GET ME REWRITE: Trump economy is a shitstorm for farm implement manufacturers

 

Headline:  Manufacturing Dive, 2/24/2026

Nathan Owens treports:

Over the past year, Deere and other tractor makers have switched suppliers, increased prices and taken other actions to mitigate the effects of tariffs under IEEPA and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. The latter authority was unaffected by the court’s decision. Shortly after, Trump moved to enact 10% tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 for a period of 150 days.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'shitstorm' as in a wildly chaotic and unmanageable situation, controversy, or sequence of events, occurred in 1948

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. automation
2. Cornhusker
3. defund
4. gimmickry
5. line dance
6. privatize
7. supply chain

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