Articles Tagged with ''rice''

Up until recently Mexico counted on the U.S. for nearly 100% of its rice imports, but that’s no longer the case. Countries like Brazil now find themselves at a price advantage to the once-dominant U.S. and they’re taking advantage of the situation at a rate that has the USA Rice Federation concerned that members are losing their largest and most reliable market.

Haiti has remained a major customer of U.S. rice through decades of turmoil, but that has come to an end. The implosion of the country that has descended into the chaos of gang rule and disease outbreak has made it impossible for U.S. exporters to keep supplying the country even in its time of most dire need.

Farmers across the country are largely ahead of schedule at getting their crops out of the field as fall and its chillier temperatures descent on farm country.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced Thursday that the U.S. and Kenya will begin developing closer ties under a deal that would improve agricultural trade by addressing non-tariff trade barriers.

Representatives of major farm groups told leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Friday that the existing farm bill programs are inadequate to protect farmers from rising input costs.

A broad coalition of countries is making a last-minute push to change World Trade Organization rules and allow governments to increase farm subsidies and accumulate massive stocks of grain that can be dumped into the global market.

President Joe Biden's $33 billion supplemental funding request for the war in Ukraine includes $500 million to encourage U.S. farmers to increase production of crops such as soybeans and wheat.

India’s subsidized wheat and rice stockpiling has made the country’s government a foe of U.S. wheat and rice farmers, but now the country’s prime minister is trying to use the farming crisis in Ukraine to justify its efforts to prop up domestic farmers by saying it could come to the rescue of grain-deprived countries.

Cuba has struggled for decades to feed its people, but because of U.S. sanctions and the impacts of the COVID pandemic, the country is becoming more desperate to buy U.S. grain and meat.