Progressive Ag Marketing President Ray Grabanski was featured in the Red River Farm Network Market Outlook Forum at the Big Iron Farm Show and said the U.S. lost export business when the war broke out in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine need to raise cash to fund the war and have been very aggressive wheat sellers. “I think that our demand has been sapped away because of this whole Ukraine conflict for the last two-and-a-half years.” Many nations that disagree with U.S. policies are, ironically, also its biggest agricultural customers. China is one example. “Now with the flare-up in the Middle East, the United States is on the wrong side of our Middle Eastern customers there so it’s not been good for demand.”
