Sandro Steinbach and Shawn Arita—associate professors at North Dakota State University’s Agricultural Risk Policy Center—spoke about how international policies can ripple into agriculture. Their comments focused on tariffs’ broader effects on agricultural markets tied to global trade, including exposure to demand and pricing shifts in overseas buyers such as China.
The discussion centered on how agricultural decision-making can be shaped by policy choices made far beyond U.S. farm country, leaving producers to navigate uncertainty when trade barriers change the economics of export markets.