I never took soybeans for the jealous type. The market has been riding high on the hopes that China would keep buying beans on top of what has already been committed to. This weekend we got the slightest bit of reference that China could buy something other than US soybeans. The beans did not like that…not one little bit. One of the things I told the crowd at the Commodity Classic was how soybeans were getting all the attention with the China trade negotiations. Not to complain, but it seemed a little lopsided. Note to US trade negotiations team: we do produce other things besides soybeans. If Trump has the power to get China to buy our beans, surely, he could get them to buy more of our corn, cotton or a myriad of other crops such as spearmint! (Spearmint is grown Pacific Northwest and the USA exported 1 million pounds last year to places like China, which I totally knew off the top of my head and did not have to google.) Cotton loved the news. I don’t believe any official trade rep has uttered the word cotton yet. But analysts know that China used to be in…
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