(SPRINGFIELD) It was this past Monday that USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said, without providing further details, that the Trump administration expects to announce an aid package for U.S. farmers within two weeks. This comes as the American Farm Bureau Federation announced that such a move is “urgently needed” as nationwide farmers face the compounding pressures of higher input costs and lower crop prices. Meanwhile, Secretary Rollins also announced that back in October, China agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of American soybeans now through the end of January, plus China purchased nearly 1.6 million metric tons of soybeans over three days last week, which was the largest single-week tally in the past two years, since August of 2023.
