re: American farmer: Trump 'took away all of our markets'

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The farmers I know

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You're taking one union head saying something and extrapolating that to a majority of farmers. Flawed logic.

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American farmers have been among the hardest hit so far. China is the top market for many of their biggest crops and Beijing hit those crops with retaliatory tariffs. The Chinese tariffs targeted U.S. farmers because they helped vote Trump into power.

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The trade war has hurt sales of a wide range of agricultural produce, including fresh fruit, meat and grains. The single biggest agricultural export from the U.S. are soybeans, most of which went to China before the trade war.

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To compensate for lost sales to China, the U.S. government has rolled out two rounds of trade aid for farmers, expected to total $28 billion by the time they are done. The U.S. had doled out about $8.6 billion of that as of the end of June.

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U.S. soybean exports to all countries fell to about $15 billion in the period from July 2018 to May 2019, down 27% from $20.6 billion in the same period a year earlier, the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Exports to China alone were down 77% at just $2.5 billion, versus $11.2 billion from July to May a year earlier.

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Well.....there it is.

More fake news.

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