Soybean Market Changing for North Dakota Farmers but China and Tariffs Still Loom Large

By Anabella Gonzalez and Gonzalo Alvarado, CNN en Español José Del Bosque has been working in the harvest since he was 10 years old. It all started in the summers when, as a child, his father taught him every detail of the farming trade. Now, at 76, he is planning for retirement. But the uncertainty surrounding tariffs and the trade war between the United States and China is leading him to rethink his personal goals: he says he will likely have …

Soybean market changing for North Dakota farmers, but China and tariffs still loom large

Opening of soybean crush plants gives growers more options

Soybean market changing for North Dakota farmers but China and tariffs still loom large

CASSELTON, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Soybean grower Jim Thompson said there is no way to replace a customer the size of China, but North Dakota farmers have more options than they did in the 2018 Trump administration trade war. The first Trump administration paid out $23 billion in relief to farmers who suffered a loss of trade because of high tariffs. Most of the North Dakota soybean crop has traditionally been shipped to China, the focal p…

Faces of MSGA: Dave Garry

This article was first published in the May-June 2025 issue of Soybean Business. Click here to read the digital version. Dave Garry has been farming ever since he can remember. He farmed with his father, now in his 68th season, but has been farming independently for the past 10 years in both Pennington and Polk counties.    “Up until some of the newer genetics of the soybeans nowadays, we struggled to get good yields,” he said. “We were trying s…