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Some U.S. farmers say a Mexican lawmaker’s plans to introduce a new bill requiring the country to stop buying American corn and shift those purchases to South America seems more like tough talk than anything else.


Mexico currently buys nearly all its corn from the U.S., totaling a quarter of all U.S. corn exports. While it’s a big market, American corn farmers describe it as a mutually beneficial relationship.

“It’s not going to make sense for Mexico to buy from South America, from what they’re saying because they are going to see 10 –12 --15% increase in their costs. And, then you’re [going to] have to ship it on top of that,” Chad Etheridge, CEO of Growing America and President of Farmers for Trump, told FOX Business. “The likelihood of them actually doing that and spending an extra 15%, just because they’re unhappy with us, doesn’t make a lot of sense,” he adds.

Currently, Mexico, which is the largest buyer of U.S. corn at 27%, (surpassing Japan last year, which fell to 22%), is also getting the crop at a very cheap price as the U.S. is seeing a surplus of the commodity in recent years.

“Corn prices are now below the cost of production. There is just a lot of corn sitting around because we’ve had several good years of corn yields,” Kurt Hora, a corn farmer from Washington, Iowa and president of Iowa Corn Growers, told FOX Business.

Additionally, Mexico is able to get U.S.-grown corn quickly because of the close proximity.

“We do rail, truck and ship access for them. Yes, other markets can do this but it will be harder for them logistically. From the U.S., they can buy it in a variety of different ways in terms of volume, too,” U.S. Grains Council CEO and President Thomas Sleight told FOX Business.

Last week, during an anti-Trump protest in Mexico City, Mexican Senator Armando Rios Piter said he plans to introduce a bill requiring the country to stop buying corn from the U.S. and shift those purchases to Brazil and Argentina. Piter later told CNN that the bill is a “good way to tell [Trump] that the hostile relationship has consequences.”

more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2017/02/22/corn-war-u-s-farmers-say-mexico-needs-american-corn.html


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I know your just having fun with that question as they're two different strains of corn, one is for human consumption and one is for agriculture. Let Mexico buy elsewhere....we'll still sell the excess to someone else, no biggie. Screw Mexico and their idle threats.

They forgot that they'll have to go without their husks for handmade tomales!!!

We have a great little Tomale restaurant here in Indy where they're still made homemade and wrapped in husks, they're REALLY GOOD!! ( Not necessarily cheap...but Oh so good )

Are you constipated again ? Somebody should tell TW.

^I think your emoticon is spewing in the wrong direction..
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great! they'll come back as baccy pipes.
Why do you hate Missouri?

Drafter, why are you so mad at your people? :(

no way man...
altho it's possible we enslaved some Mexicans back in the day... you know, to pick da corn and stuff.. it was the style at the time...

In your case it's a simple case of willful ignorance. But don't stop, you fill a niche.

There's a porn war?
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TCBY wants Tony to fill his niche while he screams "don't stop"?

...huh... I always knew they were flirting.

You never fail to go there....you should step out of the closet after all it's 2017 and society has been highjacked by a bunch of mental midgets who crave sex with the same sex....go ahead and thelebrate thilly. Hell you live in The Capitol of strange behavior gotta be a reason.

Says the king of the mental midgets as he chases a chicken and dreams about remodeling closets.

Paul, you sure you didn't mean rock, or bridge?

Oh tcby... what makes you think I'm not out of the closet?
I mean... you do realize that seeing a name here doesn't mean you know anything about the person right?
Hell... you didn't know I was an illegal Columbian immigrant... maybe I'm also a flamboyantly gay illegal Columbian immigrant.

I'm just pointing out the love affair you and Tony have had smouldering all this time. I mean... a flamboyantly gay illegal Columbian immigrant like me would probably be the best able to identify something like this. Maybe you need to take a hard look and really ask yourself... is it Tony's @ss or his chest that you think is most attractive thing you've seen in your life?

Like that's some sort of epiphany...

I blame the corn

Are you threatening me? "I am Cornholio! I need t.p. for my bunghole!"

ummm...yeah...we know he's got at least two legs...how else can he kick homeless people...and didn't one of the Victors play rugby?...need arms and legs to do that...and he said he might go fishing with us...need arms to do that...

Freak

Anyway, as normal, you clowns 🤡 have the whole thread gayed up. I'm fairly certain that most of South Americas corn crop goes to producing ethanol. It was a model the US looked at when it was our new cure-all for pollution. The problem was that they were/are using almost all the crop areas for corn 🌽 at the cost of not having enough land to grow food 🥘. Causing outside food to be bought which negated the viability of the idea.
For the US to follow suit, we would basically only grow corn on every farm and use it solely for ethanol. Which in turn would wreck Monsanto's hold on paying farmers to not produce any produce.
So it's unlikely Mexico will be buying corn that South America doesn't have to sell.

Anyway, back to closets, gays, and homeless stomping at rugby matches. All of which I have no problem with.

great memory!

I still think Kelly Ann Conway looks like Beavis.

I hate ethanol. .