China imports no US soybeans for second month, Brazil arrivals up 29%

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-imports-no-us-soybeans-second-month-brazil-arrivals-up-29-2025-11-20/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53408652

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jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 286d (2 replies)

US Farmers having the day they voted for:

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 7 pts · 286d (1 reply)

They were voting for subsidies

masterspace@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 286d
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tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 33 pts · 286d (53 replies)

US could always turn those soybeans into cheap food for the US.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 23 pts · 286d (49 replies)

Even give it away to starving families who lost their SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

But capitalists have to lie, çeat, & steal.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 286d (40 replies)

Cheat?

random_character_a@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 286d (36 replies)

Tax evasion, market manipulation, monopolies... etc.

tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 286d (35 replies)

Sha-eat?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -7 pts · 286d (34 replies)

You got it right the first time.
Cha che chi cho chu = Ça çe çi ço çu.
English is such a shit language it changes “ea” to /ι/ in “cheat” /çιt/

tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 286d (33 replies)

You seem reasonably proficient at it. I think you introduce misspellings like this on purpose—given your history. It’s a bit psychotic if you ask me—given your history…….

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -8 pts · 286d

Making fun a language isn't psychotic behavior, unless you have something you want to confess.

If anything, English is an imperial language forced down our throats after Amekos beat us in WWII. But given that you actually know history, you should know why Unicode relented on “ç” for /ch/.

b_tr3e@feddit.org · -9 pts · 286d

What's the problem with "çeat"? Pretty obvious that it's pronounced "cheat". If you'd speak three languages or more, you'd be aware of that.Don't blame others for your eductional deficites.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -2 pts · 286d (2 replies)
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 286d (1 reply)

Sha-eat?

Clearly English is your third language.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -3 pts · 286d

How do you pronouns “C”?
/ka/?

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 286d (7 replies)

Giving things away for free en masse costs money. And the farmers are already going bankrupt from this. Big Ag will buy up that land cheap, and then the subsidies will be announced. Just like last time.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -4 pts · 286d (6 replies)

Wow, capitalist propaganda in my response.
Did you even bother to read who actually paid for the beans on these farms through subsidies?

Let's be blatant, the farmers are worried about profit, not feeding the hungry.

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 286d (5 replies)

I don't think you read what I wrote properly.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -2 pts · 286d (4 replies)
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 285d (3 replies)

No. Let the adults talk.

Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 286d (1 reply)

According to americans beans are for mexicans and commies and soy feminizes you, thus, no such luck.

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 286d

So what your telling me it's time for the Mexican fembois to rise up and take over America?

Iv heard of worse fates.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 285d

Turning us all into soyboys?

Lol the irony would be pretty delicious.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 286d

Good. Fuck em. I'll sit back and enjoy while the rest of the world proceeds to set up a trade network that bypasses the U.S. entirely, fostering far more cooperation and goodwill than America's Hegemonic diplomacy ever has. America can get fucked for all I care.

Tronn4@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 286d

So much winning

survirtual@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 286d (3 replies)

Soy farming is destructive to natural ecosystems. A shame for the farmers in the US, but the nature will be glad and that is more valuable. It does depend on the replacement crop.

I am worried about Brazilian's nature with the increasing soy farming. Soy needs terrain that competes with beautiful native plants, and with increasing production, more land will be lost, and more water consumed.

The good news is that soy farming makes more sense in Brazil. Higher rainfall means less diverted water. It is actually more ecologically cost effective. Hopefully there will not be much more forest displacement.

kiagam@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 286d (1 reply)

Soyf farming and cattle ranching have been destroying the amazon for decades. It is severely diminished from that. But it is such a huge forest that it seems infinite.

The bigger problem is that the soil on the amazon is actually pretty bad. There is a thin fertile layer that gets renewed by the forest. Once you cut it down to plant something else it quickly becomes bad, so you have to cut down more forest to keep up production

survirtual@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d

It's true and very sad.

They claim the soy farming won't be allowed to deforest further, but the more land used for soy, the less for cattle. That can push cattle ranchers deeper into forested land and the effect is the same.

I hope this can be solved soon. The Amazon is a precious, ancient treasure of Earth.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 286d

Soy farming restores nitrogen on soil. The alternative of using chemical processes to restore that nitrogen is stopping farming corn, and that's not happening.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 6 pts · 286d

Good. Make it forever.

verdi@feddit.org · 5 pts · 285d

For those asleep at the wheel: This is part of the plan, it's helping the last % points of a corporate takeover of the US primary sector that started over a decade ago. It's consolidation into monopolies. It's the US perestroika.

card797@champserver.net · 4 pts · 286d

The deals are so good.

Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 285d

It's a bit confusing:

China Makes Biggest Soybean Buy From U.S. in Two Years

China made its biggest daily purchase of American soybeans in two years, in a move that ends a temporary pause and appears to signal a commitment to a trade truce reached late last month.

It would be interesting to know how this effects the people in China as the country is the world's largest importer not just of soybeans but of food in general. Is Brazil even able to fill the gap?

falseWhite@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d
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masterspace@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 286d
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