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Members of Illinois Soybean Growers Association and a trade group of grain buyers from Sri Lanka inspect soybeans of Pioneer-DuPont Seed facility in Addieville, Illinois, September 19, 2018.

U.S. farmers scramble to contain trade war damage, find new markets

Replacing a customer the size of China, however, is proving to be a very tall order

By Karl Plume November 28, 2018

Clouds crowded the Illinois sky as Nick Harre walked away from his combine at the peak of harvest to join four fellow farmers in greeting some unlikely visitors. Inside a nearby seed barn, they made their pitch to eight Sri Lankan government officials: Please buy our soybeans. The wooing of such a tiny market underscores

Workers transport imported soybeans at a port in Nantong, Jiangsu province,  China April 9, 2018.

International news, News

As China soy demand wavers, U.S. farmers turn back to grains

It looks like soy will only be king of the U.S. Grain Belt for a single season

By Michael Hirtzer November 20, 2018

Reuters – Since the mid-2000s, North Dakota farmer Paul Thomas has planted more of his land with soybeans as China’s demand for the oilseed grew. The shift culminated this year when Thomas planted 1,600 of his 5,000 acres with soybeans — the most ever. But Thomas and many farmers like him plan to return to

Crops, Markets

Soybean exports face stiff U.S. competition

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 20, 2018

CNS Canada — Although the ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. has been a good opportunity for Canada to increase its soybean exports to China, industry experts say there have been tradeoffs elsewhere. That trade war between the world’s two largest economies is expected to continue, or perhaps flare up, as the G-20

A Farm Credit Canada report says Canadian canola exports to the U.S. have dropped by 11.8 per cent and down 10.6 per cent to China.

Markets, News

China/U.S. trade disruptions a big reason for canola, wheat price volatility

Farm Credit Canada releases new report regarding commodity prices

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 31, 2018

Prices for canola and wheat are volatile thanks to world trade tensions, including trade disruptions between China and the United States. The volatility is a cause for concern according to Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) new report, Navigating Trade Disruptions and Volatility, released Oct. 31. The price uncertainty can lead changes in the markets and if

Scooter LaPrise, 53, herds his cows into the milking parlour for the morning milking at EMMA Acres dairy farm, in Exeter, Rhode Island, U.S., 7 April, 2018. Scooter shouts “Come on, Ladies!” as he directs his cows from their stalls into the milking parlour. Scooter with his wife has about 30 cows on one of eight remaining dairy farms in Rhode Island.
Photo: Reuter/Oliver Doyle

Dairy cattle

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel October 26, 2018

Madison, Wisconsin/St. Claude, Manitoba | Reuters – Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century. With U.S. milk prices in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply, Fritsche, 58, is unsure whether

Dan Strieggl and his son Issac inspect new farm equipment at the 2018 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, U.S.,  August 28, 2018.

News, Other

Trump trade war delivers farm boom in Brazil, gloom in Iowa

So far U.S. farmers have been the biggest casualty in the early trade battles

By Jake Spring And tom Polansek October 22, 2018

Reuters – The Bella Vita luxury condominium tower rises 20 storeys over the boom town of Luís Eduardo Magalhães in northeastern Brazil. Its private movie theatre and helipad are symbols of how far this dusty farming community has come since it was founded just 18 years ago. Local soybean producers shell out upwards of a

Comment, Opinion

Comment: Winning the trade war?

Will the U.S.-China trade war end up worthwhile for U.S. soybeans?

By Karen Braun October 16, 2018

China’s absence from the U.S. soybean market has put tremendous pressure on both soybean growers and Chicago-traded soybean futures over the last several months. But the United States’ new trade pact with Mexico and Canada may offer some hope for a similar outcome with major U.S. trade partner China. The United States and Canada reached

Markets

U.S. seen likely to win in effort to shut down WTO’s appeals court

By GFM Network News, Tom Miles October 6, 2018

Geneva | Reuters — The United States is likely to succeed in shutting down the World Trade Organization’s supreme court because other WTO members are powerless to stop it, diplomats, lawyers and officials said at a conference in Geneva on Friday. The United States has blocked appointments of judges to the Appellate Body, throwing the

Then-Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier speaks at the party's leadership convention in Toronto on May 26, 2017.

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: A big boom

By Gord Gilmour August 30, 2018

It’s been quite the week in Ottawa. Even in the midst of harvest it was impossible to ignore the very public departure of former leadership front-runner Maxime Bernier from the Conservative Party of Canada’s benches. He didn’t just burn the bridges as he left, he took the time to dynamite the piers as he went,

Tariffs from both trading nations took effect amid mid-level talks in Washington. Photo: claffra/iStock/Getty Images

Other

U.S.-China talks on trade war resume as new tariffs kick in

By David Lawder, GFM Network News August 23, 2018

Beijing/Washington | Reuters – The United States and China escalated their acrimonious trade war on Thursday, implementing punitive 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other’s goods, even as mid-level officials from both sides resumed talks in Washington. The world’s two largest economies have now slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on a combined $100 billion of products

Daily Network News

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

Record large Canadian wheat and canola crops: Statistics Canada

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