By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media (February 3, 2026) Two thousand twenty-five saw much disruption in the U.S. ag sector: higher input costs, stagnant grain prices, continuing inflation, disappointing returns for some of the world’s largest agribusinesses, not to mention the race to find new global partners to replace lost soybean sales to China due to trade and tariff uncertainty. But, ever proving their resiliency, farmers reported bumper crops  for

Compilation of News from Industry Sources (February 2, 2026) CoBank data reveals farmers were aggressive sellers of soybeans in fall 2025 Farmers were aggressive sellers of soybeans last fall but were more reluctant to market corn and wheat, according to CoBank’s collateral monitoring reports of grain company customers as of Nov. 30, 2025. Company ownership of soybeans in commercial storage jumped to 73.6% as of Nov. 30, up from 66.3% the year prior as farmers sold soybeans a