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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin soybean farmer: Trump's China tariffs tweet "cost me $40,000."
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That tweet cost me $40,000, Shane Goplin, a farmer in Wisconsin told @PatcohenNYT, explaining that the price of a bushel of soybeans plunged by more than 10 cents after President Trumps threat to impose tariffs on China appeared.
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That tweet cost me $40,000, Shane Goplin, a farmer in Wisconsin told @PatcohenNYT, explaining that the price of a bushel of soybeans plunged by more than 10 cents after President Trumps threat to impose tariffs on China appeared.
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Wisconsin soybean farmer: Trump's China tariffs tweet "cost me $40,000." (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jun 2019
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. That was the December Futures
price,Cash beans are more than a buck and a half below that offer,if you can find a elevator willing to buy your beans.
ooky
(8,885 posts)2. Don't worry, he'll extort more from the taxpayers and
give you maybe some of it back.
Initech
(99,915 posts)3. And yet they'll still vote for him next year.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)4. I live right in the middle of it.
Folks with their We Back the Badge and Hillary For Prison signs up can stuff their soybeans up their cornhole.
durablend
(7,416 posts)5. Vote for him again--that'll fix it!
You just need to give him more time!