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Mar 4, 2025

Trump’s tariff fight hits farmers and rural communities

President Donald Trump launched a tariff fight with major U.S. trading partners today by implementing 25% blanket tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and doubling tariffs on Chinese imports to 20%.

Jan 21, 2025

Trump Turns Back on Farmers, Rural Communities by Withdrawing from Climate Agreement

MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement once again is a blow to farmers and rural communities already battling with increasingly extreme weather linked to climate change, said the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). 

Dec 20, 2024

Civil society groups condemn USMCA dispute ruling on Mexico’s corn restrictions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Civil society groups in the U.S., Mexico and Canada criticized a decision today announced by a dispute panel set up under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Nov 7, 2024

US election results pose threats to fair food and trade systems, climate efforts

MINNEAPOLIS — The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy anticipates that the incoming Trump Administration will pose immediate and serious threats to our food and trade systems, relations with international partners and efforts to slow harms caused by climate change.

Sep 24, 2024

IATP statement on the CFTC approval of guidance to industry on voluntary carbon market credits

MINNEAPOLIS— On Sept. 19, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to approve final guidance to commodity exchanges planning to offer new derivatives contracts whose underlying assets are credits based on projects intended to reduce or remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Aug 27, 2024

Climate change poses risks to global cereal production and trade

MINNEAPOLIS—Out today, a new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) sheds light on the pressing climate challenges facing global cereal production and trade, with a focus on maize (corn), rice and wheat, which together account for over 60% of global food calories. The

IATP in the News

USDA Ordered to Restore Terminated Grants to Farmers, Nonprofits, Bloomberg
Pesticides, other ag inputs may bear brunt of tariff hikes, Agri-Pulse
Federal court orders Department of Agriculture to restore grants to farming organizations, AP
Federal judge rules some USDA grant terminations were illegal, POLITICO
Why Burgers Cost So Much Right Now, Bloomberg
Outcry as US agriculture department to cut salaries and relocate staff, The Guardian
Trade pacts trickle in, but details scant on benefits for US ag exports, Agri-Pulse
‘Farming in the dark’: Brooke Rollins’ leadership, DOGE’s grip and the cost to American agriculture, Investigate Midwest
Dust Storms Return to the Midwest, The Daily Yonder
California misleadingly markets farm-generated methane as environmentally friendly—a falsehood now exported nationwide, Prism
Minnesota agriculture institute joins lawsuit against USDA to save grant funding, The Minnesota Star Tribune
Report: A Pause to Land Conservation Programs Funding from USDA Could Kill Their Momentum, The Daily Yonder
Fighting for the Business of Agriculture and Trade, WCCO Radio
Big Beautiful Bill could aid Iowa stewardship, but we still need a farm bill, Des Moines Register
USMCA review could renew divisive country-of-origin label debate, Agri-Pulse
Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts, The Guardian
Trump’s Assault on Small Farmers, Mother Jones
Waiting for the harvest under the tariff storm: Trump factor paralyzes US farmers, El País