US Soybean Farmers, Deserted by Big Buyer China, Scramble for Other Importers
A trade mission to Nigeria. A memorandum of understanding with Vietnam. A surge of purchases from Bangladesh.
These countries are not typically major customers for soybeans from the U.S. farm belt. But desperate farmers, their trade organizations and President Donald Trump's administration are turning to far corners of the world in hopes of averting a disaster for agriculture from a trade war that has kept China from purchasing U.S. supplies.
The efforts so far are failing to offset the loss of the country's biggest customer for the crop, data and interviews show, with financial pain extending to...
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