Trade
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.
Arlan Suderman said the recent twist in trade talks with China goes back to a 1985 document where the U.S. government commissioned a study on how to negotiate with China.
Soybean futures fell to the lowest level in a decade as an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China dims hopes that the Asian nation will resume purchases of American beans to ease supply gluts.
Argentina has become the epicenter of soybean trading dynamics -- at least for now.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to tout a weekend truce in the building trade war with China.
Add the nation’s wheat farmers to the list of groups President Donald Trump has offended.
Chinese officials are considering purchasing as much as 7 million tons of U.S. wheat depending on the progress of trade talks, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The United States will move to block imports of cotton and tomato products from western China’s Xinjiang region over allegations that they are produced with forced labor.
Betsy Jibben talks with Ralph Sandeford, the owner of the Midville Gin and Warehouse, Midville, GA.
The trade battle between the U.S. and China continues, and fresh data from U.S. Department of Agriculture puts it into perspective, showing some states saw exports decrease more than 80 percent to China in 2018.
One of the biggest surprises in the USDA World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report came in the adjustments to Chinese corn stocks.
American farmers already stung by President Donald Trump’s trade wars now face billions of dollars in potential losses as controversial data from the U.S. government snuffs out a rally in corn.
Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer provides this “easy explanation of complex program.”
Lack of longer-term investors imperils crop markets, bank says
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is asking USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue to change rates for the second round of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments.
The Senate is pushing to release its version of the farm bill by Friday. U.S. Farm Report’s Tyne Morgan has exclusive reporting from Capitol Hill and the White House
U.S. rice growers won’t get increased sales under the current terms of a trade deal agreed by President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, people familiar with the accord said.
Next year Republicans will control the Senate, while Democrats the House—but will anything be accomplished?
U.S. trade officials including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer landed in Beijing Thursday for talks aimed at nailing down a deal with China.
Lead negotiators for the U.S. and China prepare to meet once again in Beijing.
This week Gregg Doud said it could be the toughest congressional trade vote since 2005 when Congress narrowly passed the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement.
There is trade talk movement on several fronts right now.
Trade talks between the U.S. and China continue with both sides reporting positive steps toward a conclusion.
The United States trade team is back to work this week as Chinese counterparts are planning on visiting Washington D.C. to continue talks.
The White House is ramping up pressure to reach a trade deal with China in the next two weeks, warning that the U.S. is prepared to walk away from the negotiations.
Trips to Washington DC with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and its Pork Leadership Institute (PLI) always offer enlightenment on current issues mixed with a comradery not seen in all industries. This spring’s trip was no exception.
USDA announced a new tariff aid plan that offers a single payment rate for all commodities.
Canada is closely following the U.S., in so many political and trade matters, as a steadfast wingman. But what is the cost?
Canada’s canola farmers are gearing up to take advantage of US-China trade spat by pushing more plantings of that oilseed alternative to US soybeans.