# Soybean Farmers Worry About Tariffs' Impact : NPR

> 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.

- Date: 2018-09-19 · published 2018-09-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/63064-soybean-farmers-worry-about-tariffs-impact-npr
- Commodities: [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

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.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOY | 2018-03-29 | [Chinese soybean tariffs would hurt U.S. soybean farmers](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65865-chinese-soybean-tariffs-would-hurt-u-s-soybean-farmers.md) | +1.3% | +1.0% |
| SOY | 2018-03-01 | [Farmers Worry About Trade Retaliation in Soybeans, RFS Tradeoffs for Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66034-farmers-worry-about-trade-retaliation-in-soybeans-rfs-tradeoffs-for-corn.md) | +1.0% | -2.6% |
| SOY | 2025-04-10 | [Trump, tariffs and farmers : NPR](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25114-trump-tariffs-and-farmers-npr.md) | +2.6% | +2.4% |
| SOY | 2018-08-08 | [Canola Farmers Feel Tariff Impact \| Red River Farm Network](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63516-canola-farmers-feel-tariff-impact-red-river-farm-network.md) | -2.8% | -7.2% |
| SOY | 2018-07-19 | [Aquafeed.com \|
   

   
    CHINA - New tariffs on US soybeans unlikely to impact aquatic feed](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64111-aquafeed-com-china-new-tariffs-on-us-soybeans-unlikely-to-impact-aquatic-feed.md) | +2.2% | +1.8% |

## Sources

- npr.org: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649453312/soybean-farmers-worry-about-tariffs-impact

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