As the trade war limps along exactly as you’d expect a policy launched by a failed casino owner would, real people are taking it on the chin. One of those folks is a farmer from a reliably red state that voted for Trump by a more than 2-to-1 margin. Yahoo! Finance: “This trade thing is what’s…
Category: soybeans
Farmers are reportedly running out of patience with Trump and his trade war
I wouldn’t be so sure about farm country coming out in droves for Donald J. Trump in 2020. Many farmers wanted Trump to get tough on China, but the guy who mysteriously lost money running casinos surprisingly has no idea what he’s doing when it comes to complex trade agreements. And farmers are increasingly desperate and…
Sounds Like Vice President of American Soybean Association Has a Bad Case of Gas Over Trump Tariffs.
It will still take a lot of damage before farmers who voted for Trump to think — not publicly admit — that they bet the farm and lost, but the vice president of the American Soybean Association appears to have stopped drinking the Kool Aid when it comes to Trump’s tariffs and his $12 billion dollar aid…
Too Bad Trump's Tariffs Did Not Come Sooner.
You know that Trump voting farmers were mule headed, and I think the economic pain from Trump’s trade war needed to happen sooner to dappen the enthusiasm for Trump on the farm. President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with China, Mexico and Canada are already eroding the value of American agricultural production, with soybean growers alone…