U.S. Soybean Farmers Scramble for Other Importers

Minn. soybean farmers host grain buyers from Southeast Asia

MINNESOTA – American producers are struggling this year as China refuses to buy soybeans from the United States in retaliation for tariffs President Donald Trump has put on the country. Farmers say they aren’t waiting around for a bailout from the federal government. Buyers from Vietnam and Thailand were invited to Minnesota as part of a broader and long-running effort to build more export markets for U.S. soybeans. As potential buyers studied a…

U.S. soybean farmers scramble for other importers

"A trade mission to Nigeria. A memorandum of understanding with Vietnam. A surge of purchases from Bangladesh. These countries are not typically major customers for soybeans from the U.S. farm belt. But desperate farmers, their trade organizations and President Donald…

Minnesota soybean farmer courts new markets to cover the loss of Chinese business

RIDGEWAY, Minn. — Glen Groth just started to harvest soybeans, which is Minnesota's largest ag export, totaling over $3 billion in sales last year, according to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture's predictions for high soybean yields for the state may be coming true, Groth said. "So far, yields look pretty good, but we're not real far into it to get a good sense of what the rest of it's gonna look lik…

MN soybean farmers court Southeast Asia buyers

Soybean groups in Minnesota have been working for decades to expand market access, and the need for new buyers beyond China is greater than ever with the persistence of President Donald Trump's trade war.