CONROY, Iowa (KCRG) - While China and the U.S. continue to battle on tariffs, some farmers find themselves in the crossfire. China buys roughly half the soybeans exported from the United States each year -- about $12 billion worth. But the country hasn’t bought any in six months.

For sixth generation farmer Jared Maas, he says the price fluctuation isn’t new.

“It’s slowly kind of making us be more reliant on ourselves and more of an economy where we use the beans ourselves and not having to ship them out because we can’t rely on that market as an export and still make a living I guess,” said farmer Jared Maas.

Still, grain elevators like the one Dwight Gahring manages in Conroy remain busy.

“This year for the most part we’ve been seeing pretty decent yields, we’re not seeing what we h

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