New data shows Brazil’s growing dominance in China’s soybean market and why it’s a rising concern for U.S. growers. A look at long-term trade trends, producer sentiment, and what’s at stake for Midwest agriculture.
Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports —from Santos to Chancay — reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.
Despite new tariffs and ongoing trade negotiations, US beef imports from Brazil hit a record 197 million pounds in January 2025, up from 7 million in January 2020. JBS, the world’s largest meat company, helped power the surge as the US herd shrank.
Missouri agriculture officials are struggling to address a backlog of complaints from farmers who allege that dicamba-based herbicide drift from another farm has damaged their crops. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has about 600 pending pesticide investigations. Some of them date back to 2016
“An eerie feeling came over me. Suddenly a piercing scream of a dying animal was heard. What it was we did not learn,” Elizabeth Steen, a Knoxville native, told a
Cargill’s Black River Asset Management LLC is discussing the possibility of expanding the Minnesota-based agribusiness company’s sugar portfolio by buying two Brazilian sugar and ethanol mills.
