Those large (huge) agriculture corporations are just waiting to steal those small farmers farms when Trump puts them out of business. I wonder if Trump gets a kick back.
There was ag market manipulation in his last term. There would be droughts and other issues lowering production, but crop prices would be dropping because of the supposed higher production. Someone was keeping it artificially low to make money, but it wasn’t looked into to my knowledge.
Vance founded an app that helps investors buy up farmland, so at the very least, the VP will be raking it in. It's called AcreTrader and there's no evidence he's divested his financial interests.
The world is entering a downswing of history. I'm not ashamed to shill my dad's book that covers electricity, ammo, water, food, health, and sustainability. These topics are covered in ways that other books do not. Especially making, storing and using electricity.
Corn futures seriously down , have fun at whose expense ? It ain't a beautiful morning , definitely not a beautiul day , will somebody tell that to Oklahoma?
He has no clue. this is a guy who just learned the word. Groceries. He's ordered off a menu all of his life. How can anyone who works for a living believe a word he says. He's never been on a farm in his life. Much too dirty. There aren't enough wipies in the world to protect Prince Wuss.
Have a good friend that co-owns a wheat farm. She says for the most part the wheat farming industry is capital R Republican, but trump REALLY pissed them off his first time in office, and that the grumbling in the industry started again. I’m sure that comment last night went over real well 🙄
Did they vote for him anyway? This I don’t understand. They keep hitting their head on the same wall and don’t make any change to their behavior. And then wonder why they have a massive headache. 🤷🏼♀️ a+b=c is a simple equation.
Or some part of 90million that didn’t vote at all. I have repub friends HATE trump, but no way they were gonna vote blue so they sat this one out. I’m more irritated with those people than the cult followers—they could have prevented all this.
Between tariffs, climate change and rapidly mutating viruses, I don’t think a “family farm” is going to be a viable means of making a living in four years.
Maybe he meant 'have fun while you still own your farm'.. since his policies will force many into bankruptcy where they be bought cheaply by Big Ag because what could ever go wrong having big business control our food supply....
Farmers didn’t have much fun the first time around. They are always in the direct line of fire in tariff wars. Trump either has no idea what tariffs do, or he’s trying to pull the wool down over the eyes of the impressionable while he deliberately sabotages the economy. Both are likely true.
He didn’t come up with the idea. He’s happily following orders from the R deep state. First of all, he’s not intelligent enough. Secondly, he’s their puppet and their front man. Even when he was in “The Apprentice.” That wasn’t devised by him. It was all scripted. Smoke and mirrors is his m.o.
It reminded me of a time a few years ago when a real estate developer proposed closing a major tunnel on DC for months for their construction project, saying "people enjoy finding new ways to get to work."
Let’s not forget in ADDITION to this, they also have the added loss of their USAID contracts. Farmers are going to get wiped off the planet. And Trump is telling them to “have fun”? He’s an evil motherfucker.
You would think the farmers would ask “Why do we always have to tough it out? Why don’t the billionaires have to tough it out for ONCE!” Nope. The poor farmers will suffer and still support the Trump.
And meanwhile, no one in the Democratic Party is messaging to the red State in anyway that they can understand. People are starting to sense. Somethings wrong. The Dems need to lean in and help them understand what it is. That’s actually going on. They’re not getting this information on Fox News.
Bernie turns a lot of people off in the red state. They hear his name they’ll go nowhere near. It’s just where these people are right now. We need to be pulling in Democrats who are skilled in messaging and perceived as the middle of the road. Love Bernie just not the guy for this task.
Well aren't they free of laborers since immigrants are now preemptively fleeing ICE?
I've seen the tiktoks of laden fields, devoid of staff. Oranges, lettuce, peppers, and more. Rotting in place.
Remember when Mao had all the sparrows killed, and the famines that followed?
Hubris kills.
He’s already destroyed their labor force. The state of Nebraska will be bankrupt in 6 months with no labor, then tariffs on fertilizer for the fall crops. Kansas, Iowa, OH, WI, MN, PA are all in the same boat. Plus all tourist towns around Nat Parks It’s going to be a blood bath. +15% unemployment.
I thought everyone knew that... but Trumski claimed $ millions in revenue from his tariffs in his first administration, only to shell out $ millions in farm bailouts. What a fool.
