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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, Jan. 4, 2019

Max Armstrong talks about the grain embargo of the 1980s and the trade war now with China.

January 4, 2019

Max can't help but think of what happened Jan. 4, 1980. Of the action taken by the White House that stunned farmers, by embargoing grain sales to the old Soviet Union.

Now, Donald Trump's decision to wager trade war with our largest trade partner is making waves in the ag industry. Is this lost market share forever? The trade lunacy, it seems, is bipartisan.

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