Yesterday, the Farm Credit Administration released its quarterly report addressing economic issues affecting agriculture on the Farm Credit System.
USDA’s quarterly agricultural trade forecast projects fiscal year 2021 U.S. farm exports at $164 billion — the highest total on record.
According to the report “World: Prepared Fruits – Market Report. Analysis And Forecast To 2025,” recently published by IndexBox, the amount of prepared fruits and nuts exported worldwide stood at 7 million tons in 2016, rising by 4 percent against the previous year’s level. The total export volume increased at an average annual rate of […]
U.S. ag exports totaled $140.5B in fiscal year 2017, climbing nearly $10.9B from the previous year to the third-highest level on record.
This week Senators Angus King (I-ME), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the “Cultivating Revitalization by Expanding American Trade and Exports (CREAATE) Act” to boost two federal programs critical for expanding global access to U.S. agricultural export. The CREAATE Act would increase the funding for the Foreign Market Development Program […]
After President Trump’s Cuba policy announcement Friday, several agricultural stakeholders have sounded off in disapproval. The new policy will keep U.S. companies from doing direct financial transactions with companies controlled by the Cuban military. “Cuba should be an easy market for U.S. corn farmers. Instead, that market has gone to our competitors—costing us an estimated […]