South Dakota farmers: Trade deals not bailouts

 

Headline:  South Dakota Searchlight, 12/11/2025

Meghan O'Brien reports:

Farmers across the country may soon receive a share of a $12 billion farm aid package, as promised by President Donald Trump earlier this week. Some South Dakota farmers say it’s not the change they want to see. 

“I would rather have trade deals than bailouts,” said Michael Miller, a farmer from Freeman. [emphasis added]

It’s a sentiment many other farmers echoed at an annual meeting Wednesday for the South Dakota Farmers Union. Trump’s “bridge payments” are meant to help farmers who struggled to sell crops during tariff-related market disruptions, such as China’s temporary boycott of U.S. soybean purchases.

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