How U.S. exports are faring in the world wheat market, (EXCERPT), Monthly Labor Review Online, October 1985

How U.S. exports are faring
in the world wheat market

Todd Darr and Gerry Gribbons

In January 1985, a major U.S. grain merchant announced plans to import foreign wheat for processing in the Mid-west.¹ Prices for this wheat were below those quoted by any U.S. supplier. While the unprecedented plan was canceled due to strong protests from agricultural interest groups, it provides an extreme example of what many in the U.S. agricultural community claim is a growing problem—the erosion of the U.S. share of the world wheat market. The likelihood of similar incidents in the near future has caused a great deal of concern among export-dependent U.S. wheat farmers, currently burdened with huge excess stocks, and policymakers in the process of preparing the 1985 farm bill.

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Footnotes

1 Wendy L. Wall, "U.S. Isn't Any Longer Cheapest Source of Some Kinds of Grain for Domestic Use," The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 14, 1985, p. 2, col.3.

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