S.C. Commissioner School for Ag and Australia to Accept U.S. Beef
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**It's like a summer prep school for future farmers from around the country, and it just wrapped up its 2025 session at Clemson University.
The South Carolina Commissioner’s School for Agriculture is a program that provides high school students with a week-long in-depth look at various ag and natural resources college majors and career paths.
The Commissioner’s School for Agriculture has graduated more than 600 students from 18 states.
**Tariff uncertainty continues to weigh on U.S. grain prices, and it’s causing a lot of countries to take a step back and re-evaluate, either at getting more negotiations done OR look at other routes to meet their needs.
Canada has a new tariff rate of 35%. Products included in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement are exempt.
Mexico has a deadline extension of 90 days before tariffs go into effect.
**For the first time in more than two decades, Australia
will accept shipments of fresh and frozen U.S. beef.
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Kent Bacus says this is a huge win.
He says Australia isn’t likely to be a huge export market, but it’s really about opportunities.
While the U.S. hasn’t exported beef to Australia since 2005, Australia has sold more than $28.7 billion worth of its beef to the U.S.
