American agriculture is already facing a less affluent future. Commodity prices have softened, and South America now dominates the global export market. The U.S. share of global agricultural trade has fallen by two-thirds. Major importers have typically chafed under their dependence upon foreign food suppliers, and they are adopting improved cultivation practices. This year, global buyers of America’s major export crops (wheat, corn and soybeans) will import 4 percent less than the year before. Now the sector faces additional strong headwinds from the policies of the incoming Trump Administration. Rob Fox, director of Cobank's Knowledge Exchange says, "many of the policies proposed by the incoming administration would likely have a negative...