Friday Feature: American Agriculture is Losing the Trade War in the Food Commodity Export Market

by | Oct 31, 2025 | Ag in the News, Corn, Economics, Feature Video, Field Crops, General Agriculture, Market, Soybean, Wheat

This week’s featured video was produced by Bloomberg Television.  In this video, David Westin traveled to Iowa to meet with farmers, and industry executives to discuss the current state of row crop agriculture.   What he learned was very concerning.  The U.S. has been losing the last three years in the trade war on the food commodity export market.

America’s farms are more productive than ever, but farmers are facing rising input costs and shrinking export markets. In Iowa, farming runs in the blood and families are fighting to keep their legacy alive amid a growing agricultural trade deficit. Once seen as the ‘supermarket of the world’, US farmers are looking for ways to make up the difference domestically, processing about a third of American corn for ethanol and gasoline, but the long-term future of US farming hinges on a more robust export market.  David Westin

Watch the video to gain a better understanding of why the world is turning away from American agriculture.

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