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'I've Never Seen Anything Like It': Trump Policies Leave US Farmers in Dire Straits
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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78% of top farming counties voted for Trump and his clearly defined policies less than a year ago, so I fail to understand the complaints.
If they wanted cheap migrant farm labor and global markets to buy their goods, they should have supported another candidate for President loudly and overwhelmingly.
As a result, farmers can raise what they pay to entice American labor and sell their soybeans cheaper domestically. If they didn't do the math to determine if their politics were profitable, they can relinquish the businesses they mismanaged, and better people/companies can take over the land or it can return to nature.
Cheap healthy plant protein, more intelligent replacement farmers, and/or less factory farming dumping nitrates in the Gulf seems like a win for everyone but those who willingly chose this path.
Domestic demand for soybeans seems pretty scant. And usually it's Asian communities that use it for tofu, or soybean drinks
Supply has increased and prices have fallen. Demand should be induced. The first likely customers will be ultra processed food manufacturers as an ingredient, but let's see if Americans have the neuroplasticity to adapt.
If they can't, they can stop whining about rising food prices and go hungry. They might even have to have to be normal weights.
Farmers are generally some of the most intelligent and practical people, excellent at business.
Sadly they let their emotions take over for some reason and lost all mental capacity when it comes to politics.
They overwhelmingly voted to cut their revenue while increasing their costs and are now crying for a government bailout. These actions are the very definition of being bad at business. Lacking the reasoning to understand that deporting illegal immigrants when you rely on their labor also indicates they are of below average intelligence, a fact backed up by IQ studies of professions.