China shuns US soybeans in trade war retaliation.
Argentina’s Soybean Exports Surge
Please note White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero
A photographer’s snapshot of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the United Nations General Assembly last week revealed a private message that captured the Trump administration’s deepening concern over collapsing U.S. soybean exports to China—a crisis now entangled with a controversial economic bailout of Argentina.
“Finally – just a heads up, I’m getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate,” read the message, which appeared to be sent from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine’s [sic] are removing their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”
The photo, taken by Angelina Katsanis for the Associated Press, quickly circulated across social media, particularly in Argentina, where soybean exports have indeed surged in the wake of new economic aid from the U.S.
No Buyers in Beijing
China, once the largest buyer of American soybeans, has not purchased a single shipment since May, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. In 2024, China bought $12.5 billion of the $24.5 billion worth of soybeans the U.S. exported globally—more than 50 percent. For months now, the figure has been zero.
Soybeans account for 14 percent of all U.S. agricultural exports, making them the top food export by value. Farmers and trade officials say the loss of the Chinese market is not only destabilizing current revenues, but also threatening the long-term viability of American farms built to meet Chinese demand.
Overall U.S. soybean exports are down 23 percent year-over-year.
“Farmers are suffering terrible losses,” Jennifer Fahy, co-executive director at Farm Aid, a nonprofit organization advocating for farmers, told Newsweek, adding that these are “not economic blips, but potentially long-term or permanently lost markets due to ricocheting tariffs.”
“They [farmers] are telling us they’re losing $100 to 200 an acre this year,” she said.
China, meanwhile, has turned decisively toward South America. Chinese companies have secured 12 million metric tons of soybeans from Brazil and Argentina for delivery through October, entirely skipping U.S. suppliers during their primary marketing window.
Crop Diplomacy
Even with U.S. soybeans trading $40 per ton cheaper than Brazilian cargoes, Beijing’s 34 percent tariff makes them uncompetitive. A growing number of farmers are now bracing for what they describe as a second wave of losses, unless negotiations yield a breakthrough.
“We’re going to take some of the tariff money — relatively small amount, but a lot for the farmers — and we’re going to help the farmers out a little bit,” Trump said last week, acknowledging the predicament with a voting bloc that heavily skews Republican. Yet no formal plan has been announced, and he appeared to confuse “millions” and “billions” when describing the potential aid.
“We don’t want aid payments,” Brian Warpup, a fourth-generation farmer in Indiana, told the AP. “We want to work. The worst thing that we could ever want is a handout.”
China Weaponizes Soybeans
Politico comments China weaponizes ag imports to target Trump and US farmers
Trump launched his tariff war earlier this year expressing confidence that China’s reliance on the U.S. market would force Beijing to accept trade terms that benefited American businesses and consumers. Six months after the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and weeks from the Nov. 10 White House cutoff for a trade pact between the two countries, U.S. soybean farmers are learning that China — long the predominant market for their product — doesn’t need them anymore.
China has not purchased any U.S. soybeans since May, according to the American Soybean Association. Beijing has pivoted to suppliers in Brazil and Argentina — logging huge orders for Latin American beans and leaving U.S. farmers in the cold and panicking.
“How can we be surprised? It’s a repeat of Trump 1.0,” said Marc Busch, who has advised both the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department from 2012 to 2018 on trade and is a professor of international business diplomacy at Georgetown University.
The effective boycott of the U.S. soybean industry at the height of the September harvest season suggests more than just a tit-for-tat import curb. The midwestern soybean producing states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Indiana are a key political constituency for the GOP in the run-up to congressional midterm elections next year.
“The Chinese want Trump to feel the pain by having U.S. farmers say ‘This guy is really costing us big time,’” said Harry Broadman, a former assistant U.S. trade representative in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. “They want to get out of the [soy trade] relationship with the U.S. because it’s punishing them with tariffs, but they’re also doing so because they know that these are in areas where votes matter.”
It’s a strategy that appears to be working. Powerful agriculture lobbying groups, traditionally Trump allies, have flooded the White House with complaints that the tariffs are responsible for China’s snub of the U.S. soybean crop.
