Low Protein Content Hurting U.S. Soy Exports U.S. soybean exports and confirmed unshipped sales are down by 29.7 percent this year compared to a year ago. One reason for the decline was the much larger supply of soybeans in Brazil at the beginning of the U.S. marketing year. Those stocks were exported by Brazil in the fall and displaced demand for U.S. soybeans.Another reason U.S. soybean exports and unshipped sales are down is the low protein content of the 2011 crop. Recently a group of Illinois farmers in Japan were told by a major soybean crusher that it was shifting to importing more Brazilian soybeans because of the low protein content of the U.S. crop. Because Japan takes almost all of its soybeans from the U.S. via Gulf ports, th...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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