american agriculture. and this is a very, very important matter. joining me now to talk about this aspect of the plan is tony mellenthin. he is a soy bean farmer who is president of the wisconsin soy bean association. tony, it is fair to say there are lots of things about a trade deal that go into place, can be removed. and things can come back to normal. but what has happened to the soy bean farmers in the last year and a half, it will take a very long time to bring that pack ba normal if we ever get back to normal. yes, you are absolutely correct. last 18 to 20 months have been very difficult for american soy bean farmers. and not only that, but we sent the message to our south american competitors that they can replace our production. so they ve cleared the rainforest and they ve brought millions of acres into production. so we will compete against that forever now. i think that s a really important point. when people were watching these fires in the amazon, there was a piece of
and theeshue of hong kong as part of a negotiations in any trade palkct? certainly they need to know that we stand with them and fehr going to purp trait a repeat, they will be isolate frud from democratic world. we can find areas of cooperation. now obviously the current strategy, i m not even sure you can call it a strat ag. the current pattern of poking china in the eye isn t working. it s crushing american soy bean farmers and other farmers and american consumers. we re already estimated to be paying 500 to $1,000 more, americans, because of this trade war. i dont know where we re going to get spl of that kind of money. what are we suppose toad to do r