Sorghum Trade Is Drying Up in U.S. After China Imposes Tariffs

[workinclasszero]

Sorghum Trade Is Drying Up in U.S. After China Imposes Tariffs
By Shruti Singh April 20, 2018, 12:21 PM CDT


Bids for sorghum in the Gulf of Mexico have almost disappeared after China’s decision earlier this week to impose a 179 percent tariff on U.S. imports, according to grain-handling company Scoular Co.

“There’s been very little trade,” Bob Ludington, who oversees Omaha-based Scoular’s North America grain and oilseed division, said in an interview Thursday. While some U.S. grain elevators are still bidding for sorghum, “nobody is looking” for it in the Gulf, he said.

Scoular has elevators in Kansas that buy crops including sorghum. The company then ships supplies around the U.S. as well as to Mexico and exporters in the Gulf.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/sorghum-trade-is-drying-up-in-u-s-after-china-imposes-tariffs

[workinclasszero]

1. Lots of pissed off GOP Kansas sorghum farmers now I bet LOL

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[Bengus81]

6. Take that 49 and double it........

And that's about the percentage in western Kansas that voted for Trump in each County.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. This is going to kill Kansas.

Like they don't have enough problems already from their awful Republican Governor.

[dalton99a]

7. And they voted for it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. I know. And they are really paying a huge price.

Kansas is just a huge mess right now.

I have relatives that live in Johnson County and have most of their lives. They love it there.

I just hate having to drive out there. The traffic is horrendous. And there are just miles and miles of housing subdivisions and strip malls. It is so commercial.

I live North of the River in Missouri. We have lots more open space here. But the urban crawl is heading our way. I hate that. But taxes and land are lower here. And there is great access to the freeways and the airport. And the schools are good.

I have to drive to Liberty ( just East of KCMO) and the traffic there is awful. That used to be kind of a quiet little town. Not any more.

[workinclasszero]

12. They sure did!

DUH!!!

No worries GOP farmers, Trump's pals in Big Arga are ready and waiting to snap up your bankrupt family farms for pennies on the dollar at auction!

MAGA baby!

[JustAnotherGen]

4. I don't know

What they expected. It's not like 45/140 had any reservations about this during the 2016 campaign. The eejit ran on this, they voted for "It" and now it's catching them on the ass.

Like - I can't waste one iota of empathy or sympathy on them.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Amazing...mostly 'red' states affected by ...

pres. RUMP's unilateral actions against China via his tariffs and China's response via increased tariffs for Sorghum.

A hugeeeeee market shift. Perhaps this will wake up some of these folks in RUMPland.

[bronxiteforever]

8. The farmers are helping to MAGA

Their pain will be recognized in the Cheeto Presidential Library in a display glass case of his faux tears. It will next to the Hall of Tweets and the Stormy Daniels Wing.
They will have plenty of jobs in coal mines.

[workinclasszero]

13. LOL

[muntrv]

10. You made your bed, now sleep in it, Trumpistas!

[manor321]

11. I have a very tiny violin for them. n/t

[mitch96]

14. Time for cheap beer and whiskey and vodka!!

When times get rough, brake out the one thing that always sells... BOOZE!!! We can be the biggest exporter of sorghum alcohol in the world... Hell we sell the most arms in the world why not booze?
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[dembotoz]

16. understand one of the primary uses in china is for alcohol...

in the interests of multinational understanding i might be open to buy a pint.....

[Achilleaze]

15. republicans pissing on America's farmers

disgusting