 There's a lot of talk going on this week amongst farmers in our community about what's going on with soybean prices. USDA analysts have been looking at soybean planted acreage and other data, trying to get a forecast of the size of this upcoming soybean crop. And here is what they've come up with. Soybean production currently forecast at 4.4 billion bushels. That would be up 270 million bushels year over year.