Policy, trade, taxes highlight Farm Futures Business Summit A special edition of the Around Farm Progress podcast offers a sneak peek, or listen, to key speakers on tap for the in-person event
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Policy, trade, and taxes can impact your farm, but having the right insight can help you make targeted decisions for the future. And these are hot topics at the upcoming Farm Futures Business Summit in Iowa City, Iowa June 16 and 17. In this special edition of the Around Farm Progress Podcast, Mike Wilson, editor, Farm Futures, chats with three speakers for the upcoming event.
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China’s impact on grain markets
Gregg Doud, former U.S. trade ambassador and one of the primary architects of the U.S.-China Phase 1 trade deal, will be a keynote speaker and is expected to share his experiences on international trade.
“Stepping up to China should have been done a long time ago,” says Doud, now chief economist at Aimpoint Research. “It was a historic time for agriculture to have that conversation with China about agriculture, and it had never happened before.”
Doud will offer an inside look at what it was like to negotiate the deal and work in the Trump administration.
Taking a closer look at how outside markets can sometimes influence our industry. (audio)
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Grain prices have struggled in recent sessions, with corn, soybean and wheat contracts suffering moderate to heavy losses on Wednesday. Supply, demand and weather fundamentals are all factors, but were other outside factors also creating cascading losses?
In particular, we took a closer look at Dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies, which have seen steep declines recently as investors have begun to lose faith in their moneymaking potential. That in turn influenced the Dow and S&P 500, which each fell around 1% today.
Was Dogecoin’s influence all bark and no bite, or did it have a measurable impact on grain prices as well? Farm Futures grain market analyst Jacquie Holland has her doubts, but that led to a discussion about overall volatility for grain prices, weather concerns moving forward, the prospect for an uptick in ethanol demand and