The following op-ed was distributed to newspapers across Ohio for publication. It was co-authored by Adam Sharp, executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, and Eric Burkland, president of The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association. Ohio’s farmers are enduring a tough year,…
Ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement remains a top priority of the Trump administration, and it is top of mind of trade-war-weary farmers and everyone involved in the agriculture industry. USMCA, the renegotiated trade deal between the three North American…
Representatives from the United States and China got back to the negotiating table in January during a temporary tariff ceasefire between the two countries. China also slowly started to buy more soybeans from American farmers at the end of 2018….
Despite the signing of the new trade agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico Nov. 30, work remains as the focus now shifts to Congress and its ratification. The new free trade agreement that took more than a year…
As the trade and tariff war between China and the United States continues, business and government officials from Ohio’s sister state of Hubei Province met with their counterparts in Columbus recently to talk about what the two regions have in…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced details of $12 billion in short-term relief to farmers as a trade and tariff impasse remains between China and the United States. USDA will offer three programs to assist agricultural producers: The Market Facilitation…
The Trump administration announced a $12 billion aid package in late July aimed at helping farmers hurt by the administration’s ongoing trade war with China and others, including traditional allies in the European Union and ongoing, unsettled North American Free…
State Farm Bureau presidents urge U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Perdue to work with President Trump to end the escalation of trade disputes with China.
As trade questions persist, grain farmers and their overseas markets are ground zero in the debate. As more and more headlines speak of trade tariffs, trade wars and import/export markets, it’s good to be reminded of what these issues mean…
When U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue planned his third “Back to Our Roots” RV tour, chances are an accelerating trade war with China wasn’t on the agenda. Yet it was top-of-mind for farmers, who made up much of the…
