WEST ALTON — Dust clouds billowed as David Bonderer watched his son maneuver the family’s combine to harvest soybeans on a recent fall afternoon.

Bonderer, president of Saale Farm & Grain Co., has been crunching numbers to figure out how much the farm will earn from its 2,500 acres of corn and soybeans. He and other Missouri farmers say they’re worried that President Donald Trump’s trade war, particularly with China, will cost them reliable markets for their crops.

For months now, Trump has threatened, increased, paused and changed tariffs on foreign countries in an effort to reshape the United States’ trade status. The added levies have impacted a wide array of U.S. businesses, from beer to chocolate to furniture to Christmas toys — and prompted retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports, li

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