Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff talks with the United States, its top negotiator said ...

Donald Trump is pressuring Tokyo to buy Californian rice, as a national shortage exposes the country’s deep-rooted resistance ...

The Senate passed a $66B farm bill with updates to ARC, PLC, crop insurance, and tax relief. Key differences from the House ...

Mr Trump’s social media post on Monday came as Tokyo raced to persuade Washington to drop a 25 per cent tariff on cars and 24 ...

US President Donald Trump’s latest gripe is that Japan apparently isn’t queueing up to buy enough American rice ...

Immigration enforcement operations on farms have left crops rotting and farm operations disrupted in major agricultural ...

That 700% figure, which Japan’s farm minister called “incomprehensible,” is not quite true. In 1995, after facing a rice crisis in 1993 and mounting pressure from the world to open up its ...

The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated 95.2 million acres of corn planted in the United States for ...

The price of American rice has plummeted 37 percent in the last year. Last May, it was around $19 per hundred pounds (hundredweight, or cwt), or $8.50 a bushel. This May, it hit a low of $12 cwt ...

Japan’s farm minister has stepped down after drawing public backlash by remarking, at a time of record food prices, that he “never had to buy rice” thanks to supporter gifts.. Taku Eto’s ...

Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff negotiations with the United States, its top ...

Under a "minimum access" agreement within the World Trade Organization, Japan has a 770,000-ton tariff-free import quota for rice, of which up to 100,000 tons is for staple rice.