Top headline: Fresh Fruit Portal, 11/7/2024
Bottom headline: Des Moines Register, 5/5/2026
Donnelle Eller reports:
U.S. farmers already were struggling with high production costs and low prices when President Donald Trump placed tariffs on the country’s largest trade partners last year, cutting exports of commodities like soybeans and leaving farmers with record-size crops they struggled to sell profitably.
Now his administration is sending $12 billion to farmers to help offset the tariffs' impact and provide a bridge to beefier government safety net supports later this year. Congressional leaders are discussing sending $15 billion more to farmers to compensate for the war with Iran driving farm fertilizer and fuel prices higher.
Even with aid, many U.S. farmers are haunted by the prospect of unsustainable debt. Nationally, farm bankruptcies were 44% higher last year than in 2024, and in Iowa, they more than doubled.
2026
This is what happens when theres no strategic plan for an I-feel-it-in-my-bones War of Whimsy (fucking over farmers again edition). (3/30)
This is what happens when theres no strategic plan for an I-feel-it-in-my-bones War of Whimsy (fucking over farmers again edition). (3/30)
Trump visits Iowa, causing farmers there to reflect on how badly he fucked them over in 2025. (1/28)
2025
Trump tariffs and trade war are pushing more Iowa farmers into bankruptcy... and thoughts of suicide. (11/21)
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