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    Default 'It can't get any worse': Iowa farmers suffer as U.S. trade war with China escalates

    Battling rain and cold, crumbling trade talks with China, and slumping commodity markets, northern Iowa farmer Brent Renner says it's a struggle to feel optimistic about the corn and soybeans he's planting.

    "It's a physical and mental challenge," said Renner, a 43-year-old who farms near Klemme, a town of about 500 people west of Clear Lake.

    "A lot of us think it can't get any worse, that it can only go up from here. But that's probably not a safe bet," he said.

    Prospects for improved prices are dimming, experts say, with record supplies, disease sweeping through China's pig herd and cutting soy demand, and hope for a new U.S.-China trade deal slipping away.



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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Battling rain and cold, crumbling trade talks with China, and slumping commodity markets, northern Iowa farmer Brent Renner says it's a struggle to feel optimistic about the corn and soybeans he's planting.

    "It's a physical and mental challenge," said Renner, a 43-year-old who farms near Klemme, a town of about 500 people west of Clear Lake.

    "A lot of us think it can't get any worse, that it can only go up from here. But that's probably not a safe bet," he said.

    Prospects for improved prices are dimming, experts say, with record supplies, disease sweeping through China's pig herd and cutting soy demand, and hope for a new U.S.-China trade deal slipping away.



    https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...se/1143730001/
    sorry, but you really don't understand global agricultural markets......
    One year ago in July, the top three destinations for U.S. soybean exports were familiar names: China, Mexico and Netherlands. This year, not only did Egypt replace China as the top destination, its 10.9 million-bushel (mb) increase in shipments offset China's 10.8 mb reduction.

    Shipments were also stepped up to Netherlands, Indonesia, Pakistan and Colombia. Not only did China's tariff not cause a drop in U.S. soybean exports, July U.S. soybean shipments actually increased to 125.9 mb from 85.2 mb a year ago. The world smells a bargain.
    https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/we...many-tentacles

    as the graph shows, on any given day the price of soybeans in Brazil is virtually a mirror of the price of soybeans in the US.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    sorry, but you really don't understand global agricultural markets......

    https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/we...many-tentacles

    as the graph shows, on any given day the price of soybeans in Brazil is virtually a mirror of the price of soybeans in the US.....
    so why are farmers going bankrupt, hint, they have lost markets and why is trump bailing them out
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    Soybean Farmer Loses From Retaliatory Tariffs With No Bailout Funds In Sight

    https://www.npr.org/2019/05/11/72247...funds-in-sight



    U.S. farmers are stuck in a bad version of "Groundhog Day"

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    Trump Trade Tweets Send Grain Markets Diving to 42-Year Low


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    More Iowa farmers face trouble securing financing as planting season nears

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    sorry, but you really don't understand global agricultural markets......

    https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/we...many-tentacles

    as the graph shows, on any given day the price of soybeans in Brazil is virtually a mirror of the price of soybeans in the US.....

    farmers are projected to have the third worst year since records have been kept in 2019

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Battling rain and cold, crumbling trade talks with China, and slumping commodity markets, northern Iowa farmer Brent Renner says it's a struggle to feel optimistic about the corn and soybeans he's planting.

    "It's a physical and mental challenge," said Renner, a 43-year-old who farms near Klemme, a town of about 500 people west of Clear Lake.

    "A lot of us think it can't get any worse, that it can only go up from here. But that's probably not a safe bet," he said.

    Prospects for improved prices are dimming, experts say, with record supplies, disease sweeping through China's pig herd and cutting soy demand, and hope for a new U.S.-China trade deal slipping away.



    https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...se/1143730001/
    Like you really give a fuck, your only real interest is in Trump bashing. Those farmers are almost certainly mostly white Christians, hypocritical cunt!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    so why are farmers going bankrupt, hint, they have lost markets and why is trump bailing them out
    farmers have been going bankrupt since the 1920s.......

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    Thank God Trump is fixing these horrible trade deals.

    It took a leader and it is about time

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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    farmers are projected to have the third worst year since records have been kept in 2019
    as the chart shows......soybean farmers in Brazil are in the same shape as soybean farmers in the US......its not because of tariffs......

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    as the chart shows......soybean farmers in Brazil are in the same shape as soybean farmers in the US......its not because of tariffs......

    Bankrupting Farmers to get votes for trump is probably not a smart plan

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Battling rain and cold, crumbling trade talks with China, and slumping commodity markets, northern Iowa farmer Brent Renner says it's a struggle to feel optimistic about the corn and soybeans he's planting.

    "It's a physical and mental challenge," said Renner, a 43-year-old who farms near Klemme, a town of about 500 people west of Clear Lake.

    "A lot of us think it can't get any worse, that it can only go up from here. But that's probably not a safe bet," he said.

    Prospects for improved prices are dimming, experts say, with record supplies, disease sweeping through China's pig herd and cutting soy demand, and hope for a new U.S.-China trade deal slipping away.



    https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...se/1143730001/
    Another leftist CHEERLEADING the Red Chinese's unfair trade practices, and intellectual property theft, as the President seeks to confront and end it.

    It's not the abuses of Red China that are "the problem"; it's Trump confronting them...."Trump's Trade War".

    The American left never met and enemy of America that they didn't like...so sick of the left's DUPLCITOUS BULLSHIT.
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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    Bankrupting Farmers to get votes for trump is probably not a smart plan
    pretending that's his plan is not very smart either......but given the fact you're a demmycrat it's exactly what we expect from you.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    Another leftist CHEERLEADING the Red Chinese's unfair trade practices, and intellectual property theft, as the President seeks to confront and end it.

    The American left never met and enemy of America that they didn't like....
    true, when did the Democrat party decide that being anti American, on everything from stopping the crisis at the border, to trade talks, to dis-arming nuclear rogues, and everything in between, just because Hillary lost is a good strategy.

    She's hopefully a better grandmother than she was a secretary of State, but I am doubting that too. Every time I see her in public she acts like this bitter ole bat who burns dinner just because she doesn't want anyone around her to be happier than her miserable state of mind.
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