US Farmers Face Double Whammy of Trade War and Bumper Crops (1)

For American farmers traveling through the Heartland scouting corn and soybean fields, it feels like 2019 all over again.

President Donald Trump is back in power, a trade war with top soybean buyer China is raging, and growers are coping with prices that are near the lowest levels in years. Huge crops ahead are only going to make matters worse.

It’s a familiar picture for the more than 40 growers, analysts and journalists taking part in the annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour that started Monday and will cross seven states before ending in Minnesota on Thursday. In 2019, they were ...