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North Dakota soybean farmer Peter Lovas says the U.S.-China trade war threatens his family's plan to keep planting soybeans on half of its 8,000 acres. China is a major market for many U.S. soybean growers, and the dispute is hurting their finances.
Feature reporting on farm-level pain conveys no new supply or demand shift, though a possible shift away from soybean acreage would matter for future supply over time.
npr.orgJim ZarroliSep 19, 2018After 803 past bearish trade events, Soybeans moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.7% to +1.7%), and +0.9% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
