Rice and wheat are food staples for most of the world and remain critical for food security, even though most of the public policy issues in agricultural trade ...
Chinas announcements that it may import up to 10 million metric ton (MMT) of wheat this year has stirred up what had been a quiet market for the last few month...
Managing carryover stocks is a challenge for all agricultural commodities. Markets need to limit use through higher market prices when supplies are tight and t...
A recent report by the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of USDA states that for the second year in a row in 2013 India will be the worlds largest beef export...
Hot, dry weather in some major wheat exporting regions has caused world markets to react from fears of a short crop as occurred in 2010. According to the Forei...
India shook the global cotton trade in early March by suddenly shutting off additional registrations of cotton for exports and indicating that some cotton alrea...
When USTR Ron Kirk and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced in early April that the U.S. and Brazil had agreed to work toward a negotiated settlement over Brazi...
Some type of additional trade adjustment assistance will be part of any effort by the House and Senate to approve an extension of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA...