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ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. -- A michiana farmer for more than twenty years, Brent Reed rarely gets rattled.

"I don't think you'd be a farmer if you got stressed easy," Reed laughed. His usual main stressor, the weather, proved to be a source of zen this year, despite a late-season drought.

"The good lord blessed us with the rains when we needed it this year," Reed recounted. "So we're seeing everywhere from 10 to 15% above average yields on the soybeans and corn."

In any other year, this kind of surplus would be the happy ending of this story.

However, these are not typical times. This bumper crop could actually be a bad thing, due to the United States' tariff stalemate with China

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