Sorghum tariffs add to uncertainty for farmers
(WorldNews Business)

A year ago, Chinese officials issued a fist-flying response to President Donald Trump`s plans to raise tariffs by announcing they would slap a 179% levy on grain sorghum, which they use to make liquor and feed ducks. Texas Grain Sorghum Association Director Wayne Cleveland said he recalls a lump forming in his throat. China was a big customer. Sorghum growers already were battling sugarcane aphids and feral hogs. Livestock feeders were leaving sorghum for corn. Tariffs would represent a quadruple whammy, one he said growers could stomach as a brief skirmish in Trump`s battle to right decades of wrongs with China over trade gaps and charges of cheating. But not something that would benefit an...