HURON, S.D. - American farmers are welcoming the $12 billion assistance package President Trump announced for them this week, but there's also evidence that his trade policies are a big reason many farmers aren't profitable this year.

Farmers like Kevin Deinert in South Dakota, who opens the hatch of a shiny silver grain bin on his farm that's full of this year's soybean harvest.

"I stored everything I could, so it's full, as you can see," he says. "A little too full."

In recent years, Deinert's bins would be empty by now, his soybeans sold to China, which has been buying about 25 million metric tons annually from the U.S. since 2019.

But this spring, they started buying them from Brazil and other countries instead, in response to President Trump levying tariffs against Chinese exports

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