ADM Offers Unusual Pricing Deal to Secure Soybean Supplies Amid Farmer Resistance
Global grain merchant ADM is implementing an unusual free deferred pricing program to encourage soybean deliveries from US farmers. The move comes as farmers resist selling at current low prices, creating supply challenges for major processors during peak harvest season.
Processor Implements Unusual Harvest Season Strategy
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, one of the world’s largest grain merchants, is reportedly offering unusual incentives to U.S. farmers to deliver soybeans to its major processing facility in Decatur, Illinois, according to industry sources. The program, described as free deferred pricing, allows farmers to deliver crops immediately while setting the final sale price as late as September 2026 without paying storage fees, sources indicate.