Outlook Worsens for Soybeans

This week, the news got worse for the United States’ top agricultural export, with new rounds of tariffs and a bearish forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. China matched the first and second rounds…

Trade War Begins, Traders Buy Beans

After months of posturing, the first cannonballs in the trade war between the U.S. and China were fired on Friday morning, as each nation officially imposed $34 billion in tariffs on one another’s exports. President…

Grain Prices Rally

On Friday morning, the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its estimates of this year’s planted acreage for corn, wheat, and soybeans. While most of the report matched expectations, corn acreage jumped by over a million…

Soy Slides to New Low

Soybean prices collapsed to a nine-year low this week after another round of escalated trade disputes between the United States and China. Beans fell to $8.41 per bushel on Tuesday after President Trump threatened to…