{"id":231835,"date":"2025-10-06T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=231835"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:35:06","slug":"make-subsidies-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/podcasts\/ibkr-podcasts\/make-subsidies-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Subsidies Great Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. farmers are facing a third straight year of losses \u2014 and with China pulling back on grain imports, President Trump\u2019s proposed $10 billion in farm aid could be the next big political play. 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Although IBKR has edited for clarity no material changes have been made<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson\"><strong>Andrew Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to this podcast. My guest today is Dan Basse of Ag Resource in Chicago. Welcome back to the program, Dan. How are you?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dan-basse\"><strong>Dan Basse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m very well \u2014 very warm weather here in Chicago. Harvest has been moving fast, Andrew. All good, at least for now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-0\"><strong>Andrew Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I get the impression that certainly in New England here, the fall is a few weeks behind. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. 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Back in February, when U.S. President Trump put tariffs on fentanyl \u2014 if you remember, the fentanyl tariffs of 20% \u2014 the Chinese retaliated with 34% of their own tariffs on soybeans and U.S. grains.\u00a0And so today, what has happened is that the Chinese have been able to buy most of their needs through Brazil and Argentina. Last week, of course, Argentina did a dollar swap, if you will, relative to the peso, and did $7 billion of grain sales with their farmers, reducing the export tax to zero. And so the Chinese now have been able to buy what they need through the end of November, first part of December.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, U.S. corn and soybean prices are a long way away from working into China. They&#8217;re not nearly close. But more importantly, I&#8217;m hearing from my Chinese clients that they&#8217;ve been told not to buy U.S. grains. China sees this as a negotiating lever for them. And I think this even goes back longer than that.\u00a0The U.S. farmers are struggling because of fertilizer prices \u2014 you&#8217;re gonna hear a lot of talk about fertilizer prices being high. A year and a half ago, back in early \u201924, China started to diminish their exports of phosphate \u2014 a key ingredient in crop production. By doing so, world phosphate prices have rallied about 40%. China accounts for 40% of the world phosphate market.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this probably is a longer-term structural plan from China to get at the roots of the Trump administration&#8217;s core supporters \u2014 which are U.S. farmers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-3\"><strong>Andrew Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s also my understanding, Dan, that the supply chain between Brazil and China is really being beefed up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dan-basse-3\"><strong>Dan Basse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it has been. I would mention that because of what\u2019s called the investment in the Northern Arc \u2014 this is along the Amazon River \u2014 Brazil is now a larger and more efficient exporter than the United States. 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And that\u2019s part of the financial pinch, if you will, on the U.S. farmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-4\"><strong>Andrew Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think that China would be buying this amount from Brazil were it not for the political situation \u2014 for the trade negotiations?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dan-basse-4\"><strong>Dan Basse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I do believe that the structure of Brazilian exports was going to be lengthening. In other words, Brazil used to export beans from, let&#8217;s call it, the middle of February into the middle of September or October. Because of the size of the Brazilian crop now being 171\u2013172 this year, 180 maybe next year, Brazil can export soybeans into November and December.\u00a0So they&#8217;re dramatically cutting into the U.S. position. This is causing more competition in the world market between Brazil and the U.S. farmer. And because of that\u2019s price, it\u2019s lowering the price structure and causing some of the financial pain also for the U.S. farmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-5\"><strong>Andrew Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So what needs to happen to alter the prevailing bearish price trend?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dan-basse-5\"><strong>Dan Basse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to find new demand drivers. We need to find something like \u2014 if you remember back to the mid-2000s \u2014 we found the biofuels, and biofuels consumed a lot of grain. We then had the arrival of China as being a significant exporter on the world market, and that lifted grain values and gave farmers unprecedented profitability.\u00a0Both are termed as demand drivers. Maybe India someday will come forward as being a population \u2014 which is exceeding 1.4 billion people \u2014 that will come forward and be bigger grain importers at some point. But we think it&#8217;s probably a decade away.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Chinese, for right now, it looks like they\u2019re mature. They\u2019re going to be importing about the same amount of corn and soybeans and wheat for many years to come. So it\u2019s no longer a growth market for world agriculture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So somehow I need either for biofuels \u2014 and maybe that\u2019s environmentally friendly marine fuel or sustainable aviation fuel \u2014 something\u2019s got to come to the fore that would be a demand driver that would change the bearishness that currently exists today.\u00a0We don\u2019t see it, but we&#8217;re always hopeful that with low prices and maybe low costs of things like ethanol and renewable diesel, these things will grow and have new sprouts for bigger demand going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-6\"><strong>Andrew Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan, in the news I&#8217;m reading that President Trump is toying with the idea of $10 billion in subsidies or aid to farmers on account of the protracted negotiations with China and the loss of demand and low prices. How will U.S. farmers react to that should it happen?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dan-basse-6\"><strong>Dan Basse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I think every farmer would tell you they&#8217;d rather have markets than aid. I think that&#8217;s the first place we&#8217;ll start in this discussion. But if you think longer term, I do believe that the aid is needed and will be accepted by the U.S. farmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s an old \u2014 sorry \u2014 joke going around right now that the best way to double farm income is to have two mailboxes, because the checks will be coming.\u00a0But that being said, Andrew, as you think about why we&#8217;re here, this all goes back to what I call a math equation: fentanyl. The tariffs that were put on in February are 20% \u2014 that will collect about $90 billion for the U.S. Treasury. So Trump will be handing out maybe $10 billion or a little more of that to the U.S. farmer. 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