There is a perverse effect discovered by primitive religions long ago, that if people make sacrifices for you, they will become more deeply committed and love you more, to resolve the cognitive dissonance
I think in his addled brain he was telling them to switch their crops for domestic consumption which is an absolutely insane thing to do in March on national television.
Not to mention there's a whole crop insurance plan, which has already been signed up for in 2025, that pays claims STRICTLY based on NOAA data. Should be fine
So I'm curious to know if the money he's going to lay out to the farmer's again, because they'll need it to rescue them from the consequences of his idiot tariff move, will end up being more than Elon says he's saving?
Such a disconnect with American people about how much this is going to damage them. He said there will be a little pain in the beginning, NOT for HIM and his billionaire enablers. In fact they will just rake in their winnings while they play Russian Roulette with the American and World economies
It’s seems like most farmers in my area have price loss coverage under their federal crop insurance. They’re insulated from all this: tariffs won’t affect them because they will get the effective reference price when the market falls. It’s a win-win situation for them.
Yeah, I live in the Central Valley of CA, AKA the #1 Ag region in the nation. I could see the farmers spinning when they can't sell their commodities to foreign countries...
Trump loves to be out there. He isn’t out there promoting his beautiful tariff plan. GDP is negative , it has been growing steadily.So they will do what all felons do change the books.
He will always do the things that crooks do.
Just had dinner where one asshole was laughing at libs because of the speech last night. I was a 30 person dinner so I didn’t interact with him but I could hear him talking about it.
Chris it was also a sad moment. Trade is what keeps certain produce in the grocery store year round. We rely on other countries during off season. We will see prices rise more during off season for certain produce. Plus imported produce is only disgusting and dirty if Trump handled it.
Hey Chris! Can you please put what I posted about what I suggested to the farmers? Trust me on this. I was raised in Wisconsin, and near our town are Amish families who sell their goods to local town folks. They built their shops on their own land.
So happy for Nebraska. They got what they wanted. ICE raids have taken the farm labor, FAFO. Now NE will be bankrupt in 6 mo and farmers won't survive. I hear the Chinese oligarchs have a daily real estate list, so I'm pretty sure you won't have a problem finding a buyer.
Many voted for him. They were more concerned about “wokeness” than the family farm. Now they will lose the farm or become Federal Welfare cases. Then big agriculture companies will come in and buy the land out of bankruptcy. At least the big companies can offered to get their Deere tractor fixed.
You are right and between the two big agriculture companies and China the family owned farm is on life support. Add in price of fertilizer, equipment, interest rates and changing climate, it’s sad.
Like he told RFK Jr. to have fun and go wild with HHS...?
tRump thinks like a two-year-old with a new toy, never realizing that if he throws that toy in three feet of mud, it will sink below the surface and never been seen again. 😠
I LOVE that the agenda for his second term is apparently screwing all his voters first, immediately, at scale, and harder than anyone has ever screwed anyone else, in the history of screwing people.
There should be a Guinness fucking record for this shit.
They voted for him the first time when he promised tariffs that hurt them. They voted for him a second time when he promised tariffs. Now they're hurting from the tariffs Are they idiots?
Then his billionaire friends will conceptualize a parallel department (Gee,what a good idea!), and will charge our federal government a lot more than we’re paying now to run it for us.- I didn’t used to think the worst of people… Until I saw evil incarnate take over…
1/2-Possible that Trump’s abolishing all these departments simply to sell the real estate, tell public ‘look at all the money I got back for you from this valuable unnecessary real estate’. He’ll have his offspring acquire it-discounted for their portfolio. Cuz it’s only ever about enriching himself
Some are speaking out, they may lose their farms, can't find cheap staff previously relied on undocumented immigrants, and approx $7/ hr, min. wage. Who will buy their products previously exported?
Yeah. He said that, under his policies, US farmers will have "a field day." Evidently, this fucking moron doesn't realize that, for farmers, EVERY DAY is "a field day." 😡
I will happily eat dirt cake and mud pies for a year to watch those farms burn and turn to dust. I hope each of them suffer worse than we'll have to suffer, but suffer nevertheless.
They'll walk in that dust, and still blame brown people for their shitty situation. To hell with them all.
President Trumusk tells farmers to 'have fun' while tariffs devastate their livelihoods like a pyromaniac wishing firefighters an enjoyable shift. Nothing reveals aristocratic detachment quite like prescribing merriment to those you've economically executed. Marie Antoinette at least offered cake.
