Build Global Demand 

Much has been said about the U.S. farmer's ability to compete in the world soybean market in the face of steadily increasing competition from Brazil and...

The Changing World Grain Market 

By Richard Brock

Years ago, I was taught in grain marketing class that the function of price is to ration supply. If we have too much of something the function of price...

EU TO REFORM AG POLICY 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

The European Union (EU) member states reached an agreement to delink, or separate, farm subsidies from production and gradually reduce those subsidies...

Kick-Starting Trade 

By Karen Simon

U.S. soybean farmers continue to export more soybeans each year, but competition for global market share grows more intense. Fortunately, U.S. farmers...

USDA Signs MOU With Mexico 

USDA

Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mexico's Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources...

NCGA Applauds House Decision to Support WTO Case 

National Corn Growers Association

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) applauds the House of Representatives for passing Tuesday H. Res. 252, supporting a case in the World Trade...

ASA Reaffirms Support for WTO Biotech Case Against the European Union 

The American Soybean Association

The American Soybean Association (ASA) urges the Bush Administration to continue pressing European leaders to institute science-based approval processes...

U.S. and Cooperating Countries File WTO Case Against EU Biotech Moratorium 

USDA News

U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick and Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman today announced the United States, Argentina, Canada and Egypt will file a World Trade Organization (WTO) case against the European Union (EU) over its illegal five-year moratorium on approving agricultural biotech products....

Ag Trade Deficit In 2002 

Compiled by Greg Lamp

The U.S. recorded an agricultural trade deficit in 2002 for only the second time in history and ran up another record-high total trade deficit last year,...

The China Syndrome 

By Larry Stalcup

The Chinese are demanding more out of agriculture, and it's not just better rice. They want nicer shirts and trousers. They want higher-quality cotton...