America Bet the Farm on Soybeans. Then Came Trump.
prospect.org

... Soybean farmers across the U.S. are facing a uniquely difficult harvest season. Nominally priced at about $24.5 billion, soybeans are the US's top agricultural export, popular due to their flexible usage and stability in storage.

The world relies on products born from soybeans, which are used for everything from tofu to livestock feed, and people will pay big money for them. Last year, China bought around $12.6 billion worth of American soybeans (about half the total, as usual), with the European Union ($2.45 billion) and Mexico ($2.3 billion) following in second and third place.

But as a result of President Trump's ongoing trade war, China stopped buying soybeans from the US in May, leaving the agricultural industry with a gaping void that has exposed the true instability of the farm economy.

There's little prospect of those sales ever coming back, as China has already found replacement soybeans from Brazil and Argentina. Without that export market, the American farm economy is in deep and immediate trouble. ...

Trump canceled 94 million pounds of food aid. Here's what never arrived.
northdakotamonitor.com

... ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food that never reached food banks because of the administration's cuts. ...