China Turning to Brazil Soybeans After Meeting US Purchase Pledge
January 27, 2026
China, the world’s largest soybean importer, has ramped up orders for Brazilian cargoes of the oilseed after meeting an initial shipment volume from the US as part of a trade…
USDA’s Vaden Accuses Nutrien, Mosaic of Fertilizer Price Collusion
January 26, 2026
Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden (last week) accused Nutrien and Mosaic of working to ‘collude’ to limit U.S. fertilizer supply and control prices, suggesting that the administration could take future…
Congress Creating Ethanol Task Force After Year-Round E15 Deal Fails
January 23, 2026
Republican U.S. lawmakers plan to create a task force to study potential year-round sales of higher-ethanol E15 gasoline blends in the U.S., after an attempt to pass such legislation in…
Proposed Gov’t Funding Bills Don’t Include Farm Aid, E15
January 22, 2026
A package of funding bills assembled by House and Senate appropriators that needs to pass before the end of January does not contain any more aid for farmers. It’s also…
Tariff Revenue from Ag Input Imports was Nearly $1 Billion in 2025
January 21, 2026
Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration collected an estimated $958 million in revenue from selected agricultural inputs from February to October of 2025, according to North Dakota State University’s monthly…
China Reaches 12 Million Ton US Soybean Purchase Pledge
January 20, 2026
China has bought about 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans, fulfilling a U.S.-stated pledge to purchase that volume by the end of February, three traders told Reuters on Tuesday,…
Supreme Court Will Hear Bayer’s Roundup Liability Case
January 19, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday it will hear a Bayer Roundup case that could bring product-liability lawsuits to a close on the glyphosate-based weed killer.
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