Amid the outcry from farmers, Trump announced Thursday that he plans to use tariff revenue for cash bailouts to farmers “until the tariffs kick in to their benefit.” That will require congressional approval and aid likely won’t reach farmers until early 2026.
“Why would USA help bail out Argentina while they take American soybean producers’ biggest market??? We shld use leverage at every turn to help hurting farm economy Family farmers shld be top of mind in negotiations by representatives of USA,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in an X post Thursday.
The longer-term outlook for a return to large-volume soybean sales to China looks equally grim. Beijing’s distrust of the durability of Trump administration trade pledges — and Xi’s drive for self-sufficiency to insulate his economy from foreign pressure — may mean that U.S. farmers have lost access to the Chinese soybean market for the foreseeable future.
A Lose-Lose Setup
In August, Trump urged China to start buying soybeans again, posting on social media, “I hope China will quickly quadruple it’s soybean orders.”
Why would they?
Actually, there is an economic answer. Even with Chinese tariffs, US has a price advantage.
However, like Trump, China doesn’t care how economically stupid tariffs are. So Chinese buyers suffer and US farmers suffer.
Trump’s Idiotic Solution
Trump’s idiotic solution is to take tariffs collected from US consumers and give the money to US farmers.
Trump also proposed to give consumers a rebate and balance the budget with tariffs.
Pig will fly before that happens.
No one wins trade wars.
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Like oil, the grain market is global. What China buys from South America the customers left to buy elsewhere can buy from the US (the inefficiency in shipping should help the shipping companies….). Soybeans have been trading in a narrow range between $10 and $10.50 since last year. The low prices are global oversupply with weaker demand. China cutting off US purchases of soybeans had minimal impact on price.
If the US Government had refrained from flooding the world with US dollars beans could be trading around $6-$7.
Boom! Problem solved!
Trump Promises to Allocate Tariff Revenues to Bail Out U.S. Farmers – Gateway Hispanic
Depends on which problems Trump is trying to solve?
Using tariffs to bail out farmers to make them ‘whole’ again – check
Bringing the government budget deficit/debt down – fail
Making American produce wanted (farming) goods again – fail
Back in spring I reported that I would not be planting corn or soy on my farm.
For a couple of years I have been buying neighboring land and building soils on my cropland as well as diversifying to higher value boutique crops and honeybees.
Farmers talk ~ and when I made the shift out of corn and soy completely this year more than one eyebrow was raised. I was extremely careful not to alienate myself politically from the local farm crowd. I have a trump banner, flag and stickers to prove it…
The profitability of my diversification has been an extraordinary success and I am quite certain that I will pick up some more depleted land as farms go bankrupt under Trumps disastrous policy.
Elections have consequences!
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What’s a “boutique” crop…..kale?
It is natural for farmers with high debt and marginal land to go bankrupt, it brings up the prices eventually. Marginal land is more expensive to farm, lower yield and higher fertilizer expense etc. (that is why it is so cheap). I have toured organic and boutique farms and the ones I have seen are inefficient and difficult to scale. There is a market where elites are willing to pay high margins for special produce but the people willing to pay can only eat so much. Good luck with your endeavor but focus on costs so you don’t end up like the farmers you are buying the land from.
Mish, what is left out of this is that Brazil blew by the US in soybean production in 2016 and hasn’t looked back. Due to their location on the globe, Brazilian soybeans have significantly higher protein and oil content. Our pharmaceutical and seed companies breed for yield. The higher the yield, the lower the protein and oil. It is also a major issue of value. Each bushel of Brazilian soybeans is worth 5-10 percent more. The lower our price gets, the more buyers are apt to buy.
Also, in the last 10 years, we’ve increased the speed of farming by more than double. This creates Chicago dust storms btw. US farmers get blown away on machinery efficiency. Recently, I was asked to advise a farmer with a 1.3 debt/asset ratio who has 3x or more machinery than he needs. This is over 10 million on-farm assets.
I’m shocked that banks allowed this to happen. Small-town banks trying to compete with Farm Credit do crazy things.
More to this story…Btw, not a Trump fan at all. Not counting for AI, we likely have 40-60 percent more farm operations than needed to produce. We have far more family units trying to live off of an acre than do other nations.
