As I alluded to in my opening remarks, trade agreements are so important for stability. As a farmer, I can work with supply and demand. I can read the charts and get a sense of where I need to be. It's those tariffs, and more importantly, non-tariff barriers that are a challenge for me and my farm. We ran into that with India. Overnight they slapped a tariff and phytosanitary bans on pulse products entering our largest import market for our pulses from Canada. Overnight that market disappeared. That was a crushing blow for our industry, and it's a segment in the pulses that we're trying to develop now. The same goes for China, where we had issues with black blight. Is that based on sound science, or is there some other reason? Again, without having any kind of trade agreement with the markets, you can spend a lot of time developing a market and a relationship to have that end in a heartbeat.
On February 18th, 2020. See this statement in context.