Chicago Grains Edge Down as U.S.-China Worries Persist. Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025

Chicago wheat, corn and soybean futures edged down on Wednesday, pressured by ample global supply and concerns about escalation in a U.S.-China trade battle that has hurt U.S. soy exports. Prices earlier bounced from lows on Tuesday — when wheat hit its weakest level in five years, corn set a near seven-week low and soybeans a two-week low — before dropping. Comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday called a Chinese boycott of U.S. soybeans “an economically hostile act” that could lead him to terminate some trade ties with China, kept the focus on their protracted trade battle. Trump singled out cooking oil imports from China, though traders and analysts said they would have little impact as such shipments from China had plummeted over the past year. “Each day brings new threats of retaliation from both sides, undermining confidence in global growth and, more directly, in some purchases of U.S. grains,” Argus analysts said. China has yet to purchase any soybeans from ...