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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
Church Brothers Farms has added Martin Sotelo as the new senior director of raw product procurement for the U.S. and Mexico and Mike Reed has been promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Stater Bros.
USA Rice’s board of directors have tapped Peter Bachmann as the next CEO of the organization and Deanna Kovar has been named as the new president of John Deere’s Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division.
USA Rice’s board of directors has tapped Peter Bachmann as the next CEO of the organization, succeeding Betsy Ward, who has been at the helm for the last 16 years.
The lead ag negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative says the U.S. has been “heavily engaged” with the Indian government on agricultural issues, including India’s recent export ban of long grain, non-basmati rice.
Haiti is the largest foreign market for U.S. milled long grain rice and the escalation of gang violence there is threatening the ability of the U.S. to export grain to the country.
India says its latest ban on rice exports is an effort to fight domestic food inflation, but the U.S. rice sector says the measure will add large quantities of cheap grain to the international market and push down prices that American farmers get for their crop.
U.S. trade policy should not be focused on using American might for deals to increase exports, but rather trading access to U.S. markets in return for influence on foreign countries, according to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
A broad coalition of countries is making a last-minute push to change World Trade Organization rules and allow governments to increase farm subsidies and accumulate massive stocks of grain that can be dumped into the global market.
Public protests in communist Cuba are rare, so when people recently took to the streets to demonstrate in protest against the government, the world took notice and America’s ag sector is still weighing the implications for trade between the two countries.
