Corn and soybeans rule the American farm. Why that is a growing problem, in charts. Huge crops and diminished demand for USA products, due to Trump's trade wars, are pressuring the profits of farmers (including the racist farmers who voted for Trump).
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 September 2025
Huge crops in the 'corn belt' hit cash-strapped farmers in the USA with more unease. Farmers are about to harvest their largest corn crop ever, but that does not mean more profit, as corn prices remain near multi-year lows.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 August 2025
Record high temperatures in Nihon, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, is prompting worries over rice crops in Nihon. The worries are about drought, and a proliferation of stink bugs in some rice-growing areas.
- Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025
Angry farmers in South Korea vow to fight if the government signs an unfavorable trade deal with the USA that gives socialistically-subsidized farmers in the USA greater access to the beef and rice markets of South Korea
- Bloomberg, 30 July 2025
Editorial: if Trump really wants to encourage companies to use more costly cane sugar, he could dismantle [socialist] USA federal policies that give corn syrup a cost advantage
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 July 2025
The USA and Nihon sign a trade deal whereby the USA will impose a tax/tariff of 15% in imports from Nihon. Nihon will also invest $550 billion into the USA.
- Comcast's CNBC, 22 July 2025
The USA and Nihon sign a trade deal whereby the USA will impose a tax/tariff of 15% in imports from Nihon. Nihon will also invest $550 billion into the USA.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 July 2025
The USA and Nihon sign a trade deal whereby the USA will impose a tax/tariff of 15% in imports from Nihon. Nihon will also invest $550 billion into the USA.
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 22 July 2025
Automobile stocks in Nihon jump after the USA and Nihon sign a trade deal. Toyota rises 10%, Honda 8%, Nissan 7%, and Mazda Motor 16%
- Comcast's CNBC, 22 July 2025
Automobile stocks in Nihon jump after the USA and Nihon sign a trade deal. Toyota rises 10%, Honda 8%, Nissan 7%, and Mazda Motor 16%
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 22 July 2025
Automobile stocks in Nihon jump after the USA and Nihon sign a trade deal. Toyota rises 10%, Honda 8%, Nissan 7%, and Mazda Motor 16%
- Zero Hedge, 22 July 2025
Automakers in the USA - GM, Ford and Stellantis - complain about the trade deal with Nihon, which imposes taxes/tariffs of 15 on imports of vehicles from Nihon to the USA of 15%, while the American car companies have to pay taxes/tariffs of 25% on imports of their vehicles from Canada and Mexico
- Thomson's Reuters, 22 July 2025
The USA dollar is under pressure in comparison to the yen, after the USA and Nihon sign a trade deal
- Thomson's Reuters, 22 July 2025
Global food prices are spiking up, due to extreme weather caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. Staple foods - including potatoes, rice, onions, lettuce and fruit - are rising in price due to the effects of extreme weather.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 July 2025
The Liberal Democrat pary of Nihon, long dominant, suffers election losses and loses control of both chambers of its legislature, with voters giving more support to two right-want nationalist parties. The high price of rice was an important issue in the recent voting.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 July 2025
Disruptions to the government of Nihon over the ruling party's recent election losses could complicate reaching a trade deal with the USA by August
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 July 2025
Poor Bangladesh is 'forced' to sign a wheat-import deal with the USA to reduce Trump's threats of taxes/tariffs. Bangladesh prefers importing wheat from the Black Sea region due to its lower costs.
- Comcast's CNBC, 20 July 2025
Has the 'rice minister' of Nihon reducde the prices of rice enough to revive his Liberal Democratic Party before upcoming elections?
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 July 2025
Will high rice prices in Nihon cause huge problems for the government, adding to inflation and a strong yen, could hurt government bonds of Nihon
- Zero Hedge, 08 July 2025
Recent studies show high lives of arsenic in rice (due to naturally-occurring arsenic in the soil). How to eat rich safely.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 July 2025
Trump threatens Nihon with new taxes/tariffs, claiming Nihon will not buy much rice from the USA
- Warner Brothers CNN, 30 June 2025
Bharat is allocating record rice volumes for ethanol production as it struggles with unprecedented inventories that are likely to swell further with the arrival of the new season crop, a reversal from earlier shortages that led to export curbs.
- Thomson's Reuters, 26 June 2025
War, inflation and now drought are hitting global food supplies. Staples including wheat, beef and coffee are all being affected by the lack of rainfall. In some cases, prices are climbing to record highs.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 June 2025
"Amber waves of grain" recede in the heartland of the USA, as wheat farmers struggle as wheat prices decline to five-year lows. With prices hovering around $5 per bushel, U.S. wheat farmers have reached an inflection point, with many forced to either lose money, feed wheat to cattle or kill off the crop.
