic and global soybean markets.
Seven months before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump’s faceoff with China over trade has exposed an unexpected political vulnerability in what was supposed to be the Republican Party’s strongest region: rural America.
Officials signaled they expect recent hurricanes to have just a short-term impact on the economy.
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The order created a task force to examine “barriers to economic prosperity in rural America.”
The minutes also showed that just one official voted against the March interest rate hike.