Wild chart — obviously this trend started under Biden but hard to see how a trade war will improve these numbers.

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Climate change is playing a role https://www.csis.org/analysis/climate-change-and-us-agricultural-exports

Solid paper there, with a few minor nit picky items.  

Climate smart ag funding has been getting chopped up and exposed and some farmers have been skeptical about the funding efficacy 

see

Farm Journal received $40 million dollars to promote "Climate Smart Commodities" from the USDA 💰

Has anyone involved in Farming in the US benefited from this?

"The up to $40-million partnership will support different approaches to testing and evaluating climate-smart data and… https://t.co/eS4zL3uggp

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Solid paper there, with a few minor nit picky items.  

Climate smart ag funding has been getting chopped up and exposed and some farmers have been skeptical about the funding efficacy 

see https://x.com/grainstats/status/1900333193460338792?s=46&t=TVy9rDl3UkuxmVj4e18bOA

I would say this is more reflective of continued growth in importing high value commodities - fruit, veg, seafood etc. as we continue to eat an expensive per capital and labor costs forced the trend toward import for the higher value crops.

Also, higher value commodities have continued to increase in production in developing countries since the turn of the century - think SA frozen fruit etc.

We primarily export lowe value commodities (grains) and random high value crops (almonds).