With the recent news of President Donald Trump increasing tariffs on Chinese goods from 10 to 25-percent, and the Chinese government coming back with retaliatory tariffs on American goods, it has once again hit the farming industry hard.

Sources say soybean prices are at a ten-year low, and Churdan-area farmer George Naylor says if this keeps up, prices won’t rebound and it will get more out of hand.

“And as long as we are producing fencerow-to-fencerow and they go down and destroy the rainforest to produce more corn and soybeans that creates a big global pile of corn and soybeans, well we’re not going to get a decent price here, anybody knows. And the only outfits that do benefit from that are the great big livestock corporations that feed livestock and confinement and livestocks.”

As for President Trump’s announcement of another federal bailout to help farmers, Churdan farmer Tim Towers says he would rather sell his grain in a free market rather than get money from the federal government. Northeast Adair County farmer Barb Kalbach tells Raccoon Valley Radio the bailout she received last year amounted to $300 on 30,000 bushels of corn, which she was she was able to buy one bag of corn seed.