Keep in mind that Trump needs 91-year-old Charles Grassley, whose family farms a lot.
Brazil is also not likely to get in a war over Tawain.
Great analysis. Reminds me of Orion Samuelson.
I’ll take that compliment.
“I’m shocked that banks allowed this to happen. Small-town banks trying to compete with Farm Credit do crazy things.”
Seriously? Banks in small towns are connected by politics, church and family. All sorts of LTV issues plague their books because of “relationships”.
It is a good idea for me to go golfing once in a while with the loan officer from our local bank…
Some days I feel like a vulture in a tree, just waiting for the weak to tip over.
No tofu for you!
Corn farmers rotate corn and soybeans in their cornfields to replenish the soil. Bad soil, less corn, less beef, less pork, less chicken. For us.
Neither corn nor soybeans “replenish” the soil. Both deplete the soil and require fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.
Clover, buckwheat and a few other cover crops “replenish” soils…
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Odd. I was always told that farmers rotate soybeans to replenish the soil. So I asked CoPilot:
Absolutely—they’re soil superheroes in disguise 🌱. Soybeans, like other legumes, replenish nitrogen in the soil through a natural process called symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
🔬 How It Works
• Rhizobia bacteria live in nodules on soybean roots.
• These bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen (N₂) into ammonia (NH₃), a form plants can use.
• After harvest, leftover plant matter (roots, stems, leaves) decomposes, releasing even more nitrogen into the soil.
🌾 Benefits for Soil Health
• Adds 30–50 lbs of nitrogen per acre—reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.
• Improves fertility for future crops like corn or wheat in rotation systems.
• Minimizes nitrate runoff, which helps protect groundwater.
🚜 Practical Takeaway
Farmers often rotate soybeans with heavy nitrogen-consuming crops to restore soil balance naturally. It’s a cornerstone of sustainable agriculture and a smart move for long-term yield.
Until Trump, they could sell soybeans, so they had an economic advantage.
Vote for Trump, lose the farm. Western democracy doesn’t work since people keep on voting against their own interests.
Georgia Farmer here. This is exactly what those (I didn’t vote for Kamala nor Trump) farmers voted for. For the trump voting farmers, their hate, racism and bigotry mattered more than having a market for their crops or workers to pick their crops. Driving through South Georgia you no longer see the “Farmers for Trump” signs but you do see plenty of Trump signs. During Trumps first term, he completely devastated the GA pecan growers. That market is never coming back, but that’s what they voted for.
Also, when farmers say the last thing they want is a handout, that’s a lie. They gladly take free money from the government and “cost-sharing” programs.
Instead of America investing in it’s people and infrastructure, it’s concerned with bombing women and children as well as bullying other nations. The opportunity cost of fighting useless wars is beyond comprehension…so much wasted potential. Wasted potential enriching the military industrial complex, constant bank bailouts, etc. I traveled to Hong Kong a few years before the pandemic, coming back to the states felt like going back in time. Hong Kong in a very old city, yet there’s no city in the States that come close to how modern it is. The US is a failed state and it’s currently being stripped for parts by the oligarchs.
“he (Trump) completely devastated the GA pecan growers.”
For a minute, I thought you really had a good point or two until I read this statement.
I thought that it was hurricane Helene that wiped out the 100-year-old GA pecan trees?
What was Trump supposed to do? Give them $100B to regrow trees that will take a long time to start producing pecans?
And then you go off on the usual wars tangent. Trump started the process of getting us out of Afghanistan. He would have kept the Ukraine war from starting, per Putin, had he been re-elected. He didn’t start the Israeli – Hamas war, but he did bomb Iran’s nuclear complex.
That big rant has very little, if anything, to do with Trump. If anything, he’s trying to change that. You’re very confused and seem to think Biden’s still in office. That was the guy who let Russia invade Ukraine, massively botched the Afghanistan withdrawal and didn’t do anything meaningful about Hamas or Iran. Oh, and Hegseth smacked down officially today all of the DEI garbage in the military.
Lol! You really are in love with Trump. I bet you write him poems and love letters. How about posting a few of them here? It will be fun to read them.
