USDA

Choosing the Right US Secretary of Agriculture Is Getting the Attention It Requires

Carol KeiserJanuary 19, 2017

Prediction: Nobody will be talking about the Trump administration’s lack of an agriculture secretary a month or two from now. Instead, we’ll be amazed at how...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesPrecision Ag, Water, Soil1 Comment 0

Farmers Don’t Want Aid Programs – We Want Trade Opportunities

Bill HoranOctober 20, 2016

The Department of Agriculture has announced that it will spend $20 million to buy cheese from dairy farmers. The purpose of the purchase, according to an August...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesTrans Pacific Partnership0 Comments 0

Tracing Origin of U.S. Beef for the Chinese Market

Ross KorvesMay 21, 2015

When a case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was discovered in the U.S. cattle herd in December 2003, China along with about a hundred other countries ...

Livestock, Animal Ag, ProteinNAFTA, Other Agreements0 Comments 0

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

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Trade

Ross KorvesMarch 19, 2015

An international trade protocol has been developed to handle situations of disease in livestock and poultry in a major exporting country. Now that highly patho...

InfrastructureNAFTA, Other Agreements0 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

Agricultural Subsidies and a WTO Doha Talks Restart

Ross KorvesFebruary 5, 2015

U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman recently acknowledged to the Senate Finance Committee that the U.S. could challenge Chinese cotton subsidies at ...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesWorld Trade Organization0 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

West Coast Port Slowdown Impacts Agriculture

Ross KorvesJanuary 15, 2015

The slowdown in shipments through the U.S. west coast’s largest container port in Los Angeles, California due to a labor dispute has caught national attention f...

Food and Nutritional SecurityInfrastructure0 Comments 0

Impact of the TPP on the Japanese Agri-Food Sector

Ross KorvesDecember 4, 2014

Momentum on completing negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) has been slowed partly due to Japan’s concern about the impact...

Trans Pacific Partnership0 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