US farmers are being squeezed - and it's testing their deep loyalty to Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On a scorchingly hot day in the American Midwest, Tim Maxwell is voicing his fears about the future of farming.

The 65-year-old has worked the fields since he was a teenager. He now owns a grain and hog farm near Moscow, Iowa - but he's unsure about its prospects.

"I'm in a little bit of a worried place," says Mr Maxwell, who wears a baseball cap bearing the logo of a corn company.

He is concerned that American farmers aren't able to sell their crops to international markets in the way they could in previous years, in part because of the fallout from President Trump's tariffs.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-farmers-being-squeezed-testing-233651637.html

[RockRaven]

1. Well, 4/5 of them voted for getting squeezed.

What did they expect?

[sakabatou]

2. Do we still have faces left for the leopards?

[EarthFirst]

3. I'm curious to know...

…how many of these farmers know that JD Vance is personally invested in venture capital startups that offer predatory buyouts of farms in distress.

I’m willing to bet not many…

[lamp_shade]

4. Trump doesn't care. Period.

[durablend]

5. They're never not voting for Republicans

So IDK about this "deep loyalty to Trump"

[Lancero]

6. Didn't Trump have a message for farmers some months back, about getting ready to grow food for Amerikkka?

Seems like they had plenty of plenty of warning for what was coming, why didn't the spent that time pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?