agriculture

A 2025 USDA report recorded two purchases of U.S. soybeans by Chinese buyers totaling 332,000 metric tons.

In 2025, China's tariff on U.S. soybeans was approximately 24% after a 10-percentage-point reduction.

China is the world's largest buyer of soybeans.

In recent years, China purchased about one quarter of U.S. soybean production.

Ed Gallrein is a fifth-generation Kentucky farmer whose family has farmed in Kentucky for over a century and operates Gallrein Grain Farms, which is described as one of the state's largest grain operations; his family also built a large dairy farm described as Kentucky's largest.

China typically purchases roughly one-quarter of the annual U.S. soybean crop.

In 2024, Brazil supplied over 70% of China's soybean imports while the United States' share was about 21%, according to World Bank data.

In 2024, China purchased more than $12.5 billion of U.S. soybean exports out of nearly $24.5 billion in total U.S. soybean export value.

The area dedicated to coca cultivation in Colombia was a record 253,000 hectares (625,000 acres) in 2023, almost triple the amount reported a decade earlier, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

A 2020 U.S.-China trade agreement included commitments by China to purchase U.S. agricultural products.

Israeli–Kazakh bilateral cooperation has included defense, cybersecurity, energy, and food-technology areas, with agreements dating back to the mid-1990s.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency (USDA RMA) administers federal crop insurance programs.

U.S. federal crop insurance programs provide indemnity payments (federal crop insurance benefits) and include federal premium subsidies to help pay insurance premiums.