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    ‘What's going on in the world’: Trade negotiations crucial for area agriculture
    DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Frayne Olson studied agricultural economics in college. But now, the North Dakota State University extension crop economist/marketing...
    business/agricultureJanuary 20, 2019 - 6:00am
    January 14, 2019
    Support for Trump may be softening but not ending among farmers
    Farmers are used to playing the long game. Bad weather comes and goes, prices rise and fall, but they are a patient lot. So it is with their support for Donald Trump.
    news/government-and-politicsJanuary 14, 2019 - 9:34am
    January 8, 2019
    U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Michelle Rook / Forum News Service
    Shutdown stalls Trump farm bailout created in response to trade war
    WASHINGTON - The government shutdown has stalled President Donald Trump's program to send billions of dollars to farmers hurt by the trade war...
    business/agricultureJanuary 8, 2019 - 6:00pm
    Farmers are expected to plant more acres of corn and less acres of soybeans in 2019. Michelle Rook / Forum News Service
    Acreage expected to shift to more corn next season: Many farmers still on the fence
    Farmers regionally and nationally are talking about planting more corn and fewer soybeans in 2019. This follows a year of disastrous soybean...
    business/agricultureJanuary 8, 2019 - 6:00am
    December 3, 2018
    President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, China's president, shake hands during a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. Bloomberg photo by Qilai Shen.
    Commentary: Trump deserves some credit for a truce with China
    Just because the U.S. and China have agreed to call a truce in their trade war doesn't mean that it's over: This was a classic exercise in can-kicking....
    opinion/columnsDecember 3, 2018 - 9:28am
    November 15, 2018
    COMMENTARY: Why Trump’s trade war alarms me
    There are several things that alarm or annoy me about President Donald Trump’s trade war. Here are the three most troublesome: First and foremost, I’m concerned for U.S. farmers and consumers worldwide. The Trump tariffs have cut into U.S. ag exports and threaten to hurt consumers...
    business/agricultureNovember 15, 2018 - 6:00am
    November 13, 2018
    Bags of corn and soybeans sit in rows at Gingerich Farms in this aerial photograph taken over Lovington, Ill., on Nov. 9, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    Frozen out of China, American farmers refuse to sell their soybeans
    Caught smack in the middle of the U.S.-China trade war, America's soybean farmers are taking a huge gamble. Rather than selling the crop right...
    business/agricultureNovember 13, 2018 - 10:18am
    November 11, 2018
    Photo courtesy of Creative Commons.
    Asian grocers in US are bearing the brunt of China trade war
    Assistant Manager Dong Zheng paced the aisles of his Asian grocery store in Maryland with an urgent task: Slap higher prices on about 50 different...
    news/nationNovember 11, 2018 - 10:44am
    November 6, 2018
    Soybeans are harvested south of Luverne, N.D., Oct. 29, 2018. North Dakota’s soybean crops are flourishing. But China has stopped buying. (Dan Koeck/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Economist that called US-China trade war sees deal in 2019
    An economist who accurately predicted the rising trade tensions between the U.S. and China now sees a likely resolution of the dispute next year....
    news/government-and-politicsNovember 6, 2018 - 1:32pm
    October 12, 2018
    The Soro Enshi container ship at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai on July 10, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Qilai Shen.
    China's trade surplus with the US hit record $34.1 billion in September amid trade war
    BEIJING - China's trade surplus with the United States hit a new record last month, defying - for now, at least - President Donald Trump's predictions...
    news/government-and-politicsOctober 12, 2018 - 9:31am
    September 28, 2018
    File photo of soybeans. (April Baumgarten/Grand Forks Herald/Forum News Service)
    Farmers will hoard beans to ride out trade war, Bunge ceo says
    U.S. soybean growers who are starting to harvest what's predicted to be a bumper crop probably will look to weather the trade war with China...
    business/agricultureSeptember 28, 2018 - 1:18pm
    September 24, 2018
    Brian O'Toole, pictured here in 2016, believes that tariffs and trade war are punishing U.S. farmers rather than other economies. Nick Nelson / Forum News Service
    ND farmer: 'We're only spanking ourselves' with tariffs
    CRYSTAL, N.D. — Brian O'Toole ticks off the 10 Southeast Asian and Latin American countries he's visited, some more than once, to promote...
    business/agricultureSeptember 24, 2018 - 6:00am
    September 8, 2018
    President Donald Trump speaks during an event on tax policy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Al Drago
    Trump threatens to expand trade war to all Chinese imports entering the US
    President Donald Trump said Friday, Sept. 7, that he is ready to impose tariffs on $267 billion in Chinese goods, on top of the additional $200...
    news/government-and-politicsSeptember 8, 2018 - 11:49am
    August 10, 2018
    Mikkel Pates
    Commentary: Tariff trade war could swamp soy growers when they're down
    As America wades into its new trade war, I've been thinking a lot about an interview I had with former Manitoba Premier Dufferin "Duff" Roblin....
    opinion/columnsAugust 10, 2018 - 3:48pm
    July 29, 2018
    Mike Dahlen holds a sample of soybeans from his Northwood, ND, farm. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
    Farmers wonder how ag 'bailout' for farmers affected by trade war will work
    ROLETTE, N.D.—A multibillion-dollar package meant to combat agricultural losses in a trade war with China has left farmers and economists...
    business/agricultureJuly 29, 2018 - 6:43am
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