Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Hinson says things are "moving in the right direction" when it comes to President Donald Trump's trade policies.

Iowa farmers have been struggling with rising costs, low corn and soybean prices and declining farmland values, while China, one of the world's largest soybean purchasers, stopped buying U.S. soybeans earlier this year in response to tariffs from the Trump administration.

But Trump is on a tour of Asia this week to sign new trade agreements. He struck a deal with Japan on Tuesday, Oct. 28 and is expected to sign a deal with China when he and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet on Thursday. Trump administration officials have already announced they expect China to agree to buy a "substantial" amount of U.S. soybeans as part of the agreem

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