Trump policies spark warnings of impending disaster: ‘Going to be fewer farmers’
https://www.rawstory.com/farmers-2676904156/
Trump policies spark warnings of impending disaster: ‘Going to be fewer farmers’
https://www.rawstory.com/farmers-2676904156/
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>President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has already hit Americans at the gas pump, but farmers told Axios that a potentially more devastating impact is still coming – and soon.
>“There’s going to be fewer farmers next year than this year,” said Mark Mueller, an Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, speaking with Axios for its report published on Saturday.
>Trump’s Feb. 28 authorization of the U.S. war against Iran prompted the Middle East nation to immediately close traffic for U.S.-aligned vessels to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil historically flowed. While the subsequent rise in fuel costs has impacted farmers greatly, so too has the disruption to fertilizer trade, more than 20% of which moves through the strait.
Farmers voted to put themselves out of business. Love that for them.
Vote for a well-documented, lifelong conman, gonna get conned
Wow…who could *possibly* have predicted this?
Oh, right, *literally* everyone with an IQ above room temperature.
But it’s nationalistic to lose your farm for Trump. /s
This is how ridiculous this has become.
Created chaos by Trump, opportunities for the Chinese. Such winning!
More factory farms. More chemicals in food.
Good job America for electing a moron as president.
Hey farmers, racism is expensive. Many of your laborers didn’t show up, and tariffs are the icing on the cake. Have the life you voted for.
Farmers will see this and say “Trump is doing everything he can to fix Biden’s mess, why would Biden do this??”
They just gotta take the initiative and pull themselves up by their bootstraps and they’ll be fine.
It’s a real shame that no one warned them every single day, for nearly a decade.
While I don’t feel sorry for the farmers that FAFO, I’m concerned that the fewer the farmers the less food. Also, Trump agreeing to sell farm land go the Chinese, where do you think that food will go. We are heading to a food crisis faster than people think.
Oh well. Sorry farmers, that just means more company farms.
No worries, the Chinese are coming to buy them up. Grow their own damn beans!
Just another reason why the cost of food will continue to rise. We once again have reason to thank his supporters for voting for him.
Farm bankruptcies are at an all time high.
Many of which have been in families for generations. Which is sad.
But now watch how much more costly your groceries will cost.
Trump will of course try to blame the higher prices on Biden or Obama.
US farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Now trump’s recent trip to China re-allowed Chinese ownership of American land, including farms.
Trump’s art of the deal on display. Trump has always been a moron and criminal. The farmers are just learning this lesson the hard way instead of doing their research years ago.
Well they want the Chinese and the big farming corps to own them all. So of course they made sure this would ruin them. JD is also part of a group that buys them out. This helps them in many ways, you got fooled if you thought they didn’t want to buy everything you own for cheap.
That’s what they wanted.
Don’t worry about the farmland. The little farmers who voted themselves out of existence are being bought up by larger agribusinesses. That concentration, who will only end up answering to the tip top of government (whom they will be friends with), is what should be concerning.
TrumpStein said China can buy them. There goes our food supply.
“The farmers are going to go through some things” — DJT probably
How’s that going to work out in the long term?
They will still vote MAGA this fall, next year, the year after that, the year after that, etc.