Choosing the Right US Secretary of Agriculture Is Getting the Attention It Requires
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...
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Farmers Don’t Want Aid Programs – We Want Trade Opportunities
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...
Tracing Origin of U.S. Beef for the Chinese Market
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 ...
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...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Trade
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...
Economic Integration of the U.S. and Mexican Broiler Markets
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...
Agricultural Subsidies and a WTO Doha Talks Restart
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman recently acknowledged to the Senate Finance Committee that the U.S. could challenge Chinese cotton subsidies at ...
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...
West Coast Port Slowdown Impacts Agriculture
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...
Impact of the TPP on the Japanese Agri-Food Sector
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...