Chinese Soybean Purchases Plant Seeds of Concern for US Farmers

Farmer Scott Halpin is facing another year of high prices for seed and fertilizer, and low prices for the corn and soybeans his family is planting on farmland outside Morris, Illinois. “Equipment is expensive,” he told VOA while taking a break from loading seed into the John Deere planter that will eventually place them in the soil. “Land is expensive. It costs a lot of money to put a crop in the ground.” As U.S. farmers head to their fields to plant this year’s crop, they face new...

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