Tidbits, Q&A: Crop Pricing, U.S. Economy & Electricity, FOB 1/19/26
- Wright team
- 10 hours ago
- 5 min read
Tidbits
The EU is very upset that Trump has put a tariff on all their products shipped to the U.S. until the U.S. gains control of Greenland. The EU is our largest importer of soybean meal. Last year, the EU imported 20.6 million mts of U.S. soybean meal.
The U.S. economy has two major problems:
Unprofitable grain production for most of the last three years with 2026 looking just as bad or worse.
Datacenters under construction or planned for construction will not have access to nearly enough electricity to operate them.
Analysts predict that U.S. electricity demand just for AI and cloud computing infrastructure will increase total U.S. electricity demand by 76% by 2030; that is just four years away!
One of the electricity partial solutions suggested by a member of Trump’s energy team is to fire-up all the standby generators for homes and businesses to free-up enough energy for some of the data centers.
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