Americans farmers are looking at dismal time….tariffs and loss of business is straining their very existence….and the government is really not stepping up to help protect our struggling farmers.
Times are tough for many Americans and even worse for the farmers that we depend on for our food supply.
A quick look at recent ‘deals’…..
“I thought it would be easier by now.” So says Jacob Thomas of the 10 years he and wife Jennifer have spent farming land in northeast Kansas. Their 70-year-old family farm—spanning 15 acres of vegetables and over 500 acres for hay and livestock—relies in part on farmers markets and federal programs to stay afloat. This year, the couple absorbed an $8,000 loss—a 10% hit to them—after the Trump administration cut $1 billion from a pair of federal programs that routed locally grown and raised produce and meat to schools and food banks. A separate $750,000 federal agriculture grant they planned to use to build a warehouse that would allow them to expand their business was paused.
Though the grant was later reinstated, construction costs have since gone up and the building timeline has changed, putting the project “in limbo,” writes Annie Gowen for the Washington Post. Gowen touches on the underlying political tension: Many in this Republican-leaning area voted for Trump and are feeling frustrated by the administration’s moves and, in the case of Thomas, let down by their own local congressmen.
“Historically, if you got a government contract, we’re golden, because the government always pays,” Jacob said. “For the first time in my life, I don’t trust the government is going to follow through on their word.” The family’s woes are spilling out of the financial realm: Gowen notes Jacob started treatment for depression and anxiety last fall; “financial insecurity makes my depression worse,” he says. Jennifer now avoids discussing finances in front of their two young daughters.
I recall back in the day when Donny pledged to help the American farmer…..so fare I have not seen any help on the horizon…..
Donald Trump may have won the votes of the US’s most farming-dependent counties by an average of 78% in the 2024 election. But the moves made by his administration in the past few months – imposing steep tariffs, immigration policies that target the migrant labor farmers rely on, and canceling a wide range of USDA programs – have left many farmers reeling.
“The policies of the Trump administration are wreaking havoc on family farmers. It’s been terrible,” said John Bartman, a row crop farmer in Illinois. Bartman is owed thousands of dollars for sustainable practices he implemented on his row crop operation as part of the USDA’s Climate-Smart program.
And he’s not the only one. Other farmers across the country are reporting that the Trump administration’s policies have destroyed their markets by ending programs that help farmers sell their produce to local schools and food banks; implementing draconian immigration policies that destabilize the farm labor pool; and generally creating volatility that makes it hard for farmers to plan ahead.
(check it out…..)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/trump-farmers-policy
Tariffs and loss of agriculture is just what some greedy Fat Cats are counting on….
Do we turn our backs on American farmers?
The administration has.
How can any farmer still support this lying scumbag?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Not only has Trump cheated them out of the funding they expect, that money is for food that goes to schools and other meal assistance programs for the poor…he wipes out the farmers and starves the people he is supposed to govern…it goes on and on and on…
Sounds like he is following a playbook to the max chuq
And those farmers, all Trump supporters, now say they didn’t know he was going to do this to them – they just assumed he’d throw out the “others”….well, his evil ways went far deeper than just the race card
Trusting a known liar will get you burnt every time chuq
When you have a mindset that separates “others” from “our kind” I’d say they get what they deserve…
That’s a great pint…Trump continues to dehumanize people so it’s easier to justify the reprehensible actions against them.
Did they mostly vote for Trump? I don’t know for sure, but I’m willing to bet they did.
Sorry, but you got what you wished for, when you only thought it would hurt ‘the other guy’ and the people of colour. No tears shed from me.
Best wishes, Pete.
I am not crying either….this is what you get when the best you can do is vote not the other guy….moronic and that can be deadly chuq
They voted for Trump because he was male, white, and familiar. His opponent was a younger woman, black, and not well known. Many people had no idea who she was, several, apparently, thought she was the former president (and that one scares me)…so basically he won the “Familiar face” vote. Sadly.
Thanx for the link and I appreciate your visit….please drop b y anytime. chuq
Everything Trump does is related to the pocketbook. He has absolutely NO –repeat, NO– concern for –or how– his actions affect real people.
He never has….he only looks for the glitz that will make him the center of attention regardless who it hurts. chuq
He gives rich people a bad name, just by existing. He always seems the worst kind of wealthy, privileged, rude crude and ugly. In a book I read years ago there was a chapter involving a nasty-rich woman, as it was put, who thought nothing of putting her cigarette out in the butter server. When I look at Trump, this is the kind of rich I see. Utterly no regard for anyone but him.
We knew that about him yet we elected him….what does that say about us? chuq
Farmers have lived high on the government hog long enough with all the subsidies and so on and so forth….then they send lots of their production to foreign countries…I would love to see American Farmers feeding Americans exclusively.
I agree but sadly we use to live in a global market….that is going down the toilet and we will be eating dirt before long. chuq