Apr 13, 2018
On today’s episode: Grain market update; tariff concerns for ag trade; Kansas weather
Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Eric Atkinson and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.
00:01:30 – GRAIN MARKET UPDATE – K-State grain
market economist Dan O'Brien talks about the positive takeaways
from the monthly USDA grain supply and demand report released
earlier this week, and he talks about solid soybean export business
despite all the trade tariff concerns, during his weekly analysis
of the grain market trends
00:13:00 – TARIFF CONCERNS – K-State agricultural
economist Vincent Amanor-Boadu takes a closer look at the recent
"trade interventions", as he calls them, and the impact on U.S.
agricultural trade that's already happening, although the tariffs
have yet to go into effect...he says that years of successfully
building markets for U.S. commodities abroad are being put at risk,
in an effort to shore up U.S. products that has been less
successful in the world marketplace
00:24:25 – KANSAS WEATHER – K-State climatologist Mary Knapp reports on Kansas agricultural weather
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