Archive for the "Trade" Tag

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the second tranche of 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments aimed at assisting farmers suffering from […]

It was a bad day for U.S.-China trade prospects yesterday as President Donald Trump threw a bit of cold water in a […]

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue released the following statement on China’s decision to lift […]

Josh Zumbrun, William Mauldin and Chao Deng reported on the front page of Friday’s Wall Street Journal that, “Beijing’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. and […]

Despite the corn crop dropping by 118 million bushels in last Friday’s WASDE report, a 100 million bushel reduction in 2019-20 corn […]

After the USDA and White House announced the 2019 MFP program, we noted that direct government payments were set to soar in 2019. […]

Bloomberg News reported last week that, “Tang Jie, who works on a pig farm, says he used to get pork from the wet […]

The Havana International Trade Fair is where Cuba puts the best face on its struggling economy. There are state-run restaurants stocked with […]

Even though the November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report featured a tighter U.S. and world balance sheet on corn, […]

The pork shortage in China caused by African swine fever continues to overcome high import tariffs for U.S. pork heading to the […]