soil which makes it you guessed it another commodity caught up in the bitter u.s. china trade war. the rich soil of marathon county in the u.s. state of wisconsin is perfect for growing the medicinal plant gin saying china has been a lucrative market for american gin saying but jin singh is one of the agricultural products subjected to tariffs in the ongoing trade war between washington and beijing the result a 20 percent drop in sales to china farmers fear for their livelihoods they can't react quickly to market changes because ginseng takes up to 5 years to grow and harvest a particular percent of qualcomm last year. on the market and we have a new crop coming up in about 4 to 6 weeks so it's a has been a hard time for jones and farmers here around 2 thirds of the wisconsin genting crop is exported to mainland china jungmann tal started farming ginseng here 9