Beef Into China: Unprecedented Opportunity With Excellent Potential
The average American eats about 55 pounds of beef per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Imagine if the average Chinese person were to co...
NAFTA, Other Agreements
Trade and Competition Make Us All Better: A Case for NAFTA
It never occurred to me to worry about the future of NAFTA. From my farm in Saskatchewan, I thought that Canada and the United States are such natural trade par...
Mexico is Finding Its Place in the Global Economy
A Mexican lawmaker wants to ban the import of corn grown in the United States. Senator Armando Rios Piter introduced the legislation in response to President...
UK Farmers Must Focus and “Get Fit Quick” Post-Brexit
Stay in the EU or get out: That’s the choice the United Kingdom faced in last year’s referendum, and now we face Brexit, a democratic decision I have to accept....
Needed: Strong Trade Agreements With Predictable Allies
I’m worried about soybeans. We grow them on my farm in Iowa, along with corn and cattle. As the planting season approaches, however, I’m not sure how to h...
Ag, Airplanes and Perdue
President Trump took his time to choose a nominee to head the Department of Agriculture, and he picked a good one: Sonny Perdue, a former Governor of Georgia wh...
Appreciating President Obama’s Trade Support
President Obama mentioned trade only once during his farewell address on Tuesday night: “I agree that our trade should be fair and not just free.” In a speec...
Choosing Optimism As We Feed the World
At the dawn of 2017, it’s time to make America great again by making America competitive again—and the Global Farmer Network spent much of the last 12...
Trading to “Do Good and Do Well” With a Post-Fidel Cuba
Earlier this year, Missouri-based Martin Rice Company sent a 20-ton container of rice to Cuba—the first shipment of rice from the United States to Cuba in eight...
Making A Best-Case “Pivot To Trade” Scenario for Trump
Donald Trump sounds like a protectionist. In his speech to the New York Economic Club last week, he condemned “these terrible trade deals,” by which he meant mo...