Caleb Ragland
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So.
That's right.
Yeah.
Very easy.
You see a field of soybeans and every fourth row has went to China.
Another interesting visual, before the 2018 trade war, about every third row went to China.
So we lost some market share from the first trade war that we've never regained.
And now we're hanging in the balances of potentially losing more.
And that's very concerning for our industry and for the economy itself.
of rural America and the economy of this country as a whole due to the fact of how important soybeans are to our export market and just agriculture revenue in general.
When you put all the numbers together as a whole, it's a very true, it's just a fact that rural America, the heartland of America, supported President Trump in all three elections.
The numbers say that for themselves.
I mean, you look at the map, the red states and so forth, it's pretty obvious.
Me personally, I have...
voted for President Trump in all three elections.
And I would tell you, it's not necessarily being all Trump, rah-rah, and so forth, but more so just looking at policies in general and so forth.
And there's a lot of other
things besides trade and so forth that come to the table, whether it be regulatory things, tax policy, things with our border.
There's numerous issues that come into play.
And what I would say is in an election, we had two choices for president.