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JFlora's avatar

My sister called my mom Monday - Trump is ruing our country he’s going to destroy the economy. The soybean farmers are going to lose everything. Calm down, it’s soybeans. Farmers grow soybeans to put nitrogen back into the soil which enriches the soil lessens the need for synthetic fertilizers. Soybeans aren’t only a commodity, soybeans are a farming necessity in crop rotation. I wasn’t worried.

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Arturo A.'s avatar

The Chinese are welcome to the all the soybeans they want to buy. They are a heavily GMO/bioengineered crop these days. Also less eagerness to make lots of soybean oil. That industrial lubricant is in more "food" products than you think.

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