A group of Indonesian farmers traveled 9,000 miles to find food for their chickens.

That’s how good Minnesota soybeans are.

“Our soybeans from the north are very clean, low disease, low foreign material and dry, and the quality of the protein may be better than the quality of the protein from higher-protein soybeans,” Seth Naeve, a University of Minnesota soybean expert, told the prospective buyers. “It’s a different perspective than crude protein content, but we’re trying to focus on what the animal wants.”

Soybean farmers are in dire straits this year as China refuses to buy U.S. soy in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs, causing prices to tank and harvests to sit unsold. But farmers aren’t just waiting around for a federal bailout; they’re looking for alternative buyers

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