The trade war is not all that ails the farm sector, but the timing of retaliatory tariffs has exacerbated farmers’ woes. Global commodity prices collapsed in 2014, and prices for key crops and livestock, including corn, soy and pork, have yet to recover. For the past five years, prices received by farmers for all products have fallen or remained low, while prices paid by farmers started to recover in 2017. Though this is not a perfect measure of farm profits, the diverging trends between prices paid and received certainly point toward a squeeze on farm profitability.The trade war’s impacts have been unevenly distributed across the country. The hardest-hit agricultural producers were those exposed to trade with China, namely soy and pork producers in the Midwest. In these areas, farm incomes have dropped by more than 30% between the first and second quarters of 2019. Filings for Chapter 12 bankruptcy, a type of bankruptcy that is restricted to family farmers and fishermen, are soaring in the states most impacted by the trade war. Chapter 12 filings in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas are above their Great Recession highs and rising.____Top targets of the trade war: