Corn and soybean farmer Lorenda Overman from North Carolina has been selling her crops at a loss and delaying paychecks to her workers since the U.S. trade war with China tanked agriculture prices, and her farm\u2019s debt recently topped $2 million.<\/p>\n
If the Trump administration fails to clinch a deal with Beijing soon to end the trade dispute, she says, her operation may have a hard time staying afloat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need some stability, we need some action and we need it now,\u201d Overman, who farms in Goldsboro, said via telephone.<\/p>\n
Her desperation reflects the mounting urgency across U.S. farm country over ongoing talks aimed at ending Washington\u2019s trade dispute with China and pulling the U.S. agriculture industry out of its worst crisis since the 1980s. <\/p>\n
U.S. trade negotiators currently locked in talks with their Chinese counterparts are demanding Beijing change the way it does business with the United States, providing more access for U.S. companies, enforcement of intellectual property protection and an end to industrial subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Corn and soybean farmer Lorenda Overman from North Carolina has been selling her crops at a loss and delaying paychecks to her workers since the U.S. trade war with China tanked agriculture prices, and her farm\u2019s debt recently topped $2 million. If the Trump administration fails to clinch a deal with Beijing soon to end the trade dispute, her operation may have a hard time staying afloat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":68796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,9],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n