Nope. All I was doing was calling Johnnie out for his BS.
In fact, I criticize Trump quite often. I don’t care for his big fat mouth. I’m not a fan of his tax cuts. I don’t like his strategy for implementing tariffs, although I do support them. I think his meme crypto coins are BS. And like you, I’m not a fan of his constant smearing of renewables.
There are other things that I don’t like about him, but I think that establishes that I’m not in a bromance with him.
Be that as it may, you are the guy who likes to call people “dumbf*cks”, because you don’t agree with them. Kind of reminds me a Trump, when he’s a crybaby at times.
That’s funny. You’re the biggest Trump ass kisser I have ever seen. Except for Howard Lutnick. I bet you would have to wait for him to finish sucking Trump’s dick, before you could have your turn.
Johnnie says he’s a Georgia farmer and you’re calling him out for his BS? He was correct.
They were in big trouble long before Hurricane Helene.
BenW,
When I say Trump devastated the pecan growers, I’m referring to the tariffs that he imposed on China during his first administration. Chinese buyers never came back and the prices have been depressed ever since. The Chinese market was a gold mine for pecan growers. China found out about pecans one year after a walnut shortage. After that point, they loved pecans. That market is now dead. It is true that Hurricane Helene damaged many trees, but that’s not what hurt growers the most. What hurt them is their number one client disappearing. After Hurricane Helene damaged trees and knocked all the nuts on the ground, you’d think prices would be pretty good. Supply and Demand dynamics. Nope, prices were some of the lowest in decades last year even with the low supply. It doesn’t matter because the demand from China is zero. Hurricane Helene just added insult to injury.
“What was Trump supposed to do? Give them $100B to regrow trees that will take a long time to start producing pecans?” Again, no but there’s government money (cost-sharing), socialism, that gives farmers taxpayer money to help cover the cost of replacing their groves.
I’m a blueberry grower but know cotton, corn, blackberry, pecan, peanut, peach growers, etc. These people voted with their hate and bigotry and this past season several farmers I personally know had fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields because of how they voted. I can assure you that the soybean farmers in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc., they have lost the Chinese market. It’s not coming back. China can work with other BRICS nations and BRICS friendly nations. Trump overplayed his hand. I don’t blame China…why would I want to work with someone who is actively trying to sabotage my growth and advancement of the Chinese people just because the true rulers of the US want to rule the world.
Like I said, I didn’t vote for Trump or Kamala. I’m not a Democrat or Republican…zoom out and see the Matrix. Regarding Trump and war. He’s a war criminal just like the other recent president. I was born in 1978, since I’ve been alive, it’s been the US constantly fighting wars. This has nothing to do with the party affiliation of the president. They are all controlled by the Military Industrial Complex. Also, since I’ve been alive China hasn’t invaded not one country. So how is China a threat? Who’s the aggressor/bully on the planet? The money wasted on wars is a bipartisan policy.
Maybe you might have some difference perspective by doing a little analysis via La Nacion article ” EE.UU. pide consenso político y dejar el swap chino a cambio del paquete de ayuda económica” Sunday edition
“Democracy is the idea the the average American knows what he wants, and deserves to get it good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken like over 100 years ago
It’s 5D inter-dimensional chess by the POTUS Grand Master
lol, don’t give a damn about soybean exports. Sen. Chuck Grassley cries for “family farmers” when, in reality, some 96% of soybean exports are done by the top 5-6 global corps with GMO seeds, driving tractors you can’t fix on your own, spraying Roundup everywhere.
The family farmer is the victim here to these companies, and Trump will cave into “farm aid” because they are large corps.
Frosty, please send blueberries to Shi.
Frosty, please send Engel to one of Xi’s re-education camps in Inner Mongolia, preferably one with a 4am roll call before a freezing shower and then eights hours forced labour making crap for Walmart.
Funny Limey!
Michael E. has to live with himself… That must be pure torture 😉
Imagine him muttering under his breath and occasionally ranting and raving with no-one to listen. Blood pressure over the top and wife cowering in the closet…
Every village has its idiot.
A severe draught devastated Argentina and Brazil agriculture. Chinese pigs are starving. Imposing embargo on US farmers was an ego trip.
