Argentine Government Policy Drives Soybean Market
Many participants in the world soybean market see supplies from the three largest producing countries, the U.S., Brazil and Argentina, as being equally driven b...
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Wheat and Rice and Food Security
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 ...
U.S. Dairy Prices and World Trade
The average all-milk price received by U.S. farmers for 2014 according to USDA was a record high of $23.97 per hundredweight (CWT), almost 20 percent higher tha...
Sustainability of Conventional U.S. Beef
The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef has identified five global principles for defining sustainable beef and sustainable beef production practices – natur...
Ukraine Crop Harvest Off to a Good Start
The latest crop report as of mid-July by the U.S. Agricultural Attaché in Ukraine shows harvest of winter grains on track despite disruptions from military move...
China Seeks More Imported Beef
At the recent World Meat Congress in Beijing, China, Chinese government officials acknowledged a shortage of about 1 million metric tons (MMT) of beef per year....
Indian Elections May Change Food Policies
The overwhelming win by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in recent elections for India’s lower house of Parliament has the potential to substantially increase f...
Rice Markets Disturbed by Weather Forecasts and Policy Failures
Weather forecasts for an El Niño effect beginning by July of this year have caught the attention of government officials in Asian rice producing countries that ...
Potential Russian and Ukrainian Disruptions to Agricultural Trade
Political tensions between the Russian and Ukrainian governments have the potential to disrupt trade. Both countries are noted as suppliers of wheat, while Ukr...
China’s Number One Central Document for 2014
For the twelfth year in a row the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government’s State Council jointly issued the No. 1 Central D...