philadelphia. we ll follow that story. some of america s hardest working men and women are farmers. and they are feeling caught in the middle of a president trump s fight with china on trade. and they re asking the president to rethink his position on the matter before it s too late for them. correspondent doug mckelway has part one of our series on the fate of american farms. douglas comey and his employees arrive at one of hundreds of fields they farm throughout virginia. but the wind means spreading fertilizer will have to wait. unpredictable weather like this has kept farmers looking at the up sky for centuries. today they are also looking towards washington. china has trend retaliation of the proposed 25% tariff on u.s. corn, s soybeans and many other u.s. agricultural exports. it would put many people out of business, including maybe myself. we can t keep going without nothing. the looming trade war has rallied farm state lawmakers who see widespread economic