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Situation that farmers are in. 1 in 5 jobs in iowa is tied directly to trade. most of that is around the farming sector, our agricultural sector. so it is very tense times, but as we have heard from our farmers, they do want us to find a path forward with china. the tariffs are hurtful right now, but the president will continue negotiating. we hope that we can get a deal soon. but to put it best, i think it came from a farmer in iowa after one of our farmer round tables. he stood up and said, i get why the president is doing this, what i don't get is why we don't have a president who didn't st...

But you have also said we do need a deal with china. at what point are you willing to say time's up, mr. president, we're not going to get a deal. help my farmers. >> well, this is a really difficult situation that the farmers are in. just to remind the viewers that one in five jobs in iowa is tied directly to trade. most of that is around the farming sector, our agricultural sector. so, it is very tense times. but as we have heard from our farmers, they do want us to find a path forward with china. the tariffs are hurtful right now. but the president will continue negotiating. we hope that we...

We could have a deal with canada and new mexico. the ministration is trying to clear the deck so we can focus on china. we could be taking terrors of canada and mexico on steel goods which would allow them to unwind some of their retaliation on our farmers. that is some good news but john is a huge consumer of american commodities and as long as we have a war with them, it really is going to squeeze our farming sector. the other thing i say is look out for farm debt and particularly, banks in the midwest that are worth a lot of money to farmers that will find the loans coming due without payme...

Upped the tires are pushing back. i will say we are at a moment right now when negotiations are in a great state of flux and they really could give you their way and turn into a long-term problem. eric: what does that mean for farmers? i mean the guys in maine, far away from kansas are being slowly hit all pretty hard. >> you name it. the farming sector of the country unfortunately, is caught in the crosshairs of the trade negotiation because what happens is we put tariffs on goods produced by other countries, namely, china. and they retaliate by knocking or farmers no soybean producers becaus...

Sinatra launched an offensive against the rights of the country's indigenous communities his priorities are mining in agribusiness today cyclist's unity as used to have the farming lobby now about sinatra has made her agriculture minister and put her in charge of indigenous land as it nation's the government wants to expand farm land and open it up for commercial exploitation for the mass production of cotton and soy for export to china also to buy we can double agricultural land for soil farming today our output is 120000000 tonnes and soon we'll be producing 240000000 tonnes. and that goal m...