Caleb Ragland

learn to adapt and dodge and find ways to still be competitive in business.

My family has farmed for nine generations, a little over 200 years, and certainly haven't raised soybeans that whole time.

Really, soybean production would just go back to my grandfather.

So there's been soybeans raised on our farm for decades.

Around 50 years now or a little more.

But there's a lot of work that has been done within our industry to turn soybeans into a much more important crop for our country as a whole than it was a couple generations back.

And that's mostly due to the export market that's been developed and also all of the research and innovation that's found all the uses that this Miracle Bean can be used for.

And really, in my personal situation, the answer would be yes to both.

We raise commodity soybeans.

We also have a specialty market that we sell into, as in we grow a lot of seed that is used for other farmers.

seed for the crop they'll plant next year so we're uh there's just some uh extra details that go into it making sure that we keep pure uh the uh the varieties and so forth are kept straight and so forth it's uh just a little bit of extra work and effort um but um

Really, there would be about three areas soybeans are divided into across this country.

It'd be specialty markets, identity preserved, food grade type opportunities where you would work directly to market maybe by containers and so forth.

Then there would be just commodity soybeans are going to be grown, delivered to the elevator, and then the merchandisers are going to take them.

They're going to be

commingled with many other farmer soybeans and delivered to markets both domestically and abroad.

And then there's a small percentage as well of farmers that will grow the seed production that will be next year's soybean crop around the country.

Well, I think it's really that cliff that you alluded to is really when the

Brazilian crop was available to come to market.

And it was a combination of tariffs.