When Mike Clemens voted for Donald Trump, the North Dakota farmer never imagined the president would push trade policies that would eliminate buyers for his soyabeans.
As Mr Trump has campaigned ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, he has told his base in agricultural states — from Iowa to North Dakota — that he is helping farmers. But Mr Clemens does not agree.
At his farm in Wimbledon, Mr Clemens and his son-in-law Joe Ericson described how the market had dried up since China put retaliatory tariffs on US soyabeans after Mr Trump started a trade war. In recent months, almost no freight trains have left North Dakota carrying soyabeans to the Pacific Northwest for shipment to China.
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