CLINTON, Wis. — Matt Rehberg knows the last thing he should be doing is making rash decisions.
Matt Rehberg, vice-president of the Wisconsin Soybean Association, will be planting about 1,000 acres of corn and slightly fewer acres of soybeans this spring on his farm near Clinton, Wisconsin. A trade war with China could upend his business, but it's too late to change course on planting now.
Matt Rehberg says farmers are paying attention to President Donald Trump's latest rounds of tariffs, but many are staying the course. 'At the end of the day, we've got to plant and grow a crop and sort it out as we can,' he says.
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"There's no replacing China as a customer. They are the world's biggest soybean customer."
Tanner Johnson, a Barron County farmer who sits on the boards of both the Wisconsin Soybean and the American Soybean associations
