South Dakota farmers on front lines of global trade war caught between fear and hope

Open this photo in gallery: A little less than one in two rows of soybeans in the U.S. is grown for export with nearly one in three rows going to China. A farmer harvests crops in Presho, S.D., on Oct. 13, 2024.Andrew Burton/Getty Images Tanner Hento doesn't spend much time driving the tractor that tills and plants his fields. Autonomous control takes care of most of that work, adjusting the density of fertilizer and the population of seeds to soil conditions that can change dramatically within a hundred metres. "You hit the start button and then you come back in…