I realize you're being facetious but that is SO NOT FUNNY! The deeds themselves are appalling but the fact of ZERO EMPATHY for the consequences is sickening!
It was infuriating to read that. Farmers already have a high rate of suicides. It’s a hard way to make a living. You often lose a multi-generational legacy when you lose a farm, and something you’ve wanted to do since you were a toddler.
Republicans pander to farmers while screwing them over with their actions. Democrats often vilify farmers with constant talk about us poisoning the public and do little of substance for us legislatively.
On nearly every post about ag issues, there are comments about how we are poisoning public with “chemicals”. I saw even this week comments that the tariffs could make farmers stop poisoning people. Liberal podcast hosts reference all the time how harmful ag chemicals like roundup are.
But doubting you there (I'm not in those spaces), it's just that all the other parts of your statement seemed to be more about R and D public officials, so I took this part to be about officials too, rather than about the general public, which seems like kind of a different thing.
I follow the science on this a lot because my husband does our spraying. My dad does it for the family farm I grew up on. I have not seen actual science showing that commonly used sprays are harmful when used safely, but it accepted as true in the party that claims to follow the science.
I hear ya. I had stopped using Roundup because of the settlements with ag workers about it, until one of my favourite science writers included it in a list of "things you probably believe are scientifically proven that aren't" and went over the science.
The discussion of banning chemicals would set farming back decades in terms of yield, as the population expands and farmland is lost in enormous amounts, but it is talked about an unalloyed good to ban modern ag chemicals.
Now every post I see on the harm to farmers is filled with commenters gleeful about the pain being caused because “we” voted for this. It’s possible the way out of this is for people to feel pain, but I don’t feel any joy in watching others suffer.
But most DID vote for Trump. A racist, a misogynist, conman and a felon. So they were cool with all of it. They were okay with my Black family being harmed as long as it benefited them in some way. I do NOT feel sorry. I’m tired of people normalizing a racist.
Kaitlyn, we’ve seen this movie before. A lot of us felt awful for the farmers Trump screwed with his first-term tariffs. We spent billions in taxpayer funds to bail farmers out. Now most farmers have put their hands back on the hot stove and voted for him again. It’s hard to feel compassion now.
A lot of Midwesterners know what it takes to run a family farm. From dairy to corn and soybeans or peanuts, farming is a complex mix of physical labor, accounting and agriculture science. Harder than politics.
I absolutely feel for farmers. I live in the Bay Area and am very liberal, but I grew up in a small rural (very red) farming community. My relatives farmed, so I know how hard it was for them. I hate that they’re going to be screwed over, whether they voted for it or not.
You would think the first time around with the farmers when Trump basically had to give them welfare money to bail them out, they wouldn't vote for him again...
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/04/minnesota-farmers-fearful-of-tariff-impact
"Have fun" is just code for "I fucked around, but YOU will find out"
Everything is a grift. All of it.
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and many many farmers are the sorry f*ckers who voted for this POS.
Now there’s a case of #retribution!
MORONS say stupid stuff!
Yep. He hopes they have a fun year.
Then, tell those with the guns to “have fun”
https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3ljohxpofck22
But not tariffs. He campaigned on tariffs, he promised tariffs, & during the Sept debate, Harris carefully explained why tariffs are bad
Any farmer who voted for Trump voted for tariffs. 🤷♀️
I've seen the tiktoks of laden fields, devoid of staff. Oranges, lettuce, peppers, and more. Rotting in place.
Remember when Mao had all the sparrows killed, and the famines that followed?
Hubris kills.
is there a "pull in case of emergency" cord on this train?
There’s a good chance it’s pure market manipulation for Trump and his ilk to make more money. It’s also probably why they want the SEC neutered.
https://youtu.be/53ZaXpIn2fg?si=3L-nP6aa6l_uIsbZ
:rolleyes
Too late for a do over??
He will always do the things that crooks do.
tRump thinks like a two-year-old with a new toy, never realizing that if he throws that toy in three feet of mud, it will sink below the surface and never been seen again. 😠
There should be a Guinness fucking record for this shit.
In South Dakota. I never of fun farming from them.
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Fake journalists like Chris Hayes just use it as an opportunity to divide and spread hate.
I’m sure they’ll be fine absorbing the extra cost while selling less of their crops due to tariffs 🤷🏼♂️
They'll walk in that dust, and still blame brown people for their shitty situation. To hell with them all.
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