- Thomson's Reuters, 19 June 2025
No imports needed this year: the wheat harvest in Bharat defies market speculation. Early state inventory purchases signalling that this year's crop is about 4 million tons bigger than last year's.
- Thomson's Reuters, 28 May 2025
Bharat hopes for more rice exports in Asia, with rice prices stabilizing in Asia after they spiked over supply concerns resulting from the conflict between Bharat and Pakistan
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 19 May 2025
Scientists in Zhōngguó unlock the genetics of drought-tolerant rice. It will take about 8 to 10 years to produce a stable and widely adoptable rice variety through crossbreeding.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 07 May 2025
Once shunned by consumers in Nihon, rice from Korea is being readily bought in Nihon. Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many people in Nihon are doing what was once unthinkable -- buying a foreign variety.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 April 2025
Buyers in Asia are shunning agricultural products from the USA, due to problems with shipping and Trump's tax/tariff trade war
- Thomson's Reuters, 09 April 2025
Is Indonesia's planned rice megaproject doomed to fail? Poor soils and dry climate could undermine effort to expand rice growing by 1 million hectares, experts warn.
- Science, 04 April 2025
Wheat prices are predicted to jump (unusually unfavorable weather conditions, and dwindling Russian wheat inventories). Consider buying WEAT - the Tecurium Wheat ETF.
- Barron's, 08 March 2025
"It will not come back" - farmers in Argentina battle drought and a shrinking harvest
- Thomson's Reuters, 03 February 2025
Improving corn prices offer a kernel of hope for farmers. Prices for corn in the USA appear to be rebounding ahead of the next planting season for U.S. farmers, this after tumbling last year to their lowest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 January 2025
Will Zhōngguó rely more on Argentina to fill its import gap for grain products? Wheat and see. The first wheat shipment from Argentina to Zhōngguó suggests a deeper trade relationship could occur in the coming years.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 03 December 2024
Wheat traders in Argentina are seeking to close their first significant sales to Zhōngguó since the 1990s, according to the head of thetop crop-exporting group in Argentina, CIARA-CEC. The wheat traders are positioning to exploit Trump's coming tax/tariff war with Zhōngguó.
- Buenos Aires Times, 28 November 2024
Rice inventories in Bharat surged to an all-time high of 29.7 million metric tons in November, sources said on Friday, nearly three times the government's target, as export curbs imposed over the past two years bumped up local supplies.
- Thomson's Reuters, 08 November 2024
A big corn harvest in the USA pressures Chicago prices to four-year-low amid severe farm income downtown. Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade slid under $4 a bushel in recent weeks, nearing early 2020 lows. Prices have been halved since peaking around $8 in April 2022. Money managers have increased bearish bets on the grain to the most in three weeks.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 August 2024
Hedge funds boost bearish bets on corn to record, driven by elevated grain supplies and the best early crop ratings in years. These factors have pressured corn prices lower.
- Zero Hedge, 16 July 2024
Farmers in the USA hoard corn like it is 1988, as corn prices have dropped for the last six quarters
- Zero Hedge, 08 July 2024
Farmers in the USA are not selling to buyers, retaining their unsold corn as prices slump, with prices hovering above three-year lows
- Thomson's Reuters, 17 June 2024
Wheat jumps to nine-month high on fears of dwindling global stockpiles
- Zero Hedge, 28 May 2024
Exports of grains such as corn and wheat from Ukraine return to levels before it was invaded by Rossiya. The flow of grain ships through ports in the Odesa region is a welcome boost for the war-ravaged economy of Ukraine. But analysts warn it may not last.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 May 2024
Prices for corn drop to 3-year lows as supplies expected to surge to levels reported in 1987 in the USA. The current predictions are that there will be higher domestic crop supplies and elevated spring plantings.
- Zero Hedge, 16 February 2024
The European Union demands that Hungary, Poland and Slovakia open their broders to imports of cheap and poor quality grain from Ukraine
- Zero Hedge, 16 February 2024
Why farmers are again marching toward Delhi, the capital of Bharat. This time they want a stronger guarantee that they can make money selling their wheat and rice crops. This time, the central demand of the farmers concerns something called the minimum support price, or M.S.P. They want it to be increased, adding a 50 percent premium to whatever it costs them to produce wheat and rice.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 February 2024
Corn and wheat prices post the largest yearly decline in decade as hope for easing food inflation rises. "The price decline was driven by bumper crops in key crop suppliers Brazil, USA and Rossiya following years of disruptions.".
- Zero Hedge, 01 January 2024