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USDA Agricultural Projections
to 2018 (February 2009) is used to consider
the outlook for U.S. agricultural trade with Mexico
and the Central America and Caribbean region. A presentation
on the outlook for U.S.-Mexico
agricultural trade was delivered
by ERS researcher Steven Zahniser on March 24, 2009 at
the Ninth
Outlook Forum of the Agrifood and Fishing Sector,
organized by the Mexican
agricultural secretariat’s
Agrifood and Fishing
Information Service (SIAP).
A similar presentation
on the outlook for U.S. agricultural trade with the Dominican
Republic and Mesoamerica (Belize,
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama) was delivered
on April 24, 2009 at the Inter-American
Development Bank. Contact: Steven
Zahniser.
The North
American Agri-food Market Integration Consortium (NAAMIC)
is the sponsor of a series of annual workshops on the integration
of North America's agri-food sectors. The 2008 workshop,
held May 22-23, focused on the new generation of standards
affecting agricultural trade among the NAFTA countries.
NAAMIC is a joint activity involving USDA's Economic Research
Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Animal Plant
Health and Inspection Service; the Farm Foundation;
the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
(IICA); Mexico's Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock,
Rural Development, Fishing, and Food (SAGARPA); Texas A&M
University's Agricultural and Food Policy Center; and the
University of Guelph. Contact: Steven
Zahniser.
Integration of the U.S. and Canadian animal-product markets varies
greatly, according to an article by ERS economists Thomas Vollrath
and Charlie Hallahan in the March 2006 Canadian Journal of
Agricultural Economics. By analyzing monthly and weekly price
data during 1976-2001, Vollrath and Hallahan determined that the
U.S. and Canadian markets for hogs and pork were more closely integrated
than the corresponding markets for steers and beef. By contrast,
the two national markets for whole chicken were found to be segmented,
due presumably to the fact that poultry is a supply-managed sector
in Canada. Contacts: Thomas
Vollrath and Charlie
Hallahan.
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