tariffs

A recent agricultural roundtable presented two key takeaways for farmers: find ways to reduce their reliance on China as a market and don’t count on Market Facilitation Program payments to become permanent. About three dozen people attended the roundtable at...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a county Market Facilitation Program payment schedule for growers with commodities that have been affected by foreign retaliatory tariffs. The assistance covers specialty crops, non-specialty crops, dairy and hogs. The rates range from...

The value of Arkansas’ No. 1 crop fell by 15 percent in 2018 as the effects of an ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China took hold through the summer. A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

With a focus on economic development, the South Carolina agricultural industry is poised for positive productivity in 2019. This was the message Clemson experts gave during the recent third annual Ag Outlook conference. Clemson agricultural economists Nathan Smith, Scott Mickey,...

Heavy rains covering much of Arkansas, beginning late last week and continuing through the weekend, have further slowed harvest for both cotton and soybeans. And weather damage is already causing significant discounts in payout to growers, experts with the...

Worldwide demand for U.S. soybeans remains strong in the midst of a trade war, and China still needs America’s soybeans, according to an Louisiana State University AgCenter report on trade tensions with China. “There are, as yet, no signs of...

China is following through on its threat to implement a 25-percent tariff on U.S. soybean imports, affecting not only the farmers who grow the crop but also the transportation sector that exports it. Half of the top 10 U.S. soybean-producing...