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3 reasons Midwest farmers hurt by the U.S.-China trade war still support Trump

  • Written by Wendong Zhang, Assistant Professor of Economics, Iowa State University
3 reasons Midwest farmers hurt by the U.S.-China trade war still support TrumpIt's harvest time.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

America’s farmers have borne the brunt of China’s retaliation in the trade war that President Donald Trump launched in 2018.

One reason: China is the biggest buyer of many U.S. agricultural products, such as soybeans, grain sorghum, cotton and cattle hides, which made these products an obvious...

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