“How is NAFTA good for your children and grandchildren?” A very direct – and insightful – question asked by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a rec...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
