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   Until 2024, China was the largest buyer of American soybeans. In 2025, Trump   
   came to power and began wrangling import tariffs with the entire world. This   
   meant that China also took quite a beating.   
      
   But China wasn't going to let this get to them. They went to Argentina and   
   Brazil and bought up the soybean harvest there. The 2025 harvest in South   
   America was so large that China no longer needed any soy from the US. So, it   
   literally didn't buy any soybeans from the US.   
      
   Soybean farmers there lost their best customer, AND their second-best   
   customer, USAid.   
      
   Trump shut that down as well. This meant that US farmers lost their two   
   largest buyers, and despite Trump indicating a month ago that things were back   
   to normal between China and the US, the Chinese have still bought virtually no   
   soybeans from the US. There were two more or less symbolic purchases, partly   
   to confirm the agreement with the US, and then it was quiet again.   
      
   China has enough soybeans from South America. It's not going back to the US.   
   Why should it?   
      
   The only soybeans China buys in the US are those it harvests from its own   
   farmland in the US. China owns 277,000 acres of farmland in the US.   
      
   American soybean farmers will also face hard times in 2026, and a significant   
   portion will have to sell their farms afterward. Trump's cronies are eager to   
   take over the farmland. They'll put it in their hedge funds and then speculate   
   wildly.   
      
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