Mexico Ready to Play the Corn Card in Trade Talks

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The prospect that the United States could lose its largest foreign market for corn and other key products has shaken farming communities throughout the American Midwest, where corn production is a vital part of the economy. The threat is particularly unsettling for many residents of the Corn Belt because much of the region voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Trump in the presidential election.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mexico-ready-to-play-the-corn-card-in-trade-talks/ar-BBzeLyw?li=AA4Zpp&ocid=spartanntp

[Cha]

1. KR!

[SharonAnn]

29. NAFTA destroyed the corn market in Mexico, so many rural families moved to the US

A large part of the influx of Mexican immigrants after NAFTA was because their livelihoods, corn farming, was destroyed because the US corn was cheaper. With no other jobs in Mexico, many families moved to the us.

In other words, we caused a lot of the immigration.

[Warpy]

2. I know and I think it's great

if Brazil can supply the demand without more deforestation.

[Kittycow]

5. Argentina can sell them corn also.

I'm down with it since I read on DU that Argentina is taking in the refugees that trump and therefore his voters don't want here.

I wonder if the corn farmers will in turn get a government bailout. Those moochers.

[NBachers]

3. Nuthin' I can do about it, ladies and gentlemen - you voted for him; you deal with it. 'Bye now . .

[Kittycow]

6. Ya dance with those who brung ya!

ETA: according to the article, one farmer is going to write trump a sternly worded letter

Idiots. Did these farmer trump supporters not get that NAFTA was their engine for corn exports?

[murielm99]

12. The joke is on us, too,

if the agricultural markets here fail, so will many other things.

We are farmers. We are Democrats, activists for Democratic candidates and farmers. We plant corn and beans.

I know at least three other Democratic farmers here who are active Democrats. Farmers in Minnesota are usually Democrats.

Don't be so quick to tar everyone with the same brush.

[NanceGreggs]

7. So many political observers predicted ...

... that the first to be hurt by Trump's policies would be those who voted for him.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Same Grain Traders just different Countries.

Yup,they voted for him and like a good Republican he is,he will screw them big time.

[world wide wally]

9. WTF did anyone expect?

Warmer trade relations with Mexico?

[workinclasszero]

10. Stick it to those Trump loving republican farmers Mexico!

[msongs]

11. how will they get all that corn over the wall? nt

[malaise]

14. As you make your bed

so shall you lie

[HoneyBadger]

15. Not understanding how this works

When it is summer here (June to September), it is winter there. Ie the growing seasons are opposite. So obviously, the fresh corn market is not what we are talking about. Is this mostly about high fructose corn syrup?

[The Big Ragu]

18. I was going to mention something

but, er . . .

[HoneyBadger]

19. Ok, have atlas

Brazil and Argentina are over there, we are over here

[hack89]

26. My apologies - I understand your post now.

pre-coffee thinking is not my forte! Sorry.

[Mendocino]

24. Mexico is in the Northern Hemisphere

same as the US. They too are just finishing winter. When it's summer in the US, it's overwhelmingly hot in Mexico.

[Kolesar]

27. NAFTA allowed (subsidized) American corn farmers to undersell Mexican maize farmers

A million maize farmers lost their livelihoods. Half of them moved to the big cities and half of them moved to the United States. Maize and maize flour stores well. Hence, it need not be fresh.

Pardon the snottiness of my long term DU partner.

[democratisphere]

17. Perhaps the corn farmers may finally understand which side drumpfanov

stands on and that the corn farmers don't actually matter. This is YOUR president really screwing you. Further, this is the same illegitimate president that continually bitches about trade deficits.
.

[HAB911]

20. voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Trump

fuck 'em

As long as I can still buy Made in Mexico tortillas, that is

[ananda]

21. You reap what you sow.

Quite a pun, but anyhow ...

Vote for a sociopathic monster and you
Deserve whatever you get.

As for the rest of us, well, we're the
resistance.

[Vinca]

22. Trump will insult them and send more corporate welfare to the factory farms.

[roamer65]

23. Mexico is a sovereign nation.

They can buy corn whenever and wherever they choose.

[sweetapogee]

25. simple economics

If Mexico were to find a source other than the US that can deliver the quantity of corn at a price level it is willing to pay then there will be a lot of unsold inventory on the world market. This will force the global prices downward even for the suppliers who Mexico uses to fill the gap left by the US. It will be the same effect that increased production of oil by OPEC has had on world oil prices. And just like oil, someone will buy that corn because it will be a bargain.

So I think the end result will be that farmers in other countries will be impacted negatively same as those in the US. The distillers of ethanol and beef ranchers in the Midwest are probably salivating over the possibility of a glut in domestic corn. Should be interesting to watch. Good thread.

[dalton99a]

28. And 97% of Trump voters will vote for him again

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/22/how-many-trump-voters-really-regret-their-votes/

Of the 339 poll participants who originally voted for Trump, only 12 (3½ percent) said they would do something different.

Only three individuals (fewer than 1 percent of Trump voters) said that, could they go back in time, they would cast their vote for Clinton.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

30. The Mexican government is considering an increase in domestic production.

Varieties of Mexican corn displayed in Oaxaca.