Red state farmers beg for Socialist handouts

[ThisIsMe]

The farmers tried to warn him.

Many people tried to warn him.

You make it sound like this all came about with trump. Farmers have been getting subsidies long before trump came into the picture.

 

[MarathonMike]

It isn't just Arkansas either. Farmers all over the country are counting on government subsidies to pay their bills this year and for the forseeable future as long as Trump's tariffs continue to threaten to put them out of business.
The thing is, don't they know that these government bailouts are the very definition of the "Socialism" that they (red states) thought they were voting against last year?
Maybe for Republican voters (so called) "socialistic" programs are only "bad" or "evil" when OTHER people depend on them...but when THEY need a bit of government handout...not so much?

The Agricultural Council of Arkansas wrote a letter Aug. 18 to President Trump raising the "great sense of urgency" about economic conditions facing farmers and asking for "immediate assistance in delivering much-needed and meaningful support to help farmers with the pressures they face due to high input costs and depressed commodity prices."

The council cited that Arkansas farmers are projected to see a $1.145 billion shortfall for 2025, with crop expenses exceeding crop receipts.

"Without additional assistance, we fear that many family farm operations in Arkansas will be forced to shutter their operations as credit windows close."

Farmers have received some aid for prior year losses. More than 12,000 Arkansas farmers have collected payments under the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP). Arkansas producers have received another $62.5 million under the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP).

Arkansas Farmers Warn of Crisis as Crop Prices Fall; Call for Ad Hoc Aid

A gathering of between 400 and 500 farmers from northeast Arkansas underscored that even as USDA projects overall net farm income to rise this year, income for crop farmers is actually projected to fall. Nationally, cash receipts for crops are projected to fall for the third straight year, USDA...

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You can always tell that a thread is going to be Liberal crap when it starts "Red State blah blah blah......"

 

[Concerned American]

How is it Trumps tariffs when the started when democrats raised the prices of fertilizer and all products derived from oil? Three years of falling prices, no mention of tariffs. democrats are scumbags. The link states
projected to fall for the third straight year, USDA reported

Along with Obama allowing the world's largest pork producer to be bought by the Chinese.

 

[justoffal]

It isn't just Arkansas either. Farmers all over the country are counting on government subsidies to pay their bills this year and for the forseeable future as long as Trump's tariffs continue to threaten to put them out of business.
The thing is, don't they know that these government bailouts are the very definition of the "Socialism" that they (red states) thought they were voting against last year?
Maybe for Republican voters (so called) "socialistic" programs are only "bad" or "evil" when OTHER people depend on them...but when THEY need a bit of government handout...not so much?

The Agricultural Council of Arkansas wrote a letter Aug. 18 to President Trump raising the "great sense of urgency" about economic conditions facing farmers and asking for "immediate assistance in delivering much-needed and meaningful support to help farmers with the pressures they face due to high input costs and depressed commodity prices."

The council cited that Arkansas farmers are projected to see a $1.145 billion shortfall for 2025, with crop expenses exceeding crop receipts.

"Without additional assistance, we fear that many family farm operations in Arkansas will be forced to shutter their operations as credit windows close."

Farmers have received some aid for prior year losses. More than 12,000 Arkansas farmers have collected payments under the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP). Arkansas producers have received another $62.5 million under the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP).

Arkansas Farmers Warn of Crisis as Crop Prices Fall; Call for Ad Hoc Aid

A gathering of between 400 and 500 farmers from northeast Arkansas underscored that even as USDA projects overall net farm income to rise this year, income for crop farmers is actually projected to fall. Nationally, cash receipts for crops are projected to fall for the third straight year, USDA...

www.dtnpf.com