A new initiative aims to shift some crop production from increasingly water-scarce, heat- and fire-scorched California to the Mid-Delta. Rice is key to the plan.
The complaint, the 15th filed against China by the Obama administration since 2009, argues that China is not “transparent, predictable or fair” in its administration of tariff-rate quotients, which protect its domestic farmers by taxing imports at a higher rate.
The United States filed a complaint Tuesday against China for violating World Trade Organization commitments by excessively subsidizing its corn, wheat and rice production — hampering the global sale of American commodities in the process.
Arrest warrants have been issued for a Nicaraguan grains business owner and his daughter after the pair failed to pay $2.5 million to Archer Daniels Midland for import contracts. The Nicaraguan grains business allegedly failed to pay millions of dollars to Chicago-based agriculture superpower ADM fo
