Items Tagged with 'economy'

The latest “Feeding the Economy” report shows that the food and agriculture sector was responsible in 2023 for $9.6 trillion of U.S. economic activity – $1 trillion more than in 2022.

The farm economy is generally solid despite recent volatility in commodity prices and rising anxiety over input costs.

Lawmakers worried that China could gain control over the U.S. food system through land purchases are looking to curb the nation's grip on American farmland, despite no evidence of a spike in land sales to Chinese interests, according to an Agri-Pulse analysis of Agriculture Department data.

Marshall Matz takes a quick look at where the U.S. ranks in the world in a variety of categories.

Finally, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are going to sit down to dinner in Buenos Aires and try to end the tariff war.

As the world’s two largest economic powerhouses entered a formal trade war last week, the United States stood alone in its dispute with China, lacking the support of our traditional allies.