Trade
County FSA offices have been directed to prioritize processing of the payments and conclude that by November 22.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may not be able to sign a partial trade deal until December, and two U.S. locations have been ruled out.
Chile’s biggest social unrest in a generation forced the government to cancel next month’s APEC summit in Santiago where President Donald Trump was expected to sign a preliminary trade accord with China.
In a quick change of events, China canceled a planned visit to farms in the U.S. heartland -- a trip touted by the Trump administration as a building of “goodwill.”
When the supply was disrupted, all manufacturers had to react, and it wasn’t just tariffs causing the changes to supply.
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China resumed face-to-face talks in Washington, as the Trump administration said a Chinese delegation will visit American farmlands next week.
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.
There will be some lingering trade pain for U.S. agriculture according to the former chief ag negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative.
It’s no secret the Chinese economy is struggling. Still, Pro Farmer senior market analyst Rich Posson said he’s concerned the trade war will continue well into next year.
The U.S. Trade Representative released a statement following three days of meetings in Beijing:
We are expected to learn more this afternoon on what the second round of Market Facilitation Program payments will look like.
“I’ve seen T-L pivots in just about every situation—but seeing one with the White House in the background, well that’s pretty much it, isn’t it,” said Dave Thom, president of T-L Irrigation Co.
President Donald Trump has once again turned to tariffs to try to get his way with a U.S. trading partner.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue cleared up some of the cloudiness on Friday in an interview with AgriTalk host Chip Flory.
Following the trade aid announcement earlier this week, farmers were left with more questions than answers.
While the program has been expanded to include several crops not included in the 2018 aid, farmers will only be paid on crops planted, which makes already fraught prevent plan insurance decisions all that more difficult.
In a letter sent to Democratic leaders in Congress on Wednesday, President Trump urged lawmakers to approve the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement before taking up infrastructure legislation.
USDA squashed Bloomberg trade aid rumors Tuesday afternoon.
While some support the President’s trade tactics, others don’t.
The retaliatory tariffs ranging from 10% to 25% on $60 billion worth of American goods will go into effect June 1, unless an agreement is reached before them.
Analysts warn it could be a very long time before this trade tit for tat is in the rearview mirror.
The U.S. and Canada have agreed on a trade deal that would save the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral bloc, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Deere and Company said Friday that the impact of stronger fundamentals for other crops outweighed the impact of the decline in soybeans, which have fallen because of Chinese tariffs.
The U.S. said it will begin imposing 25 percent duties on an additional $16 billion in Chinese imports in two weeks.
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.
President Donald Trump signaled his intention to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports and curbs on investments in sensitive technology.
U.S. negotiators have reached the terms of a phase-one trade deal with China that now awaits President Donald Trump’s approval.
It’s no secret the Chinese economy is struggling. Still, Pro Farmer senior market analyst Rich Posson said he’s concerned the trade war will continue well into next year.
China committed to buying 200 million gallons of ethanol during the first half of 2021. If the commitments turn into shipments, it would mark the largest annual purchase for U.S. ethanol ever.