The following article by Caitlin Dewey was posted on the Washington Post website April 5, 2018:
China imposed tariffs on 128 U.S. goods on April 2. The move is retaliation for tariffs President Trump announced on Chinese aluminum and steel. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)
Bret Davis voted for Donald Trump in 2016, as did many of his fellow farmers in central Ohio. But as a brewing Chinese trade war begins to threaten U.S. exports, Davis fears his fifth-generation farm will suffer.
The farm, where Davis and his stepson grow 1,300 acres of soybeans, corn and wheat for Ritz crackers, may not withstand the long-term drop in crop prices a trade war could bring, Davis said. And although he supports President Trump’s goal of making foreign trade more “balanced,” he’s increasingly concerned that Trump’s methods could harm the rural Americans who helped put him in office. Continue reading “They voted for Donald Trump. Now soybean farmers could get slammed by the trade war he started.”