Ep115: BRICS is a Symptom, Not a Threat, with Rob Fox and Tanner Ehmke of CoBank

21/05/2025 54 min
Ep115: BRICS is a Symptom, Not a Threat, with Rob Fox and Tanner Ehmke of CoBank

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Show Highlights: Grain's global oversupply and the myth of 10 billion mouths to feed. [05:53] Prospects for biofuels amid surplus grain production. [08:08] Post-China grain export market - can we replace lost demand in the aggregate? [10:07] The free trade "hard reboot" and shift from multilateral to bilateral agreements [17:49] Ag market access and protectionism in Japanese rice and Canadian dairy. [27:26] BRICS and de-dollarization is not the competitive threat we need to worry about. [32:15] The inefficiency burden of diversifying U.S. grain exports. [42:37] Preparing for growth despite market headwinds. [48:34] CoBank Knowledge Exchange: https://www.cobank.com/Knowledge-Exchange/ Rob Fox on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-gregory-fox/ Tanner Ehmke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerehmke/ To sign up for the KED Gleanings weekly newsletter, contact Jacqui Fatka at [email protected]  

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