Any farmers or growers here?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. My family owns some farmland in Nebraska.

We don't live there, but we have a crop share arrangement with a very good farmer who manages it. It's a remarkably complex (and risky) business - you have to know a lot about botany, weather, agronomy, soils, how to forward-contract your crops, etc. If you actually do the work on the farm you also have to be able to repair just about anything. And working with farm machinery can be really dangerous. I have a lot of respect for farmers.

Unfortunately a lot of farmers in the midwest are (or were) Trump voters, and they might come to regret that. It looks like his proposed budget would screw them, too, by cutting or eliminating support for crop insurance (essential in areas that get strong summer thunderstorms and hail, which can seriously damage or even destroy a whole crop when it's too late to replant) and by gutting the Department of Agriculture, which does valuable scientific research on plant pests and diseases.