Source: Keith Good, FARM POLICY NEWS, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, 6/27/18


News articles over the past several days have highlighted heightened U.S. trade policy risks and recent declines in the price of corn and soybeans.  Farm state Senators expressed their concern regarding executive branch trade policy, and its impact on the U.S. agricultural sector, to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross at a recent Finance Committee hearing.  Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue indicated in a recent opinion column that, “The U.S. has to stand up to China’s abusive trade practices like intellectual property theft.  And we won’t leave farmers to face Chinese bullying alone.”

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