In Minnesota, soybean exports have sharply declined. Pork and other goods may soon halt.
China’s announcement that it will stop buying U.S. farm products is yet another setback for farmers already weary of a trade war that’s dragged on for more than a year.
“We need to find an end to this very soon, because it’s not sustainable for us much longer,” Darin Johnson, a corn and soybean farmer near Wells, Minn., said after the news Tuesday.
“China is a large customer of ours and has been in the past and we’ve worked very hard to keep their business. At this stage, we’ve lost a big portion of it and we honestly can’t afford to lose any more,” Johnson said.
View the complete August 6 article by Adam Belz on The Star Tribune website here.