Fox "news" and Hannity will tell them its all a plot by the deep state/Obama/Hillary/Gays/PoC/godless commies/Mexican rapists etc

And the sheep will buy it over and over till the day they die under an overpass somewhere.

I happened to run across the linked story this morning and there was a related story about how the USDA bought surplus cheese back in the day. But even a bail-out wouldn't cover all the losses due to trump's trade war.

just one of the reasons the Farm Bill crashed.

And, he announced that just as they were starting to plant. Did they switch from soybeans to something else? Usually, they rotate w/another crop. All I've seen in fields is corn, which means the price of corn will be lower.

He doesn't realize how many ways this affects people when he makes these snap decisions, and the people heading the departments don't know from Jack what they are doing. Is this Wilbur Ross? I saw him the other day and he could hardly form a sentence.

It's not his fault. No matter what he does, it's not his fault. Somehow, some way, somewhere there's a libtard behind anything bad. Always.

is stop importing corn.

I've been trying to keep track of what's happening to farmers and searching for the unicorn who won't vote for trump again.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/eu-and-mexico-agree-new-free-trade-pact-1.3470042

I don't see it in this article, but one of the drivers for Mexico in signing this deal was to get away from near total dependence on the US for corn which is a staple of the Mexican diet.

The US was not very happy when this agreement was signed.

One of the reasons that Mexico is so dependent on US corn is that when NAFTA went in corn from the US could be sent to Mexico and sell much more cheaply than farms in Mexico could produce it.
This lead many farmers in Mexico to lose their farms. Many then emigrated to the US to find work. Thus the so-called "immigration crisis."

desperate there and coming here . ....for some ,...it's not for some American dream as much as it's for survival
So many in the US don't seem to get what was done to the Mexican corn industry with NAFTA or the influx of immigrants and corporations call the shots on imports there just like here with manufacturing so the cheap Iowa corn benefitted the bottom line just like China here has become the best choice for money makers

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/09/news/economy/nafta-farming-mexico-us-corn-jobs/index.html
"Before NAFTA, everybody here grew corn. People didn't make much money, but nobody went hungry," says Mendoza, 23, sharing common lore from her region. She was born just after NAFTA was signed.
As cheap American corn came pouring in from the border, it had a devastating effect on her family. Her father, Benancio Mendoza, couldn't compete and make a living wage selling corn. He had to give up and move to the United States looking for a job. He took up a job as a cook in Tennessee, saving up money to send home so his kids could attend school.

I know this doesn't make me look the best, but these Iowan Branch Trumpvidians who voted for that orange son of a bitch can go fornicate themselves. They allowed their urges to have a racist, Islamaphobic, homophobic pig in office override any good sense they had so they can fornicating well live with the consequences now.

You expressed quite well what I've been feeling about these low information, right-leaning slaves of corporate agriculture who are marching lock-step to the exhortations of Big Ag. How odd that 3 generations ago Iowa's rural farmers were once a fiercely independent, powerful progressive voice and a political force to be reckoned with.

Farm Bureau, Pork Producers Assoc., Cattleman's Assoc., Soybean Assoc., Corn Growers Assoc. (hell, toss in the NRA)--all their "men's clubs" (corporate tools) are conservative organs coaxing them to the polls to vote red and ensure their own self-destruction, children, grandchildren, and communities.