APCA Export-Based Prosperity for US Crop Agriculture: Long Promised; Will It Happen? Daryll E. Ray University of Tennessee Agricultural Policy Analysis.

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APCA Export-Based Prosperity for US Crop Agriculture: Long Promised; Will It Happen? Daryll E. Ray University of Tennessee Agricultural Policy Analysis Center American Corn Growers Association 22 nd Annual Convention Coralville, Iowa January 15, 2009

APCA Trade Is Important It always has been … –From colonial times forward –Product mix has changed It always will be … –A need for ag products in other countries –We have the capacity to produce the products But...

APCA Can We Expect Trade To … Be a permanent source of ever increasing US agricultural prosperity Correct the long-term price and income problems in agriculture

APCA What Were We Thinking … Why would we expect trade to deliver us to the Promised Land? 1970s Syndrome –Earl Butz said … –The outsized export share of the 1970s has been viewed as US property from then on –When exports slowed in the 1980s … Been on a quest to recapture the Golden Age of Agriculture (1970s) Lowered Loan Rates (Heh, that’s the ticket!) Moved from supply management to writing checks

APCA What Were We Thinking … Why would we expect trade to solve US price and income problems? Because we are confused! We implicitly think US agriculture would be just fine … –If only “such and such” were removed or different Complete access to all international markets Exchange rates were different Inflation were reduced Subsidies were eliminated Etc., etc. –After these “such and ‘suches’,” the importers would import more and our export competitors would export less And all would be fine in the world that is agriculture Ag prices and incomes would be stable and “high”

APCA So What’s Not Considered ? FOOD IS DIFFERENT –Food is a national security issue—just like military security is to the US. So … Countries want to domestically produce as much of their food as possible Political considerations –Need to feed the population –Need to provide a living for millions in agriculture –Need an orderly exit of workers out of agriculture Suppose there had been total access to all international markets this past year –Vietnam, Thailand and scores of other countries…

APCA Food is Different … It is a daily biological requirement: A moral imperative As a result the aggregate demand for food is relatively stable –People will pay almost anything (or as much as they can) when food supplies are limited and prices are high –When prices are low they will not pay any more than necessary –When prices are low people may change their mix of foods and add services, but aggregate demand increases very little—people do not eat four meals a day in response to lower prices Food demand changes little in response to changes in price

APCA Food is Different … It is the result of biological processes These are more constrained than the manufacturing processes of other products –Limited annual production periods Frost-free days in temperate zones Timing of rainfall in monsoonal zones –Constrained by natural forces Temperature Weather –As a result, the precise production controls available to other sectors are not available to most crop production Crop production changes little in response to changes in price within a crop season

APCA Food is Different … Contrary to other industries, when prices are “low”— even across production seasons… –Farmers continue to plant all their acres –Farmers don’t and “can’t afford to” reduce their application of fertilizer and other major yield- determining inputs –Who farms the land may change –Essential resource—land—remains in production in the short- to medium-run Crop production changes little in response to changes in price from one year to another

APCA Chronic Problems Persist Except for short periods, production outstrips demand –This is a good thing –Butz had it right except for one word Excess capacity in the future will be a worldwide problem –Increased acreage –Increased yields When prices decline, self-correction does not work –Quantities demanded and supplied change little

APCA Expecting Trade To … Deliver US agriculture to the promised land of unending prosperity with no government intervention is too much to ask –WTO or no WTO, US agriculture exports will be limited by The nature of agricultural importers’ demands The nature of US’s agricultural export competitors’ supply –Therefore we should expect continuing periods of low prices when agriculture cannot self-correct on its own

APCA What About Exports? Index of US Population, US Demand for 8 Crops and US Exports* of 8 Crops 1979=1.0 US Population US Exports US Domestic Demand *Adjusted for grain exported in meat

APCA What About Exports? Developing competitors: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam 15 Crops: Wheat, Corn, Rice, Sorghum, Oats, Rye, Barley, Millet, Soybeans, Peanuts, Cottonseed, Rapeseed, Sunflower, Copra, and Palm Kernel Thousand Metric Tons US Exports Developing Competitors’ Exports

APCA China Net Corn Trade China Net Corn Trade Comparison between 1996 and 1999 FAPRI projections, 2007 USDA projections and USDA PS&D actual 1996 FAPRI Projections of Net Corn Trade Actual Net Corn Trade 1999 FAPRI Projections of Net Corn Trade Corn Exports Corn Imports Mil. Bu. Overtime, the expectation remains—just further into the future USDA Projections of Net Corn Trade

APCA China Grain Trade Grains: Net Exports Source: USDA PS&D

APCA Chinese Soybean Imports

APCA Soybean Complex Exports

APCA Soybean Area and Chinese Imports

APCA WTO … Does not account for the unique nature of food and agriculture Needs to understand the difference between DVD players and staple foods Needs to be reformulated or replaced with an organization that recognizes the need for… –Food reserves to address the inevitable shocks to the availability and price of food –Promoting increases in worldwide productive capacity, especially each country’s domestic production –Addressing Agriculture’s inability to gauge the use of productive capacity to match demand by creating methods to overcome –Agriculture’s inability to self-correct

APCA Finally … (Other) statements that lead farmers and others to erroneous conclusions: 95% of the world’s population is outside the US … Increases in per capita income and growth or the middle class in China and India … The value of the dollar has decreased this export season …. The value of US agricultural exports has increased substantially …

APCA What About Exports? Billion Dollars Bulk Exports Total Agricultural Exports

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