An Urban's Rural View

Would rejoining TPP take the sting out of retaliatory tariffs from China?

The U.S. is signaling Japan it wants a bilateral trade deal. The Japanese are signaling they want the U.S. to return to the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership. It's an exchange of signals with real consequences.

The first press conference of the new Federal Reserve Board chairman hints at the Fed raising interest rates higher than it was forecasting under his predecessor.

The last real trade war 80 years ago probably did not turn a recession into the Great Depression but it did hurt exporters. So could a trade skirmish today, which is why agriculture is right to be concerned.

The nomination of Iowa's agriculture secretary to a top USDA post was put on hold for four months by a Texas senator bent on gutting ethanol blending. We discuss Senate holds, and the advantages and disadvantages of checks and balances more broadly.

Chipotle Mexican Grill built its marketing around attacks on competitors' reliance on conventional agriculture for ingredients. Now it's hiring a CEO who comes from one of those competitors.

Pundits have had little to say about the president's recently announced willingness to reconsider the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Maybe they don't know whether to take him seriously.

Michael Lewis's book "The Undoing Project" goes a step beyond his "Moneyball" and explains how and why experts sometimes get things wrong.

The fundamentals are bearish for the dollar, and while a declining dollar is good for ag exports, it isn't an unalloyed blessing.

Inflation is picking up, and while prices are still rising at rates central bankers consider safe, some economists are starting to worry.

Startling statistics show that increasingly it's rural areas and small towns rather than big cities that are dogged by social problems.

Why the divisions between urban and rural, liberal and conservative, have intensified, and what to do about it.

No matter who prevails in a legal battle at the World Trade Organization pitting China against the U.S. and European Union, the result could disrupt the international trade system.

A report on DTN/The Progressive Farmer's 11th annual Ag Summit.

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research makes the case for public-private partnerships as a way to get more high-value ag research for the limited public funds available.

Agriculture groups' pleas not to withdraw from NAFTA displease Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

The administration's failure to negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Japan raises questions about the president's notion that the U.S. can replace multilateral arrangements like TPP and NAFTA with bilaterals.

A survey of the history of Spain provides unexpected insights into the history of agricultural relocations.

Washington still hasn't come up with a plan to pay for big infrastructure investments -- and doesn't seem to be looking very hard.

The world's biggest restaurant chain is promising healthier and more "sustainable" food even as it doubles down on courting its traditional customers.