In spite of drought, China is buying as many soybeans from these two countries as possible. China purchased 61 million metric tons so far in 2025 and have a large stockpile of 44 million metric tons.
Chinese pigs are doing fine. There is NO starvation. Feed prices are low, and pig farmers are doing well.
What is your reason for making up this sh*t?
When U.S. soybeans get cheap enough, China will sweep in and kindly save the day by buying a bunch of them. Corn too. Lol.
Right. The price of soybeans was dropping like crazy for two years before Trump got into office.
FYI EVERYBODY, nobody said doing tariffs was going to be easy. I guess the soybean farmers didn’t get that memo. Don’t worry though, there bailout is coming, rest assured. They’ve got a big fat lobby in DC with a very big megaphone in Grassley’s ears.
Nope. Trump said it was easy.
Hell no, dude. I distinctly remember him saying that this process was not going to be easy and that it would be a difficult road. Sure a month later, he’s acting like it’s going to be easy, but that’s Trump.
You’re still the guy who thinks everything that comes out of his mouth is to be taken literally. Or you just like to bash him for being two-faced like a lot of politicians. Trump’s just a wee bit more vocal about it.
Really? I suggest you check Trump’s twitter account where he says “Trade wars are good and easy to win”.
One of his more famous quotes. Mish uses it often.
Though I still like “We’ve lowered pharma prices by 1400, 1500 percent”.
And yes, I took both those statements literally. How did you interpret them?
In addition, when Trump held up that big sign showing tariff rates on almost every country in the world, including the 128 countries we run a trade surplus with; I took that literally as well.
What did you think it was?
Here is the link to the current tariffs on all those countries.
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/
Ha Ha. lol. (Trade) wars are easy to win.
Argentina first. Israel first. Ukraine first.
With the senate routine talking about “the war with China”, it is in China’s interest to derisk all points of contact with the bully rogue nation.
It’s not about soy beans.
Someone call the Police, American farmers have been murdered.
The suspected culprit is orange & can’t shut up.
MAGA is the king of FAFO
“MAGA is the king of TACO”
FIFY
“I hope China will quickly quadruple it’s soybean orders.”
they did – 4 X 0 = 0
Maybe Trump can understand that Trump Math, but I doubt it
And where ius the guy who said “I live in farm country and I don’t hear of any problem!” – he lives in the Country Acres new subdivision of condos, and thinks he’s in the country
I really would like to see a network mapping all the business relationships at the top. I suspect they would reveal our leaders have friends who benefit from these outcomes, at the expense of USA farmers.
I have a feeling Hunter was a total piker.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/10/08/jd-vance-acretrader/
Trump bailed out the farmers the last time too. Every other industry should be screaming bloody murder if he does it again
Who feeds the country next year? SpaceX?
OpenAI
You get what you vote for.
Stupid people demand stupid government.
In their defense, Trump voters thought they were voting for something else. Not this.
I tried to tell them…but it turns out they’re as savvy as Kamala voters.
Slightly less savvy, because despite how bad Kamala would have been, it would not have this bad. Economically nor constitutionally.
You’re clueless. Kamala would have been vastly better.
Yeah, racism. They got that too.
This is not the result of actions by Argentina, this is directly on Donald Trump for being such an absolutely arrogant asshole.
What the fuck did he expect after China refused our grains during his first terms nightmare of stupid tariffs? That debacle cost US taxpayers $80 billion in subsidies to be paid to farmers.
Rest assured this time it will cost over $200 billion!
Who does Trump work for?
=Who does Trump work for?
it is hard to say
i will say one thing:
he is definitely SUPPORTIVE OF SMALL ARROGANT NATION IN Middle east that PRETEND have some historical links to people lived there 2000+ years ago, that brain stormed couple books w. major actors named Jesus, Adam, Eve, etc
alx
Does he have friends or bosses with business interests in Argentina?
He’s in love with their baby dictator… even sends him our cash.
Chain saw wielding dribbler
He has a guy who compliments his leadership. That’s it.
Number one US export merde………
Well, there’s always drugs. Does the coca plant that produces cocaine grow well in midwestern climes? Could someone draw a map of Colombia and superimpose it over Iowa and Nebraska?
