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Recent headlines have focused on soybean trade deals with China, but the farm crisis runs deeper than tariffs. Farmers of all major crops consistently lose money, a "losing streak" fueled by a flawed U.S. Farm Bill and a decades-long, agribusiness-backed mythology regarding the power of export markets.![]()
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Beyond soybeans and China, the U.S. farm economy is broken
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The plight of U.S. soybean farmers and lost exports to China has splashed across headlines this fall. Trump administration trade chaos has exposed deeper problems with an export-focused agriculture ec...