What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war

And over the last month, these exports have been caught up in a trade war and subject to enormous retaliatory tariffs. The idea was that the tariffs would make these Chinese products more expensive so people in the U.S. would buy fewer of them and maybe buy more American goods instead. Today on the show, what happened in 2018, how the government stepped in to prevent U.S. farms from going bankrupt, and what was lost even after the trade war ended.