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.