Source: Matt Debnam, THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, 1/30/20


For farmers in eastern North Carolina, the farming business starts in local soil, but the end goal of selling commodity crops is largely subject to the whim of global market forces. In recent years, trade disputes and tariffs, coupled with hurricanes, drought and a series of bad harvests, have made life tough on the farm. Two trade agreements brokered by the Trump administration, one between the U.S. and China, and another between the U.S., Canada and Mexico...

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