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Opinion: China's agroindustrial interests in Latin America

06/27/19 9:55 AM By Margaret Myers

Much attention has been focused of late on the implications for Latin America of the US-China trade war, including in the agricultural sector, where Brazil has seemingly benefitted from growing demand for its abundant soy. Recent tariffs have pushed China to intensify trading with Latin America, contributing to the expectation that Brazil will become the leading soybean exporter for 2019-20, a distinction previously held by the US.

Opinion: Foreign Subsidies Continue to Sour Global Sugar Market

05/14/19 9:43 AM By Darren Hudson

While the rest of the country has enjoyed an economic resurgence in recent years, the farm economy has slipped into a recession as global commodity prices precipitously fall.

Brazil to open quota for US wheat and accept US pork

03/20/19 6:41 AM By Bill Tomson

Brazil has agreed to lift its ban on U.S. pork and make good on a 24-year-old promise to set up an annual 750,000-metric-ton tariff rate quota to allow in U.S. wheat, according to the leaders of the two countries.

Cotton growers anxious as trade war lingers

02/13/19 5:40 AM By Philip Brasher

Cotton growers have been patient with President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, by far their most important customer. After all, they’ve had their own frustrations with China for years. But cotton growers say that patience is running short as planting season nears.

Ag Economist: Farm economy slump could last until 2027

12/05/18 6:36 AM By Steve Davies

The tough economic times agriculture currently faces could last for almost another decade, an ag economist told the American Seed Trade Association Tuesday in Chicago.

China's soybean crunch is approaching fast

10/31/18 6:40 AM By Bill Tomson

The soybean market in the coming weeks will be focused on China and how it handles its massive demand for the oilseed while at the same time avoiding U.S. supplies facing a 25 percent tariff in the ongoing trade war with the Trump administration.

Glyphosate subject to possible injunction in Brazil

08/08/18 5:15 AM By Sandra Cowherd

A Brazilian court has given the country's health agency 30 days to finish reviewing the safety of three agrochemicals, including glyphosate, before their use would be suspended.

Long-term forecast for US soy exports bullish despite short-term woes

05/16/18 6:45 AM By Bill Tomson

The fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement remains uncertain and a trade war with China continues to loom heavy over rural America, but the long-term forecast for U.S. soybean exports remains bullish, propped up by optimistic forecasts from the USDA.

Brazil, other competitors aim to win U.S. export markets

05/07/18 4:38 PM By Bill Tomson

You won’t find any tourists in the muddy, mosquito-ridden town of Barcarena in Brazil’s state of Pará, but you can’t miss the almost constant parade of trucks pulling in and out of port facilities under the scorching sun or torrential rainfall on the country’s northern coast.

Opinion: Farmers Worry

05/03/18 2:39 PM By John Block

Farmers, ranchers, and the whole ag industry have a lot to worry about.

Washington Week in Review: Sept. 13, 2019

House Democrats and the Trump Administration are ramping up negotiations on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement as Congress returns from recess. More on that and an update on U.S.-China trade talks and USDA's disaster aid efforts in this week’s Washington Week in Review with Ben Nuelle and Bill Tomson.