China and the U.S. restarted their Agricultural Cooperation Joint Committee in Washington, co-chaired by agriculture ministers Tang Renjian and Tom Vilsack. The officials pledged to maintain the mechanism and discussed climate-smart agriculture, food security and trade facilitation.
Restored dialogue modestly lowers the risk of future trade disruption in farm goods, a mildly supportive factor for U.S. soybean and feed grain export expectations.
After 554 past neutral policy events, Soybeans moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.6%), and +0.6% over 20.
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