MMT

Argentine Government Policy Drives Soybean Market

Ross KorvesMay 7, 2015

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...

NAFTA, Other Agreements0 Comments 0

Wheat and Rice and Food Security

Ross KorvesMarch 26, 2015

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 ...

BiofortificationFood and Nutritional Security0 Comments 0

U.S. Dairy Prices and World Trade

Ross KorvesJanuary 22, 2015

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...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesFood and Nutritional SecurityNAFTA, Other AgreementsTrans Pacific Partnership0 Comments 0

Sustainability of Conventional U.S. Beef

Ross KorvesNovember 6, 2014

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef has identified five global principles for defining sustainable beef and sustainable beef production practices – natur...

Food SafetyLivestock, Animal Ag, ProteinNAFTA, Other Agreements0 Comments 0

Ukraine Crop Harvest Off to a Good Start

Ross KorvesJuly 31, 2014

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...

Food and Nutritional SecurityTrade0 Comments 0

China Seeks More Imported Beef

Ross KorvesJune 26, 2014

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....

Livestock, Animal Ag, ProteinNAFTA, Other Agreements0 Comments 0

Indian Elections May Change Food Policies

Ross KorvesMay 22, 2014

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...

Agricultural TechnologyFood and Nutritional Security1 Comment 0

Rice Markets Disturbed by Weather Forecasts and Policy Failures

Ross KorvesMay 8, 2014

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 ...

Barriers, Market Access, Other Issues0 Comments 0

Potential Russian and Ukrainian Disruptions to Agricultural Trade

Ross KorvesApril 17, 2014

Political tensions between the Russian and Ukrainian governments have the potential to disrupt trade. Both countries are noted as suppliers of wheat, while Ukr...

Barriers, Market Access, Other Issues1 Comment 0

China’s Number One Central Document for 2014

Ross KorvesJanuary 30, 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...

Agricultural Technology0 Comments 0

Trade

Three Voices. One Message. Ratify USMCA Now.

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

A New Day Dawning for the U.S. and “Land of the Rising Sun”

Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda