Hi-Line Farm & Ranch December 2016: The future of ag trade and the TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations is unlikely to be ratified during the lame duck session or after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, and this is not necessarily a good thing for agriculture producers in Montana and the U.S., some ag and economics experts in the U.S. say.

“Agriculture played very little if any role in the calculus of the politics in the election,” Vince Smith, professor of economics at Montana State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, said.

Trump said Nov. 21...