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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 02:24 PM Jun 2019

Wisconsin soybean farmer: Trump's China tariffs tweet "cost me $40,000."

The New York Times
@nytimes

“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 Trump’s 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
That was the December Futures Wellstone ruled Jun 2019 #1
Don't worry, he'll extort more from the taxpayers and ooky Jun 2019 #2
And yet they'll still vote for him next year. Initech Jun 2019 #3
I live right in the middle of it. LakeArenal Jun 2019 #4
Vote for him again--that'll fix it! durablend Jun 2019 #5
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. That was the December Futures
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 02:32 PM
Jun 2019

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.

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
4. I live right in the middle of it.
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 03:53 PM
Jun 2019

Folks with their We Back the Badge and Hillary For Prison signs up can stuff their soybeans up their cornhole.

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