Items Tagged with 'soybean'

EPA finalizes long-awaited 2026-27 biofuel-blending mandates. 

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin reiterated the agency's goal of releasing biofuel-blending rules by the end of this month. 

Even as farm groups push for another round of emergency there are growing concerns in and outside the Trump administration that putting still more money into the ag economy may actually prolong growers' financial challenges in the long run. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says input costs appear to track increases in government payments. 

The House Agriculture Committee unveiled a draft farm bill Friday that would revamp a key international food aid program, boost risk management options for specialty crop growers and nullify California's controversial Proposition 12 standards for animal welfare. The bill also would address pesticide labeling and raise USDA loan limits.

Brazilian soybean producers want to keep the recent gains they’ve made in the Chinese market even as U.S.-China relations improve. 

The Trump administration’s big farm aid package is expected to be announced next week, and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden tells Agri-Pulse “a wide variety of commodity crops” will be eligible for the program.

Low prices and strong yields have northern Plains farmers scrambling to find grain storage, particularly as elevators show signs of limited availability for soybeans amid a lack of Chinese purchases.

House Ag Committee Chair Glenn Thompson is stepping back from saying that tariff revenue could be used for emergency farm aid. He also thinks the final price tag for the aid, however it’s funded, could be north of $20 billion.

Biofuel and farm groups are generally hopeful that the Trump administration’s proposal on target for renewable fuels will better support growth across the industry, in addition to propping up domestic feedstocks. 
However, a lack of resolution on how the administration will handle small refinery exemptions and recent proposals on the 45Z tax credit for clean fuel producers could continue uncertainty in the market. 

Feed costs for swine producers are predicted to continue a downward trend in the second half of 2025, according to a recent study from Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.