Imports and Exports
Dr. Pat Westhoff joins AgriTalk’s Chip Flory to share his spin on the latest trends in crop markets, livestock outlooks and projections for net farm income.
As of Friday morning, there were 62 vessels and 1,058 barges in the queue, ready to head to the Gulf.
The Hernando de Soto Bridge, which links Memphis and eastern Arkansas, could be closed to vehicle traffic for a couple of months. Grain exporters are hoping barge traffic will be able to resume much sooner.
Since last year, China has been importing record volumes of U.S. corn due to a supply shortage and record domestic prices.
China booked its largest purchase of U.S. corn since January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held their first telephone call as leaders.
Beijing says it supports domestic companies purchasing a certain amount of U.S. farm produce.
The U.S. hiked tariffs on more than $200 billion in goods from China on Friday in the most dramatic step yet of Donald Trump’s push to extract trade concessions.
President Donald Trump and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe met in New York on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing negotiations of the U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement
China has told state-owned firms to halt purchases of soybeans and pork from the United States, two people familiar with the matter said.
President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.
Money from agricultural exports doesn’t just go to farmers, there’s a large chain of people involved in that process who all benefit.
Soaring corn prices are stoking food security jitters in China, where food inflation has climbed to the highest in over a decade.
A review of the U.S.-China trade deal initially slated for Saturday will be delayed due to scheduling issues and no new date has been agreed.
U.S. exporters reported sales of 720,000 tonnes of soybeans to China, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Thursday, as active purchases by the world’s top soy importer continued for a second straight week.
It’s either going to be a boom fourth quarter for U.S. farmers, or that extra $12.5 billion in American agriculture purchases promised by China for this year isn’t happening.
Farmers are concerned the aid packaged announced last week by the Trump Administration will not help them financially.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the 116-year-old agribusiness giant, is shaping up as one of the few crop-trading houses to benefit from President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
The U.S. Trade Representative released a statement following three days of meetings in Beijing:
A rout in commodities deepened as the threat of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies intensified, hitting markets from steel to soybeans.
Farmers are concerned the aid packaged announced last week by the Trump Administration will not help them financially.