Kirk Ziegler
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A 2014 armed standoff led by the Bundy family in Nevada over cattle grazing ended in federal agents standing down.
That was widely credited for inspiring Ammon Bundy to travel to Oregon in 2016 to take over a federal wildlife refuge.
All the federal cases against the Bundys have since collapsed.
The 41-day armed standoff in Oregon left one dead.
These bridge payments, as the president is calling them, should be coming to farmers early next year.
Many like Kevin Dynert are on thin margins due to inflation, tariffs, and Trump's trade war closing off Asian markets for soybeans.
Most here in the Dakotas are grown for export.
Pretty much all of Dynert's soybeans are still sitting in storage.
He's holding out for higher prices and is counting on the administration's promises that it's secured deals with China so that country begins importing commodities from the U.S.
Kirk Ziegler, NPR News, Mitchell, South Dakota.