…year earlier. Butter imports were fewer than a year earlier during July–September for the first time in several years. However, milk protein concentrate imports rose by more than a third…
Indonesia Planning to Stop Corn Imports by 2018 or Sooner
Indonesia plans to halt imports of corn by 2018 “at the latest,” according to the country’s agriculture minister. Pro Farmer’s First Thing Today reports Indonesia’s government is working to boost…
China: Potential Trade War Not a ‘One-Way Street’
…other campaign pledges. Still, as Bloomberg reports, the message from China is that any move to tax Chinese imports would bring retaliation, the U.S. economy would take a hit and…
Mexico Loaded Up on Corn Ahead of U.S. Election
…Traders and industry analysts report that Mexican demand for U.S. grain imports has since slumped. However, they also stress that Mexico has few other options for grain besides the U.S….
Overseas HPAI Outbreaks Prompt Import Restrictions
…nine months of 2016. Separately, the Ukraine News Agency reported an immediate ban on poultry imports from Hungary and Bulgaria following confirmation of HPAI and Newcastle disease virus. The Newcastle…
Farm Groups Begin Lame-Duck TPP Push
…wheat imports with countries like Vietnam. And U.S. wheat exports face similar tariff disadvantages in several other countries that want to join TPP but cannot apply for membership until after…
Dairy Industry Segment Doesn’t Want TPP
…dairy industry isn’t so sure TPP will be beneficial in its current form. The Wisconsin Farmers Union surveyed 1,000 dairy producers and 80 percent expressed serious concerns about milk imports…
West Coast Ports Improving Infrastructure, but More Needed
…domestic origin for exports and domestic destinations for imports are not measured. This report further states that this information could help DOT to assess international trade flows within the United…
September Meat Exports Strong
…percent in Japan ($132.1 million) and 83 percent in Korea ($86.6 million). Japan’s imports of U.S. chilled beef surpassed chilled imports from Australia for the first time ever in September,…
Agri View: Cotton Picking
Everett Griner talks about cotton picking, imports and exports in today’s Agri View. Cotton Picking Well, cotton picking has begun but pickings will be kind of slim in some places…
Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Oppose TPP
…of the 1,000 farmers surveyed favored Congress rejecting or placing a moratorium on TPP. The farmers want concerns over imported Milk Protein Concentrates and other low-cost imports resolved. The Wisconsin…
Agri View: Export Trade
…Some of our imports are the same thing we export. Fruits especially. But we don’t export coffee, tea or cocoa. Because, we don’t produce any of that. That’s Agri View…
October Dairy Market Report
…increasing during the first half of 2016. Case in imports have dropped by double-digit percentages all year, but the percent of total U.S. production represented by imports continues to rise…
Biodiesel Industry Urges Extension of Tax Incentive
…and billions of dollars in economic activity. Additionally, reforming the incentive would save the Treasury some $90 million as imports are reduced and domestic production rises, according to the Joint…