{"id":24949,"date":"2025-03-30T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24949"},"modified":"2025-03-30T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:00:24","slug":"grain-trade-heavy-across-canadian-border-ahead-of-tariff-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/grain-trade-heavy-across-canadian-border-ahead-of-tariff-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Grain trade heavy across Canadian border ahead of tariff deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NICOLE HESLIP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brownfield Ag Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A commercial elevator with business in Canada says grain movement has been heavier than normal to get ahead of next week\u2019s potential tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Geers is the Vice President of Operations at Michigan Agricultural Commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRight now we\u2019re working with these end users that say hey, can we work to move this product one or two months early to try and avoid tariffs on both ends?\u201d he explains. \u201cSo if space allows, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tells Brownfield sales have also been strategic to avoid the potential of running out of storage capacity, especially following last year\u2019s record corn and soybean production in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd then we also in anticipation, put on some early sales with end users to try and help mitigate that potential risk of filling up, so a combination of shipping some early and our ground piles helps,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geer says cross-border trade programs will continue to be evaluated throughout the uncertainty to see if alternative plans are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICOLE HESLIP Brownfield Ag Network A commercial elevator with business in Canada says grain movement has been heavier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-24949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-Ag-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24950,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949\/revisions\/24950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}