US Ag Trade DEFICIT !

[moguldreamer]

Originally Posted by JONOV

Costco has some good buys on wine, they also have wine that sells for over $100/bottle.

[Tall Traveler]

Originally Posted by txfriend

Exports haven’t tanked. It’s just that imports have gone up.

Americans are buying more agricultural imports — like avocados from Mexico, coffee from Brazil

and canola oil from Canada.

It has less to do with food and more with the strong American dollar.

“A strong dollar makes our exports noncompetitive overseas, and it makes imports more competitive,”

Good post, yeah if the USD drops, I would expect us to have an ag surplus again.

[Northrick]

Originally Posted by JONOV

Because we are sufficiently wealthy to do so. We are sufficiently wealthy that people think nothing buying citrus and produce that was produced abroad. At Costco yesterday, there was a whole aisle of cheese. Cheese from Norway that sold for $7/lb. Spanish Manchego at $10/lb. Peccorino Romano, also $10/lb. 365 days a year people buy fresh apples in the grocery store, and no one thinks that's unusual or luxurious.

Here in Anchorage, Alaska, you can buy oranges and grapes in the middle of winter - that came from Chile. That's nearly from one end of the earth to the other.