Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar

By Mark Weinraub and P.J. Huffstutter (Reuters) – U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem – where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers. For Louisiana farmer Richard Fontenot and his neighbors, the solution was a costly one: Let the crops rot. Fontenot plowed under 1,000 of …

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