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NEI Academy.org. You're also tracking the Trump administration looking at ways to mitigate the impact

of the tariffs on farmers, many of these farmers who voted for President Trump. What more do we know

about that? Well, the tariffs and the trade war in particular with

China have had a big impact on American farmers. Last year, China bought more than half of the U.S.'s

soybean products. Now that has dropped down to zero. And the president is said to be working on this

bailout bill that could be $10 billion that could provide some relief to farmers that are facing these

losses, but much of that money cannot be allocated and distributed until after this shutdown is

over. NewsHour spoke to a couple of farmers about the impact that this is already having.

I'm Chris Gibbs, a farmer in West Central Ohio. We own and operate 560 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat.

Tyler's staff on my farm is located fairly close to Macote, North Dakota.

I think what folks need to realize is how much of our soybean crop gets shipped overseas and is purchased by foreign buyers. That's about 50%. Out of that portion,

half of that gets sold historically to China. And China this year has purchased zero amount of our

soybeans, which is unprecedented. I haven't actually marketed any of my beans yet because the price is at a point where I don't want to sell anything.

So what I'm doing at this point is storing my beans, hoping for some type of economic recovery that the price goes up.

In the meantime, yes, I mean, I'm losing money.

We're just about done with our soybeans, and we're $2 a bushel under the cost of production.

That manifests as $100 loss for every acre that I harvest.

So I'm about done with our soybean harvest.

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