The heroin plant that does so well in Afghanistan might be another possibility. Ever since fentanyl took over the market, the natural heroin alternative has been hurting for a comeback.
You could grow soybeans… or you could grow something the global market really wants. A natural high. Something that makes you want to stick a needle in a vein and say ahhhh….
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dark . sport . blog Is my website, come by for a visit!
Go away you poaching scumbag!
Mish…
And the people that were buying soybeans from Argentina are now buying ours. If the Chinese want to pay higher shipping costs to make a political point let them.
Source please
Prices as of Sept 2025:
US price per metric ton $367
Argentina price per metric ton $400
Why would any country buy Argentina Soybeans when US ones are cheaper? I know why China is doing it, but why would any other country do so?
Same reason China is.
So in effect Trump is punishing not just US consumers but the whole worlds consumers.
It’s going to be interesting to see which countries have food riots first…
The US price has collapsed precisely because there are so few buyers
=-ns from Argentina are now buying ours
or Argentina just increased production and serve 2 clients
never run lemon stand?
Lots of countries were getting our free soybeans. Because they can’t afford them. There was just one country that cannot feed itself that could afford to pay market prices for vast amounts of US AG surpluses: CHINA. Trump idiotically ran them off. They created a new source: South America. In the early 1950s my war hero Dad used to drive a war hero minister around the county to discuss his plan to deal with AG surpluses, which have plagued American farmers since Colonial America. His plan was for the U.S. government to buy their surpluses at market prices and to use them to feed the hungry of the world. The minister’s name was George McGovern, and JFK selected him to be the first director of Food for Peace. Of which the biggest benefactors have been, for more than 60 years, American farmers, and then Elon Musk and the Republican party and Big Balls have foolishly destroyed all of it.
I have no sympathy, nor compassion for farmers who grow food for our enemies.
China has been at war with the US for over 30 years and they are winning on all fronts.
To farmers who are growing soybeans for China, why not grow something that America really needs and is more profitable.
Hurry, there is still some more propaganda nonsense left for you to gulp down.
USA elites surrounds China with military bases, commit genocide, and starve weak nations to steal their resources instead of pay a fair price.
And they hate and fear their own people, too.
“War is what happens when your government tells you who your enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.”
Yes, let’s grow almonds in North Dakota, and avocados in South Dakota, and kiwis in balmy Iowa, and let’s make Nebraska the lime capitol of the world. The Nebraska Limehuskers.
😆😆😆
Very, very good point, Rex! I’m sure they’ll figure this out soon enough, if they’re really losing $100-200 per acre on soybeans. If not, they might want to hire an AI agent to run their business.
Looks like China has shown farm voters what FAFO is all about. American farmers you’ve earned your bankruptcy with your vote, file with pride.
Gotta admit you have a good point here. During Trumps first term Trump pulled his stupid tariffs and China boycotted our corn and soy. It cost American taxpayers $80 billion in subsidies to farmers. While it was a nice bribe and the farm community voted for the this dysfunction, I agree that they should not be paid subsidies this time.
I own a farm and did not plant any soy or corn because I saw this coming.
At coffee this morning it was hysterical to listen to my farming friends whine about prices. I have to hold my young or they would literally kill me, the farmers are angry!
But they are angry at the wrong people since they all watch Fox News and are Foxwashed…
> I own a farm and did not plant any soy or corn because I saw this coming.
Nicely played!!
I wish I could monetize my geopolitical expertise. All it’s done for me is clear my social calendar.
I can’t say that I blame China one bit, but that’s without knowing some facts.
– China shuns US soybeans in trade war retaliation. > Fair enough, as we do the same…
– Argentina’s Soybean Exports: a crisis now entangled with a controversial economic bailout of Argentina.
> What’s so controversial about it? Is the fact that Argentina is Removing Our Tariff on There Grain? Is it because Argentina sold their Countries Product, like every other Country does, but to China? Thats their business, like it is ours…
>> because they sold at a time when we would normally be selling to China. WAAAA.. PLEASE! A Country sells when they have product ready to move, and should careless about what another Country is doing, or have to eat it themselves…
– Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”
> Are you kidding me? Soy Cost? So America can’t eat it because it’s too expensive now? Nobody else sells it? We can’t live without it? If that’s leverage America has Much More Serious Issues…
– No Buyers in Beijing?
