{"id":455369,"date":"2026-05-18T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:29:08","slug":"china-to-buy-17-billion-in-us-farm-goods-lifting-corn-wheat-soybean-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455369\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Buy $17 Billion in US Farm Goods, Lifting Corn, Wheat, Soybean Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">An agreement on US agricultural sales to China outlined by the White House is raising optimism for a demand pickup beyond soybeans, helping to drive prices higher across the board for crop futures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China has agreed to buy at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-17\/us-says-china-to-buy-17-billion-of-agricultural-goods-annually\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">$17 billion annually<\/a> in American agricultural produce through 2028, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2026\/05\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-deals-with-china-delivering-for-american-workers-farmers-and-industry\/\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">fact sheet<\/a> posted Sunday by the White House following US President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Beijing. That\u2019s in addition to a soybean purchase pledge from late 2025, when Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping initially met in a bid to ease the rift between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An agreement on US agricultural sales to China outlined by the White House is raising optimism for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[460,2102,72,114,11507,113,27127,65547,61,60,28221,123,6765,3591,12139],"class_list":["post-455369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economy","tag-farming","tag-generic-1st-ct-future","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kansas","tag-markets","tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture","tag-white-house","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}