A bailout for farmers caught in Trump's trade war is already being discussed. 'If we don't get something, it will be qui

[Eugene]

Source: Fortune

A bailout for farmers caught in Trump’s trade war is already being discussed. ‘If we don’t get something, it will be quite a disaster’

Stuart Dyos
Sun, April 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM EDT 4 min read

• Trump administration officials and lawmakers are considering aid for farmers as retaliation looms against U.S. tariffs. China and Canada have already levied duties on some of the top U.S. agricultural exports. During Trump's first term, farmers got $23 billion after an earlier round of tariffs.

Trump administration officials and lawmakers have begun exploring a relief package for U.S. farmers as agricultural trade groups warn of economic repercussions from tariffs.

That’s as retaliation against President Donald Trump’s sweeping import taxes could harm U.S. exports of farm products.

“We are setting up the infrastructure that if, in fact, we have some economic consequences in the short term to our farmers and perhaps our ranchers, that we will have programs in place to solve for that,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters last week.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/bailout-farmers-caught-trump-trade-171113348.html

[CrispyQ]

1. Bailouts for farmers but no one else?

What happens when all the fired fed workers apply for unemployment? What a clusterfuck.

[UpInArms]

3. F that shit

Farmers are stoopid

They are monoculture parasites

Corn and soybeans …

It is not food, other than for cattle

It has been massively subsidized for no other reason other than for export

This maladminstration has destroyed that market

[RandySF]

2. FAFO

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. They have to make decisions to buy seed and plant NOW. . . . . nt

[Norrrm]

5. Socialism/bailouts for the favored few.

[hatrack]

6. "Farmers" like ADM, Cargill, US Sugar, Tyson, Bunge, Smithfield . . .