A professor of agricultural economics in the College of ACES at the University of Illinois says a new study shows U.S. agricultural imports now exceed exports, and the trade deficit is expected to worsen. Lead author William Ridley says America’s once healthy trade surplus has evaporated. “Exports have largely been chugging along at the same […]
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