AOA-February 24, 2022

<p>Thursday, on AOA; the drums of war started banging Wednesday night across Ukraine as Russian forces advanced in to that country. That action roiled the markets, so Jim McCormick of AgMarket.Net joined the show to look at the immediate market reaction to the news; then Maria Zieba, Associate Vice President of International Affairs discussed the possibility of the US rejoining the CPTPP trade group, though emphasized that there will be a long discussion before it happens. In segment 3, Arlan Suderman of StoneX reviewed the impacts of the invasion on the US dollar, the energy complex, and the fertilizer market. And pork is still finding lots of buyers in Asia, as Courtney Knupp, Vice President of International Market Development at the National Pork Board emphasized.</p>