> EVER? Well let’s stop producing so much, and use the area for a more needed In America product, so we don’t have to worry about selling it anymore, by using it Ourselves.
-Jennifer Fahy, co-executive director at Farm Aid, a nonprofit organization advocating for farmers, told Newsweek, adding: potentially long-term or permanently lost markets due to ricocheting tariffs.”
> Well of course she did! She works for Farms, gets paid by Farm Aid, and works for a non-profit (meaning Tax Payer Money is probably involved too).
– “The Chinese want Trump to feel the pain by having U.S. farmers say ‘This guy is really costing us big time,’” said Harry Broadman, a former assistant U.S. trade representative in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. “They want to get out of the [soy trade] relationship with the U.S. because it’s punishing them with tariffs, but they’re also doing so because they know that these are in areas where votes matter.”
> Hmm… I read this as if the “Prior Administration” with their Coziness to China, may be involved in some way. Read what this affects again! Bush, Clinton Administration’s, Area were Votes Matter, Upsetting U.S. Farmers Specifically, etc. This All sounds Way More Controversial to me!!!
– We should use leverage at every turn to help hurting farm economy. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in an X post Thursday.
> So Chuck Wants To Desperately Do What China Just Did. Why on earth would He be upset then? Why are people upset with another Country selling or buying product? We do it all the time. Is it because they outsmarted us? Is it because We are Working Against Ourselves? Mind your own business Chuck!
– The longer-term outlook for a return to large-volume soybean sales to China looks equally grim.
> That’s one Giant & Controversial statement right there, speaking of controversial…
Meh, the socialist Republicans will bail-out the socialist farmers, to the cheers of socialist Republican voters.
Dangerous game weaponizing food supplies. Good luck with that Chairman Mao. Maybe we should just ship all of US tech and intellectual property directly to the CCP, that which they have not already stolen. Then they would eat our soybeans! This is wartime footing, not about the mythical free market.
nobody should be eating that
Put some soy sauce on that tech, and eat it.
Kinda crunchy and hard to swalow tho.
Wartime footing. Amen, Patrick. Hegseth laid down the gauntlet to the generals. Let’s rolll.
Really?
1. You want the government to shut down.
2. You want to go to war with China.
YES! I WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO SHUTDOWN!!!
America needs a good government shutdown about every 5 years or so. It reminds us of how broken our government is, and it’s only going to get worse. And I’ll be happy if Trump fires a bunch of government workers that we don’t need. All of this is the Dem’s fault. They’re demanding that Trump roll back all sorts of BBB provisions as it relates to Medicaid, etc. Like a bunch of freaking idiots, they’re still wanting to give legal & illegal immigrants free healthcare. MEDICAID IS NOT FOR IMMIGRANTS!!! It’s been expanded WAY beyond what it’s supposed to be.
Like the GOP has said for days now, the Dems gleefully passed 13 CR’s while Biden was in office. Now, they want to shut down the government, because they demand the ability to spend $1.7T that America doesn’t have. Well, guess what, Schumer? You’re not in power.
Trump’s AI generated satire of Schumer & Jeffries was brilliant! It reminds ANY reasonable person how screwed up the Dems are.
NO, I DON’T WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH CHINA.
That would be WW3. China would hit the US with all sorts of coordinated attacks that would take out our electrical grid & plunge the US in the dark ages. They’d never have to fire a single bullet. But our military needs to be prepared to defend us & to ensure China wouldn’t go unscathed. We are now seeing why Trump chose Hegseth for Secretary of War. China doesn’t do DEI. They are building a military that has a single focus:
Defeat the USA on any battleground on earth. It’s about time the US military takes a similar, ruthless path.
PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH NOT A BUNCH OF DEI BS!
Is that clear enough?
What’s clear is that you are a dumb f*ck who is in love with Trump. Nice rant.
Says the wannabe comedian who thinks using bad language is a sign of intelligence.
Yes, I enjoyed smacking down your two imbecilic statements of non-facts.