(CNN) – Right now, the Supreme Court is weighing President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement tariffs.

However, in the meantime, soybean farmers are among those feeling the impact of the trade war, even as China has agreed to purchase soybeans from the U.S. as part of recent trade negotiations.

John Bartman, a fifth-generation soybean farmer in Illinois, has crops that contribute to the United States’ largest agricultural export.

Last year, it valued at more than $24 billion, according to USDA data.

China bought 53% of those exports, but this past September, imported zero.

Bartman says, “It’s what we do in this country, we export food, and we can’t do that right now.”

In May, China played an effective embargo on U.S. soybeans in retaliation to Trump administration ta

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