Source: Kari Travis, LAURINBURG EXCHANGE, 8/15/19

In the midst of a whirlwind trade war, U.S. and Chinese officials are talking once again. But that doesn’t mean the Trump administration is closer to striking a deal to immediately help North Carolina’s struggling farmers, experts say, and a new poll shows rural support for Trump is slipping. Days after China announced it would slash agricultural imports from the U.S. — a shriveling threat for state crop growers caught in the middle of the field — the Trump administration and the Chinese government reopened negotiations with a phone call Aug. 13.

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