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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChickpeas Sit In Silos As Trump's Trade Wars Wage On
December 31, 20189:00 AM ET
ANNA KING
On a recent rainy day, farmer Allen Druffel stands outside a silo shuffling his feet in the gravel. This co-op bin is where he stores his dried garbanzo beans in the tiny town of Colton, Wash. The place should be busy; trucks should be loading and hauling this year's crop to markets and international ports. But midafternoon, there's just the rain.
Since farmers like Druffel brought in this year's crops, hardly any garbanzos or chickpeas have moved.
"Thirty to 40 percent of our total revenue is in the bin," Druffel says. "And we're not sure what we want to do with it."
And it's bad times for lentils and peas, too. In the agriculture industry, these are all called pulse crops. The largest importers of U.S. pulse crops have slapped tariffs on them, and they've been sitting in silos ever since.
Bitter bumper
The real trouble started early this year, with the U.S. pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Then came President Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. China and India are the two largest buyers of American garbanzos, peas and lentils, and those exports have all but stopped. Other countries are holding off on buying them, too, while the prices are unstable.
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Chickpeas Sit In Silos As Trump's Trade Wars Wage On (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2018
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Codeine
(25,586 posts)1. Just tell Trump "chickpeas"
and hell be alllll over this.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)2. He will deny being in Moscow.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)4. Oh goddammit.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)5. What's the difference between a garbanzo and a chickpea?
Last edited Mon Dec 31, 2018, 06:29 PM - Edit history (1)
Trump never had a garbanzo on his bed.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)3. Hummus and various healthy middleeastern dishes should be made by
patriotic Americans to use this supply. I KNOW I have been doing my share - between Hummus, and a salad with spiced chickpeas and in the stew for couscous.
Seriously, Trump has miscalculated badly. Now that TPP started without us -- we will lose many sales.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)6. republicans have pissed on America's farmers
deplorable
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)7. Chickpea farmers suffering 'a real catastrophe' after Trump's trade war tanks prices by more than ha