China imported no soybeans from the U.S. in September, the first time since November 2018 that shipments fell to zero, while South American shipments surged from a year earlier, as buyers shunned American cargoes during the ongoing trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
A local Iowa farmer killed themself recently due to the current state of affairs. I emailed Chuck Grassley to let him know that his constituents have started committing suicide thanks to his choices and those of his admin, and that he has literally blood on his hands. It’s not even bad out there for farmers yet, but it’s about to be, and that fear has been enough for people to give up.
Genuine ask, it (feels like) more and more fields have been shifting to soybeans for more than a decade. Who else is a major importer that justified the swing from corn and feeder silage, before China got on board?
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
For the first time in 7 years? Hmmm, would that make it Biden or Obama’s fault then?
This is a trick question. It was Hillary’s fault.
Nope it was Mustardgate and Tansuitgate
Too many buttery males
Spin the wheel, donny. Let’s see who takes the blame this week on “IT!” “WASN’T!” “ME!”
Sadiq Khan’s fault.
Mia Wong of Cool Zone Media has been screaming this from her own mountains of madness since at least April 2nd. This is going to cause cascading impacts across the economy
We’re at war with a far right authoritarian government intent on destroying our way of life and conquering the entire world. The Chinese Communist Party has to be stopped at all costs. This is a small price to pay in order to bring an end to Xi’s Totalitarian Regime.
Google “Tiananmen Square” and then get back to me, if you don’t think this is serious.
I’ll take “this fucker doesn’t know how anything works” for $200, Alex.
You’re at war with two far-right authoritarian governments, and they BOTH want you to work yourself to death.
had me in the first part, the US is indeed far right and authoritarian. and must be stopped. 😉
What do you think about Israel?
Totally cool. Russia too.
Don’t feel bad, but your takes don’t meet the minimum threshold for me to take you seriously.
It’s not the same person,so I think they’re mocking the person the question was originally for.
And Argentina stepped in and sold their entire crop to China. All orchestrated by Trump.
This should mean lower prices on soy beans and related goods for people in US, correct? Supply and demand? I works doesn’t it?
Well, yeah, but let’s say that you buy a truckload of soybeans. What do you plan to do with it?
Ever read Grapes of Wrath?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/1015/soybean-farmers-trump-bailout-china
Mr. Trump has angered many farmers by providing economic aid for Argentina, which almost immediately responded by suspending its export taxes on soybeans and other goods. That allowed China to buy a large lot of Argentina’s soybeans at a discount, further undercutting U.S. soybean farmers. Farmer sentiment – a measure of how farmers view their financial future – fell last month, reversing all the gains it had made since Mr. Trump’s election last year, according to the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index.
When America’s soybean exports diminish, farmers in Brazil and elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere expand their acreage and grow more soybeans for export, diminishing U.S. farmers’ market share. That’s what happened in Mr. Trump’s first trade war with China in 2018.
South American farmers are beginning to plant their soybean crop. If there’s no imminent sign of a U.S.-Chinese arrangement over soybeans, then they have more incentive to increase soybean acreage. That’s a long-term threat, Mr. Gerlt says, because once in cultivation, those acres don’t go away.
How long before US starts to import soybeans?
Farmers have mostly voted for Trump, so may they reap what they have sown.
Except for the soybeans. They likely won’t be reaped.
farmers…reap what they have sown
Dammit. I wish I’d come up with that one.
Actually thinking about the idiom, I wonder if people used to complain a lot about the types or quality of vegetables they grew. It might be purely metaphorical, but I can definitely imagine it, having lived in a place where the owners didn’t box in their zucchini and I had to eat it twice a day for two months. I have a bunch of bomb zucchini recipes, including a self created prize winning quiche recipe (it’s just good homemade crust with an egg and no water, blind baked, then filled with zucchini rounds about 4mm thick sautéed with balsamic vinegar and rosemary, a little bit of good Parmesan and only two eggs in a 2:1 ratio with heavy cream- I don’t have it more precisely at hand rn), but I couldn’t enjoy it for a decade afterward.
But they keep getting bailed out, so no, they don’t learn.
That’s what happened in Mr. Trump’s first trade war with China in 2018.
Whomp whomp.
Lo— uh-oh…
Nice.
Trump has been the bully is whole life who everyone backs down from. He cannot imagine anyone fighting back. And if they do they’re cheating, scamming, being dishonest.
We ought to stop funding South American countries then. Either start using the soy domestically, or start planing stuff that Americans eat. Maybe even focus on native plants that aren’t patented and owned.
Fuck soy anyway.
Adding this as a footnote to the Black Book of Communism
Wait, a buyer having a choice of sellers, and choosing to go with the lowest price is… communism?
Well you see, Communism is when people do things he doesn’t like
lol … communism is bad … unless they invest in your economy
That’s not real Communism
Of course not. Where’s the progroms? The mass murder? The restrictions on the press?
Gaza and Myanmar and South Sudan, mostly. Although the US is coming up fast.
So I guess they’re the communists.
