Touch the Soil News #1475 (Feature photo – Global Trade – Public Domain) Foodmarket News brings us an interesting insight into the trade war between the U.S. and China. Interestingly, like any war, both sides are losers and it is the people at the bottom of both nations that suffer the most. Because U.S. trade…
Touch the Soil News #1425 (Feature photo – A European Airbus Jumbo Jet – Public Domain) Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert brings us the latest discord in the trade wars that look to jump from China to the European Union. At the heart of the matter is subsidized air transport for $25 billion of food products…
Touch the Soil News #1412 (Feature photo – Aquaponic Farm – By Lili Stewart – ATSDR (part of the CDC) series of state-specific fact sheets. Bitmap versions have been seen on US Embassy websites. Direct PDF URL [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14801188) The U.S. agricultural sector plants around 90 million acres of soybeans every year –…
Touch the Soil News #1407 (Feature photo – Soybean Fields – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Alfonso) DTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton brings us the story of how a disappointed China is looking to find other sources for food commodities than the United States. COFO, China’s largest agricultural enterprise is going…
