Indiana Farm Bureau President Randy Kron says although he’s encouraged by the trade truce between the U.S. and China, there are still a lot of issues to resolve.
“My concern would be that we send false market signals to other countries and they start expanding acres because their prices are better than ours because China isn’t buying from us,” he says. “If you bring other acres into production, that could have long-term effects on what happens.”
He tells Brownfield an agreement needs to be reached sooner rather than later because of the down farm economy.
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