Tag: trade
Futures vs. cash prices: who wins war?
Marlin Clark offers insight into the conflicted grain futures markets.
It’s going to be a long, hot summer…
Alan Guebert digs into recent the recent actions of President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
Hey, rural America, do your civic duty. Or not.
Alan Guebert digs into the USMCA trade deal and takes a closer look at 2019 ag exports and the still-in-place tariffs that are clipping U.S. exports.
Soybean growers struggle a year after China tariffs
The past year has been the most challenging in a generation, U.S. soybean growers say, thanks to the trade war with China.
Welcome to paradise, er, paradox
According to Alan Guebert, there's a paradox occurring in today's commodity and financial markets. He sheds some light on it in his column this week.
Trade aid vs. prevented planting
Which option, Prevent Plant or MFP payments, would offer the most benefits to an individual farmer? There is no clear-cut answer, but, according to USDA, it does have to be one or the other.
Watching a train wreck happen
Alan Guebert scrutinizes President Trump's recent actions in working toward — or backpedaling out of — a trade agreement with China.
No clear trade strategy with Trump
If what we’re seeing now is the Trump trade “strategy,” export-dependent American farmers and ranchers are in serious trouble, according to Alan Guebert.
China’s administration of grain quotas breaches WTO rules
A World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found that China at fault with how it administers its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, corn, and rice.
Not easy making an egg out of an omelet
Alan Guebert weighs in on politics in the U.K. and at home, discussing the future of "Brexit" and international trade in the United States, respectively.
