So all told, what
kind of headwinds
are Wisconsin farmers
facing right now?
Well, just increasing costs
fertilizer, feed
all of those
are increasing at a time
when other than
the price of fat cattle
everything is down.
Corn are down.
Beans have been down.
Milk is not good.
So
lots of headwinds
out there.
On the other hand
farmers have faced
this in the past
and are resilient.
How welcome is the news
that China
will start buying
soybeans again?
Oh, extremely welcome.
I mean, a big deal
not just in Wisconsin
but across the nation
to get China back.
Maybe not this year
but the next
two years of buying
what they have
in the past
is exceptional
good news for soybean
farmers and all farmers
across the nation.
Well, they're going to buy
roughly 12 million metric tons
this year, which isn't going
to make up the whole difference.
But at the end of day
it's going to make
a big difference
and moving forward to ‘26
and ‘27
with that promise
to buy back to the
the same level
that they had been
is certainly going
to help agriculture out
in the long run here.