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Ramrouser said:
Trump will PROTECT SD soybean farmers.
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Yes, this is a great example of how Trump is turning the entire government/economy into a protection racket. The only thing soybean farmers need protection from is Trump's policies. He may as well be walking down the street throwing bricks through windows and offering to "protect" the business from having it happen again (for a fee, of course).
 
Wheels81 said:
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Talked to a friend in the tobacco biz and he told me that China had placed orders earlier in the year but crickets now. Said he has farmers taking a loss but due to debt/bills and are having to sell this year’s crops for $2 p/pound(when I was on the market in 1978 in Wiltson it was @$1.85 per/pound) and losing money but hoping to keep the farm by paying for the expenses at break even or less! Said every farmer he’s been dealing with are either mad or sad.
 
SmilingJack said:
Talked to a friend in the tobacco biz and he told me that China had placed orders earlier in the year but crickets now. Said he has farmers taking a loss but due to debt/bills and are having to sell this year’s crops for $2 p/pound(when I was on the market in 1978 in Wiltson it was @$1.85 per/pound) and losing money but hoping to keep the farm by paying for the expenses at break even or less! Said every farmer he’s been dealing with are either mad or sad.
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Mad or sad…….

Will still vote GOP.
 
SmilingJack said:
Talked to a friend in the tobacco biz and he told me that China had placed orders earlier in the year but crickets now. Said he has farmers taking a loss but due to debt/bills and are having to sell this year’s crops for $2 p/pound(when I was on the market in 1978 in Wiltson it was @$1.85 per/pound) and losing money but hoping to keep the farm by paying for the expenses at break even or less! Said every farmer he’s been dealing with are either mad or sad.
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They will all vote Pube next election
Cause Transgeders or something
 
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lawtig02 said:
Not sure why the farmers are worried. If they get hammered, the Pubs in Congress will just approve billions in new subsidies to bail them out, which will have the effect of transferring even more wealth from blue states to red states.
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Or Socialism, which they claim to hate. Which makes them welfare queens, which they also claim to hate. I've read that in Trump's first term his trade wars with China drove many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy even then, and Republicans bailed them out to the point that farm payments rose from $11 billion in 2017 (Trump's first year as POTUS) to $32 billion by start of 2020. In 2020 Congress approved another $35 billion in taxpayer payouts to farmers, a record, and as a result 2020 ended up being the 5th-most profitable year for farmers since 1975 - but nearly all of the profit came from taxpayers, not from farmers actually making a profit on their products.

So yeah, based on Trump 1.0, in Trump 2.0 Republicans will no doubt spend lavishly to keep farmers happy, and will send them lots of government handouts. Which, of course, these same farmers hate to see anyone else getting, as that would be socialism. Which they claim to hate. Or maybe not.
 
heelinhell said:
www.rawstory.com

'Screwed up': 3-time Trump voter hammers president as policies cripple his farm

Farmers are losing patience with the labor crisis caused by President Donald Trump's immigration policies.House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson (R-PA) is planning to introduce legislation he says will ease a major shortage in workers that's followed Trump's immigration crackdown, but farmers in...
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"Farmers are losing patience" with Trump. LOL. They would crawl over broken glass to vote for him for a fourth time if they could.
 
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