Trade tensions with China make US farmers fear losses

WAUSAU, the United States - Luck has not been on the side of American farmers in the midwest this year.

Having endured a record blizzard that swept through the region in mid-April, they now face another potentially more damaging threat - the China-US trade disputes triggered by the Trump administration that, among other things, put soybean farmers' income in jeopardy.

In early April, President Donald Trump proposed to slap tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports. China countered it by planning to levy duties on US exports to China, including soybeans, the main moneymaker for farms in Wisconsin.