From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale. This is The Daily.

Today, across the Midwest, farmers voted for Donald Trump,

but hope he would never follow through on his threat of tariffs against China.

For fear of what would come next, retaliation against them by China.

Now, it's happened. It's Thursday, April 5th.

When all South Sea have come in, they'll come to attention.

And they'll be weaned tomorrow.

Elden Gold farms and raises pigs in Maple Park, Illinois.

We called him on Wednesday afternoon, hours after China announced its tariffs.

Do you want to come? Hello?

Hi, I'm trying to reach Mr. Gold. It's Michael Barbarale from The New York Times.

That's not Michael, it's Elden. Oh no, I said I'm Michael.

Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I'm Elden. I'm still Elden.

I hope so. How are you? I'm just fine. Thank you.

I appreciate you taking some time to speak with me.

We'll give it our best shot.

I'm just going to jump right in and ask you some questions about your background and that kind of thing.

So here we go. How did you come into farming?

Well, my father farmed and well, I guess most of my grandfather's did.

I did go to the University of Illinois, but I never had any

thoughts of doing anything other than come back home and farm.

So as I tell people, I've been doing that for 60 years and still trying to learn how to do it right.

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