MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) — Much like last year, a hot topic at the Minnesota Agriculture Expo this year has been focused on international trade, but after 365 days of work, the United States started coming to terms on agreements and hopes are that momentum continues in 2020.
Trade deals, such as the USMCA trade agreement and China talks, were headlines for most of 2019 as trade talks between the U.S. and China, along with Mexico and Canada, took place throughout the year.
“Throughout the whole year we worked on this stuff and it didn’t come to fruition until the end of ’19, beginning of ’20, so it’s just like a crop, so even though the growing season was bad or not as good as we hoped with the water, but we look at what the crop has produced now, which is two trade agreements,” said Bill Gordon, president of the American Soybean Association and a farmer in the Worthington, Minnesota, area.