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US farm aid could distort production

The Trump administration’s latest farm aid package, announced on 23rd May, should provide some short-term relief to the ailing US farming sector. But direct payments to farmers could exacerbate the oversupply of soybeans in particular and act as a further drag on prices this year.

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