So what's this $10B for? Is it for transitioning to produce? Installing irrigation? Rural housing so pickers have somewhere to sleep? Coolers & handling facilities?
Nope.
Just bonus money for growing grain as usual.
Nope.
Just bonus money for growing grain as usual.
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You can do a trade war & cut off food imports. OR you can have a domestic farm sector that's given up on feeding its own country.
You can't do both!
But we are! We're doing both!
If this is how the US farm sector is rolling- along with other issues like forbidding poultry farms from vaccinating flocks against bird flu- we're looking at a recipe for some hunger times.
Which is totally uncalled for!
US family farmers have made more money than non-farmers every single year since 1998. Yes, after you take out farm debts & expenses.
https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/DataFiles/48870/table13December2024.xlsx?v=24334
Taking political payoffs is NOT treating agriculture like a real job.
And voting for trade wars that hurt your bottom line, then robbing the taxpayer to make up for it?
What a joke.
And we don't even see it coming, bc US media has done a terrible job of reporting on ag for decades. I'm so sorry. You deserve better.
It's kinda wild to have your farm sector on fire, and the response is... make videos on "farms as a business 101."
But that's where we're at! We need transparency now more than ever!
instead of that they're Socialism, but mainly for agribusiness and not family farmers.
The current farm situation is a direct reflection of "folks with farms & plenty of resources can't be bothered to treat them like a real business."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/10/demand-and-supply/#keep-cal-maine-and-carry-on
Maybe changes in nutrition? Middle class and above will pay the tariffs for produce and take more weight loss drugs.
Squeezing farm labor supply and then raising tariffs waiting for some kind of boom is going to fail.
Govt: *invests millions in further oilseed production*
But it looks like this time he's bailing out agribusinesses his tariffs are going to hurt BEFORE the impact hits,
unlike with his China trade debacle his last term.
The guy who's been harping about corn for 7 decades AND has a fake farm that he only uses for subsidies wants more subsidy... I mean, no surprise there.