An unprofitable autumn in world soybean processing

Walter Cronin, White River’s President & Co-Founder, provides market commentary in his latest Market Report.

September 2, 2025

Welcome to September 2025, the kickoff of the 2025/26 marketing year for the new crop of soybeans soon to be harvested across the fruited plain of the U.S. Corn Belt (with an acknowledgement that Delta farmers have already begun the soybean harvest as they do every year). To date, Chinese traders, collectively the U.S.’s number one export customer, have failed to show up to buy any of our country’s soybean production during the traditional U.S. new crop marketing window which is now.

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