
Oliver Ward
Trade Editor at Agri-Pulse
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 Trade reporter for @agripulse Serial retweeter. Into graphs. Formerly @insidetrade. Words in @openDemocracy, @LondonEconomic
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1 week ago |
agriculture.com | Oliver Ward
As U.S. negotiators emerged from meetings with their Chinese counterparts in Geneva last month touting a deal that would roll back some of the tit-for-tat tariffs imposed since President Donald Trump took office, Brazil’s President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva was headed to Beijing to promote potential deeper agricultural trade ties with China amid heightened U.S trade tensions.
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1 week ago |
agri-pulse.com | Oliver Ward
As U.S. negotiators emerged from meetings with their Chinese counterparts in Geneva last month touting a deal that would roll back some of the tit-for-tat tariffs imposed since President Donald Trump took office, Brazil’s President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva was headed to Beijing to promote potential deeper agricultural trade ties with China amid heightened U.S trade tensions.
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1 week ago |
agriculture.com | Oliver Ward
Renewed conflict in the Middle East has shuttered urea production in Iran, sending ripples through global fertilizer markets and adding to existing uncertainty around Russian and Chinese supplies, analysts tell Agri-Pulse. Tensions flared between Iran and Israel on Friday when Israel launched what it called a preemptive missile strike targeting Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership.
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1 week ago |
agri-pulse.com | Oliver Ward
Renewed conflict in the Middle East has shuttered urea production in Iran, sending ripples through global fertilizer markets and adding to existing uncertainty around Russian and Chinese supplies, analysts tell Agri-Pulse. Tensions flared between Iran and Israel on Friday when Israel launched what it called a preemptive missile strike targeting Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership.
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2 weeks ago |
agri-pulse.com | Oliver Ward
Tariff increases and U.S.-China trade tensions since January have triggered net export losses of around $2 billion for U.S. farmers, with lost Chinese sales dwarfing modest gains elsewhere, a new study says. The study from North Dakota State University’s Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies finds that between January and April, U.S. agricultural exports to China contracted by more than $5 billion, leaving export volumes some 55% lower than the previous year.
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U.S.-China trade tensions have led to US $2 billion in lost ag exports, report says https://t.co/ETdHv1NAPI

At a parenting class this morning the teacher had us practice swaddling while she blasted crying baby sounds over her speakers. Great to find a disciple of Rassie Erasmus in the wild. https://t.co/VBFy9oe83w

Trump will nominate Doug Hoelscher, an Iowa veteran of the first Trump administration, to serve as USTR chief agricultural negotiator, according to people familiar with White House plans. https://t.co/zj4kYcBFyB