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SWBTATTReg

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3. There are better ways to negotiate then smacking around your customers and/or

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 01:29 PM

Jul 2018

trading partners. I'm sure that there are many providers willing and eager to step in and sell instead of the US...leaving our farmers on the edge of potential disaster and seriously disrupting markets.

This is to hit all of us in the pocket by inflating cost of just about everything...

I hope someone is watching the inflation factor starting when rump took office and then going forward on a month by month basis to track how costly rump is going to be for all of us (let alone bankruptcy, being that rump is such an expert at already).

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Farm group: There's 'a lot of anxiety' over Trump tariffs [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2018 OP

When rural Americans actually see the income loss AND escalating cost... beachbum bob Jul 2018 #1

That linkage will be in the new Farm Bailout Bill. Wellstone ruled Jul 2018 #4

Depends if get thru the senate... beachbum bob Jul 2018 #8

Best guess is ,Mitch has already greased the skids with a Wellstone ruled Jul 2018 #18

Putting farmers on a welfare system designed for them sounds humiliating eleny Jul 2018 #14

Ike did it with the Benson Soil Bank Legislation. Wellstone ruled Jul 2018 #19

Though still also anxiously waiting to vote Trump loyalists into office Freethinker65 Jul 2018 #2

There are better ways to negotiate then smacking around your customers and/or SWBTATTReg Jul 2018 #3

If I am a US farmer, COOL should help me as it identifies product as processed in America Justice Jul 2018 #5

US ranchers love COOL, packers hate it Recursion Jul 2018 #16

So creep joannie Ernst sen from ia says it's going to cost farmers in ia alone 634 mil and Thekaspervote Jul 2018 #6

China (and others) will be buying soybeans from South America and Canada. PearliePoo2 Jul 2018 #7

I am sure they will find a Democrat to blame exboyfil Jul 2018 #9

Unfortunately, you are not wrong. Caliman73 Jul 2018 #13

Farmersonly.con GeorgeGist Jul 2018 #10

But their vote was only supposed to ruin OTHER people's lives! Squinch Jul 2018 #11

Farmers...government welfare recipients since the Great Depression. Xolodno Jul 2018 #12

i heard an interview with a couple ranchers in SE Oregon on OPB this morning 0rganism Jul 2018 #15

That last paragraph, a thousand times Recursion Jul 2018 #17