President Donald Trump is expected to announce a significant bailout package to help farmers as early as Tuesday.

Trump’s trade policies have had an outsized impact on farmers. China, the biggest buyer of U.S. soybean exports, isn’t buying any beans. That’s choking off a big export market for farmers like Paul Freeman in Starbuck, Minn.

“The American farmer is going to try and weather the storm best we know how. We'll adapt and try different things,” he said.

Freeman is getting squeezed from all directions. Not only is China boycotting U.S. soybeans amidst a trade war, but the Mississippi River is facing low water levels, which is driving up barge rates. That makes transporting soybeans on the river more expensive and drives up the cost of things like fertilizer and herbicides that trav

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