Trade
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.
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.
Betsy Jibben talks with Ralph Sandeford, the owner of the Midville Gin and Warehouse, Midville, GA.
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.