Our President is in Brussels thinking about Our Nations Farmers!

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and will win

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VOR

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The real problem with Soy right now is there's not enough domestic soy consumption. Stop consuming foreign soy products people!

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Soy beans fell 50% from 2012 to my election.

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Plan or no plan, it’s hard to see what steps short of crop buybacks the Trump administration could take to reduce the impact of lost crop imports to the enormous Chinese market. U.S. farmers rely heavily on exports. There’s simply not enough people and livestock in America to eat up all the agriculture America produces—another reason China sees farmers as an economic pressure point.

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“In this case, the Chinese are winning in this—what I call a food dispute, because China is the world’s largest soybean importer, accounting for about 103 million metric tons of 160 million metric tons total,” farm economist Dan Basse told THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “The Chinese, although they can’t go without—they’ll still probably take between 5 and 10 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans—can dramatically cut back, and that dramatic cut back means that the United States will find itself with an oversupply.”

In the long term, it’s this prospect of lost market share in China that’s most worrisome to farmers. Maybe they limp through another year of lousy markets, especially if the government steps in with additional subsidies. But if China makes a permanent decision to do their shopping elsewhere—or dramatically expands their domestic production of grains like soybeans—it could spell decades of disaster for U.S. growers. And so far, there’s no end in sight.

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