Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 136, Number 28, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 12 July 2018 — Page 6

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• Advance News • Thursday, July 12, 2018

Hoosier farmers waiting for word on soybean tariff

Hoosier farmers had anticipated all week that the Trump administration would impose $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the United States. Friday morning, the administration did just that. In return, China retaliated by putting tariffs on an equal amount of U.S. goods. Among those goods are com and soybeans, the STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF ELKHART IN THE ELKHART CIRCUIT COURT 2018 TERM CAUSE NO 20C01 -1806-ES-000026 IN RE: THE ESTATE OF VERA M. LOUCKS NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of June. 2018, Loren Loucks and Lynn B. Loucks, were appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Vera M. Loucks, deceased, who died on May 8, 2018. All persons having claims against this estate, whether or not now due, must file the claim in the office of the Clerk of this Court within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or, within nine (9) months after the decedent's death, whichever is earlier, or the claims will be forever barred. Dated at Goshen, Indiana, this 25th day of June, 2018. Wendy Hudson Clerk. Elkhart Circuit Court Loren R. Sloat, #363-20 KINDIG & SLOAT, PC Attorney for the Estate P.O. Box 31 102 Heritage Parkway Nappanee, Indiana 46550-0031 (574) 773-7996 July 12,19.2018 AN286128 hspaxlp

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most common grain crops in Indiana. "Short-term, it is definitely going to put a pinch on," Geiger, who farms about 1,000 acres of soybeans, said of the 25 percent count-er-tariff from China on soybeans. The state's agriculture industry had lobbied the Trump administration to take a measured approach to imposing tariffs to adjust the trade imbalance between the two countries, according to Jane Ade Stevens, chief executive officer of the Indiana Soybean Alliance, the Indiana Com Marketing Council and Indiana Com Growers Association. "Obviously we are hoping that we can come to some agreements in some of these trade disputes," Ade Stevens said. "We recognize China has not been a fair player in intellectual property disputes." International market Indiana's top ag export is soybeans, according to Christopher Hurt, agriculture economist at Purdue University. "Soybeans, at $1.7 billion, dwarf every other category," Hurt said. "About 60 percent of U.S. soybean exports go to China. That is a reasonable estimate for Indiana bean exports." While Indiana's sec-ond-largest ag export is com, Hurt said China only buys .2 percent of U.S. com production. Mexico is the top destination for Indiana

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PHOTO PROVIDED On the farm: Rob Geiger and his son Brooks recently look over soybeans growing in a field on his farm south of Benton in Elkhart County.

com exports, he said, and that country has been threatening a 10 percent retaliatory tariff on farm products, including com, in response to Trump's earlier tariffs on steel and aluminum. Hurt said the imposition of tariffs on soybeans by the Chinese will impact the price offered to Hoosier farmers. "We expect prices to be about 5 percent lower because of the Chinese soybean tariff," Hurt said. "A good bit of that price decline is likely to be in the market already. Bean price declines could be larger, especially

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in the short-run as markets adjust to reduced exports to China and some pickup to Europe and other buyers." Ade Stevens explained the Chinese mostly use soybeans to feed swine to meet the growing demand for pork in the nation's food market. "We want to sell soybeans and they are wanting to buy," Ade Stevens said, noting a Chinese trade team recently visited the state and indicated they want to continue to buy U.S. soybeans. "They still want to be good partners, but they don't know what the rules

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will be." Hurt expects China's need for soybeans will mean the country will still buy beans from the U.S., even after tariffs are imposed. "China is a massive world buyer of soybeans and they will need to buy a lot of beans from the U. 5.," he said. 'This is to say that the volume that China needs cannot be purchased from the rest of the world. However, U.S. origin beans will soon be the highest priced beans for China due to the 25 percent tariff. This means China will buy all the cheaper beans they can get

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from South America first, and only buy the minimum needed from the U.S." The losers in a trade war involving soybeans are the producers and consumers, Hurt indicated. "This is costly to the soybean farmers who take a loss of up to $3 billion per year and to the Chinese consumers with similar losses up to $3 billion per year," he said. "The big winners are the South American soybean growers." Geiger is optimistic that Hoosier farmers will be able to move beyond the expected downturn in trade with China. "China is the biggest buyer, but they are not the only buyer," Geiger said. "If they are buying from other countries to fill their need that we can't fill, then we are probably going to have opportunities to open markets in other countries as well, I think." Waiting for the news Montgomery County in central Indiana was the state's top producer of soybeans in 2017. The county's Purdue Extension Educator, Ashley Adair, said bean growers there have not been overly concerned about the tariff issue. "There is a lot of uncertainty and a little bit of trepidation about it as well. But I did not hear a lot of concern," she said earlier this week.

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