Trade

While harvest is underway in many parts of the nation, U.S. Wheat Associates is still promoting American wheat to overseas buyers.

Trade negotiations between the United States and India have reached a "major impasse", casting doubt on prospects for a bilateral agreement by July 9th.

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall recently spent time meeting with key officials in the United Kingdom, promoting American Agriculture.  Duvall toured the UK, meeting with a wide range of audiences, including UK leadership, the American ambassador, as well as several British farmers.  Duvall ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently said the clock is ticking on a 30-day schedule for the U.S. to put a trade deal framework in place with Canada, with that deadline set at July 21st.  Carney also said his government has a plan in place if that deadline is not met.  Ca...

Farmers are typically an optimistic bunch, but unfortunately, many things that control their success or failure are beyond their control.  For example, the health of the U.S. and foreign economies has a direct impact on what farmers can do year in and year out.  Chris V...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that American farmers will have greater market access to Thailand and Vietnam and maintain access to Brazil.  Actions by the administration included maintaining consistent access to Brazilian markets for U.S. dairy ...

President Trump recently signed an order that doubled tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum products from 25% to 50%, to take effect immediately for the American market.  The U.S. is the largest importer of steel in the world after the European Union and is the world’s largest aluminum importer. It currently gets m...

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator Daniel Whitely arrived in Lima, Peru, this week to begin an agribusiness trade mission to expand market access.  The goal is to boost U.S. agricultural exports to address the $3.66 billion trade deficit with Peru.  Whitley ...

Oil prices have held steady for the past couple of months, thanks to economic news that seems to balance itself out; for everyone one story pushing oil prices up, we get another pulling those prices down.  However, things have changed to start this week, with oil prices moving up to the mid-$60 range for the first time in weeks. Patrick ...

Exports of U.S. beef trended lower in April due in large part to obstacles in China.   “China we knew would have an off month in April. It was really the start of the disruption and the height of the tariffs, almost 150% tariffs on beef throughout April," said U.S. Meat Ex...