Aug 12, 2019

Planes, trade and automobiles

A worker fits a part to a wing of an Airbus passenger plane in Hamburg, Germany in 2017. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Protests shut down the airport in Hong Kong. Another trade war brews between the U.S. and Europe. Keeping track of what farmers could and could not plant.

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Who's planting? Who's not? Who wants to know?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Aug 12, 2019

Getting a grasp on acreage planted by farmers was harder this year because of bad weather.

A farmer walks through his soy fields in 2018, in Harvard, Illinois.

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Trade showdown

As the U.S.-China trade war rages, an even bigger battle with Europe is brewing

by Stephen Beard

Aug 12, 2019

Europe braces for renewed hostilities with the United States over import tariffs.

A worker fits a part to a wing of an Airbus passenger plane in Hamburg, Germany in 2017.

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Music from the episode

Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi Radiohead

The team

David Brancaccio Host

Victoria Craig Host, BBC

Stephen Ryan Senior Producer, BBC

Jonathan Frewin Producer, BBC

Daniel Shin Producer

Brian Allison Engineer

Meredith Garretson Morbey Senior Producer

Erika Soderstrom Producer

Rose Conlon Producer

Alex Schroeder Producer

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