In two years, Milk for Well-being went from importing 40 percent of its inputs to supplying itself 100 percent with the production of Mexican cattle ranchers, highlighted Antonio Talamantes, director of the state-owned company.
Corn imports hit 12.28 million tons, almost all US yellow corn for livestock, while white corn for tortillas fell as domestic harvests stabilized supply.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the USMCA, public healthcare, trust in government, public funds, migrants, and the fertilizer plant.
OECD-FAO projections put Mexico at 10% of all corn traded worldwide by 2035, the widest gap between consumption and domestic production of any major buyer.
The figures represent the highest level recorded since data has been available, as subsidized US imports, droughts, and increased grain prices have battered Mexican producers.
Drought, the dumping of subsidized crops from the US, middle-men profiteering and falling prices have been indebting and ruining Mexico’s corn producers.
With trucks, patrol cars, riot police, and even an official tow truck, the police blocked vehicles carrying protesters, despite their right to public demonstration.
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
A US Supreme Court decision on cancer & agrochemicals is taking place as the Trump administration declares glyphosate a national security priority.
The treaty didn’t open a neutral market; it consolidated a mechanism in which Mexico absorbs subsidized grains that sustain income & territorial power on the US side of the border, while here, producers, communities, & margins of sovereignty are dismantled.