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.”

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


Film at 11... 🤔

And if corn is so damn abundant, how come they charge almost a dollar an ear for it at da store..?? 😠

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.

we should start throwing all our cobs over da wall.... 😠

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

I think they just buy them from Sam's these days anyway.. 😟

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 )

I'm in AZ, we can get tamales like that on every other block.

Are you constipated again ? Somebody should tell TW.

You on the other hand are never constipated as there is a constant stream of sh*t that runs from your mouth...


[crapful]

^I think your emoticon is spewing in the wrong direction..
😁😁😁😯😯😯😁😁😁😁
Q

I know....closest I could come lol

great! they'll come back as baccy pipes.
Why do you hate Missouri?

🤣

Drafter, why are you so mad at your people? 😞

Okiemex?

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... 😟

He always spews in the wrong direction. I blame the poor education system, tho it could be the lead levels in the water.

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

Maybe you should try it - might make you less obnoxious.