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California farmers invest water to feed people

Ted SheelyAugust 5, 2015

The worst thing about California’s drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...

Agricultural TechnologyPrecision Ag, Water, Soil0 Comments 0

It’s Elementary: Data shows that free trade improves our quality of life

John Rigolizzo, Jr.July 23, 2015

If Sherlock Holmes were to share an insight, you’d pay attention, right? That’s what I would do. Dr. Watson, the famous detective’s longtime assistant, would...

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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...

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TPA Now

Mark WagonerApril 23, 2015

Workers in Oregon are about to discover what it’s like to live in a world without international trade. Since last month, two major shipping companies have an...

NAFTA, Other AgreementsTrans Pacific PartnershipTransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership0 Comments 0

Economic Integration of the U.S. and Mexican Broiler Markets

Ross KorvesFebruary 12, 2015

Free trade of U.S. feed products and poultry from the U.S. to Mexico has allowed Mexican producers and consumers to benefit from lower feed costs and lower reta...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesInfrastructureNAFTA, Other Agreements0 Comments 0

Fifteen Years of “Protesting the Protests” Against Free Trade

Tim BurrackDecember 11, 2014

The public protests over recent grand-jury decisions have brought to mind an event whose 15th anniversary has just passed: the so-called “Battle in Seattle” ove...

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Trade Creates a World Primed for Peace

Bill HoranSeptember 18, 2014

War dominates the news these days, from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to the battles splitting the Israelis and Palestinians. Last weekend, as Pope Fr...

NAFTA, Other AgreementsTrans Pacific PartnershipTransAtlantic Trade & Investment PartnershipWorld Trade Organization0 Comments 0

Dow Enlist Herbicide Addresses Public Policy Need

Ross KorvesJuly 10, 2014

On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register Enlist Duo herbicide for Dow AgroS...

Agricultural TechnologyCrop Protection & Disease0 Comments 0

Another Push for the Doha Round of Trade Policy Talks

Ross KorvesMay 15, 2014

The WTO Trade Ministers meeting in Bali, Indonesia last December directed the WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo to prepare by this coming December a clearly ...

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Resolution of the Brazilian WTO Export Credit/Farm Program Case

Ross KorvesApril 10, 2014

Ten years ago this coming September a WTO dispute resolution panel ruled that the U.S. had not honored its WTO commitments on agricultural export credit program...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesWorld Trade Organization0 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