Trumped Farmers Lose Millions on Soybeans They Can’t Sell to China

'Not a good year': Trump-voting farmers reaching 'limits of the their patience' with his policies

Farmers are beginning to reap the results of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, causing them to question their support of him as a "looming farm crisis" threatens their livelihoods. “Farmers across the country are looking at record yields during their fall harvest. They may have nowhere to sell them,” Politico reports. "Crop farmers are especially suffering, having “lost a significant export market, driving down the price of top U.S. crops lik…

'Don't know where it's going': Farmers stressed as Trump tariffs threaten record harvest

Farmers are reporting record yields for crops this fall but it's unclear who will buy them. The ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. is testing farmers' faith in the Trump administration, Politico reports. “When our members are in the fields harvesting, they will be staring at a visual repre...

Trumped Farmers Lose Millions on Soybeans They Can’t Sell to China

The dictator’s economically irrational tariffs on South Dakota’s top trading partners have the rural ag-industrialists who elected him anxious: About 60% of soybeans grown in South Dakota are exported, with China formerly buying about 30%, [SD Soybean Assoc. exec Jerry] Schmitz said. China imports soybeans largely for livestock feed to meet the growing demand for meat among its 1.4 billion people. Now the country is boycotting purchases of U.S. …

Farmer says 'we're in a very dire situation' ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer

Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.

Trump-China trade dispute heightens harvest anxiety for SD soybean farmers

RAPID CITY — Jerry Schmitz is rarely at a loss for words about soybeans.