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With fall harvest underway, farmers and agriculture industry associations are pleading for an end to a trade war that they say hurts U.S. exports of soybeans and other crops.

China is normally the largest buyer of U.S. soybeans, which are the country’s top food export. But because of tariffs, it has not bought any U.S. soybeans from this fall’s crop, including from Illinois, which is the nation’s largest soybean grower . Instead, China sharply increased their purchase of Argentine soybeans in September.

“We have one billion bushels of soybeans that don’t have a home. So many [U.S.] farmers are hurting now,” John Bartman, a fifth-generation farmer in Marengo, said. “This is a man

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