Farmer warns ‘this is a five-alarm fire’ as time is running out ahead of harvest, and there’s still no China deal
The leafy soybean plants reach Caleb Ragland’s thighs and are ripe for harvest, but the Kentucky farmer is deeply worried. He doesn’t know where he and others like him will sell their crop because China has stopped buying. Beijing, which traditionally has snapped up at least a quarter of all soybeans grown in the U.S., … Read more