As China Buys From South America, U.S. Farmers Reel From Soybean Slump Amid Escalating Trade War

Travis Hutchison, a soybean farmer, inspects soybean kernels as he stands on one of his family’s farms in Cordova, Maryland, on October 10, 2025. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP

By Beiyi Seow

The U.S. soybean harvest is underway and in rural Maryland, farmer Travis Hutchison cracks open a pod to show how a field is nearly dry enough for reaping.

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