Bryce Cook

Typically the USDA reports a month over month increase in Ag in October, and this year was no different.  However, what was different, according to USDA analyst Bryce Cook, the total number of exports last month totaled $12.2 billion the smallest October reported since 2011.  Co...

Regardless of the international scene, U.S. Ag exports continue to run higher than a year ago for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2018.  USDA trade analyst Bryce Cook said export value is on the way up. "$133.1 billion, that's up from the previous year by about 3%." ...

Back in April, Ag exports for the first seven months of the fiscal year were trailing the same time period of 2017 by almost $2.5 billion.  However, when the May numbers were added, things changed dramatically.  The USDA said those export figures are now up year over year by $500 million.  USDA Tr...

U.S. Agricultural trade figures for the first seven months of the fiscal year, October through April,  have been released.  In April there was talk about trade wars, tariffs and counter-tariffs, but it appears that's all it was, talk.  April t...

The USDA is out with ag trade figures for the first half of this fiscal year, which ran from October through March.  March was the last month of pre-trade dispute world, a a month in which Agriculture Department Analyst Bryce Cook says the U.S. e...

For the first five months of the fiscal year, October through February, the value of U.S. agricultural exports is running about 5% below the same time period of a year ago, at $62 billion.  Trade analyst Bryce Cook said that it's mostly because of a 17% drop in bulk product exports. ...

In the first quarter of this fiscal year 2018, U.S. agricultural exports are off compared to the same time period last year.  Exports totaled to $50.7 billion this year, that's off $3 billion from last year.  USDA Trade Analyst Bryce Cooke says the decline is due mainly to soybeans.   ...

U.S. Agriculture export sales began to trail of toward the end of 2017. But for all of calendar 2017,    "You end up with $138.4 Billion worth of agricultural exports," said agriculture economist Bryce Cook.    That figure is up $3.7 Billion dollars or abo...