I detailed last week how many Trump-supporting farmers are becoming increasingly desperate as the mass deportation regime they voted for comes for their workers and their bottom lines, but that is just one side of the economic double whammy that Trump is currently applying to some of his most fervent supporters. Soybeans may sound like small potatoes, but they are …
Read More »MAGNOLIA, Ky. (AP) — The leafy soybean plants reach Caleb Ragland’s thighs and are ripe for harvest, but the Kentucky farmer is deeply worried. He doesn’t know where he and others like him will sell their crop because China has stopped buying. Beijing, which traditionally has snapped up at least a quarter of all soybeans grown in the U.S., is …
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President Donald Trump counts U.S. farmers as one of his most loyal constituencies, but the administration’s recent move to expand economic support for Argentina has drawn the ire of the agriculture industry. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on social media on Wednesday that he and Trump spoke at length with Argentina president Javier Milei about plants to financially support Argentina …
Read More »Trump Says He Wants to Give Aid to Struggling Farmers The New York Times Trump says he’ll use tariff revenue to bail out farmers Politico Trump suggests farmer bailout coming from tariff money Axios Trump says US will distribute aid to farmers until tariffs kick in to their benefit Reuters Trump Says Tariff Revenue Will Fund Relief for US Farmers Bloomberg.com Source link
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President Donald Trump counts U.S. farmers as one of his most loyal constituencies, but the administration’s recent move to expand economic support for Argentina has drawn the ire of the agriculture industry. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on social media on Wednesday that he and Trump spoke at length with Argentina president Javier Milei about plants to financially support Argentina …
Read More »Trump says he’ll use tariff revenue to bail out farmers Politico Trump suggests farmer bailout coming from tariff money Axios Trump Admits Farmers Are Getting Screwed By His Tariffs The Daily Beast Trump Says He Wants to Give Aid to Struggling Farmers The New York Times Trump Says Tariff Revenue Will Fund Relief for US Farmers Bloomberg.com Source link
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Carver, Massachusetts — For Jarrod Rhodes, a fourth-generation cranberry farmer in Carver, Massachusetts, a 30-acre state project is taking a portion of his family’s land back in time. “In 10 years, I hope it looks like a natural swamp,” Rhodes told CBS News of the project’s outcome. “And just, kind of, everything that it may have looked like, you know, …
Read More »The U.S. helped Argentina, then Argentine farmers made a deal with China Axios Exclusive: China buys Argentine soybeans after tax drop, leaving US farmers sidelined Reuters China Buys More Argentine Soybeans as Tax Relief Spurs Trade Bloomberg.com China expands Argentina soybean buying to 20 cargoes, traders say Yahoo Finance Argentina’s temporary tax suspension sparks fire sale of grain exports Brownfield Ag News Source link
Read More »The World’s No. 3 Soybean Producer Cuts Export Taxes, What U.S. Farmers Need to Know AgWeb Milei Dangles Big Tax Break for Exporters in Stealth Devaluation Bloomberg.com Argentina cuts grains export duties to zero to bring in dollars Buenos Aires Herald Grain markets slide on Argentina export tax suspension Brownfield Ag News Argentina suspends agro-export taxes to scoop up dollars Reuters Source link
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It was four decades ago that Bob Dylan took the stage and mused about the need to support American farmers. “I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in Africa,” he said during a performance at Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert to raise relief funds for famine in Ethiopia, “maybe they can just take a …
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