US soya bean farmers left exposed in Trump's tariff wars

The US is the second-largest exporter of soya beans globally, selling more than half its yield to about 80 countries, in a trade worth more than $27bn per year

More than 500,000 American farmers grow soya beans, and there are hundreds of thousands of soya bean industry jobs.

Farmers worldwide are in the frontline of Donald Trump’s trade war.

Perhaps the most nervous of all are the soya bean growers of Louisiana.