Some believe Trump’s tactics could eventually pay dividends, others fear losing the world’s biggest importer of agricultural commodities

There is a major divide in the American heartland.

US farm states are facing a drop in exports of key commodities as Beijing turns to alternative suppliers, primarily in Brazil, as a result of Donald Trump’s trade war.

Some farmers, however, want to give the US president the benefit of the doubt that his go-slow approach to Beijing will eventually bear fruit in the form of more orders from China as well as other trading partners.

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