Proposed Chinese tariffs on American goods like the soya bean may hit hardest in Iowa, a key state in Trump’s 2016 victory – but farmers there hope the threat of a trade war is just a ‘hiccup’
Ryan Mickelson is a professional gambler. He doesn’t look like it. The solidly built 34-year-old doesn’t start his days in a Las Vegas hotel room nor does he spend his days palming a deck of cards. Instead, he gets up every day in his one story house a few miles outside Duncombe, Iowa, a small Iowa town with one bar, one church and one post office, and goes to work in the flat green fields of North Central Iowa.
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