Source: Brad Haire, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 4/4/18


Tough tariff and trade talk between China and the U.S. reached intense levels and sent a shockwave through U.S. ag country earlier this month. If the talk of a trade war was a bit overstated at the time, the battle lines were certainly being drawn, and U.S. farmers were unwittingly caught in the crosshairs.On April 4, China said it intended to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports of U.S. soybeans and other U.S. agricultural commodities like wheat, corn…

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