By Ryan Hanrahan
Succesful Farming
With just one month remaining in 2025, commodity traders, ag economists and the market appear split on whether China will meet its pledge to buy at least 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans by the end of the year. Bloomberg’s Hallie Gu reported that “China is expected to step up U.S. soybean purchases to meet a pledge to buy at least 12 million tons by the end of the year, according to multiple traders, underscoring a wider market hope that — at least in agriculture — a fragile trade truce can hold.”