As net agricultural exporting countries have worked to improve their access to foreign markets, the less competitive nations have increased their efforts to reverse the trend. Trade Creating Competitors As net agricultural exporting countries have worked to improve their access to foreign markets, the less competitive nations have increased their efforts to reverse the trend. China is urging its producers and agribusinesses to collaborate, merge and grow bigger. Like Brazil, it envisions controlling major international grain companies by 2020. By contrast, Japan’s goal is to copy the EU and instead dominate in high value/value-added food products. The question is whether Washington allows its once dominant farmers and agribusinesses to lo...

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