Farmers nationwide are feeling the effects of new tariffs announced by China on April 2, but California growers have been hit the hardest. Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture Karen Ross met with local farmers Thursday in Lodi to highlight just how devastating the roughly $500 million in new duties on the nation’s agricultural goods is to the state’s economy. On March 8, the Trump administration announced global steel and aluminum tariffs to protect U.S. producers, exempting many nations – but not China.