Trump’s tariffs war is sparking uncertainty for North Carolina farmers

[Zincwarrior]

Farmers ate already taking losses from Trump Tariffs. Will they remain MAGA supporters USMB?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/north-carolina-farmers-trump-tariffs-us-exports/

FAIRVIEW, N.C. — For John Ashe, the start of growing season is always a math problem, a complex calculus of educated guesses as he tries to extract every cent from his farm in Reidsville, near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

The 57-year-old has been farming all his life. Every year, he mulls changes recommended by the tobacco companies, considers competition from Brazilian soybean farmers and ponders how much labor he needs to hire to eke out enough profit to keep everything going.

But this year, his biggest numbers challenge has been the tariff policies of President Donald Trump.
“It’s always been a guessing game here on the farm, but I think it’s more of a guess now than it’s ever been in my lifetime,” Ashe said on Wednesday, as he alternated between trimming tobacco seedlings in his greenhouse and checking his phone for tariff updates. The plants will go in the ground this month, but his anxieties center on his soon-to-be-sown crop of soybeans. Most years, a large portion of his harvest would be exported to China, which is the top target in an escalating trade war started by the president.

 

[Zafira Cherry]

Farmers ate already taking losses from Trump Tariffs. Will they remain MAGA supporters USMB?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/north-carolina-farmers-trump-tariffs-us-exports/

FAIRVIEW, N.C. — For John Ashe, the start of growing season is always a math problem, a complex calculus of educated guesses as he tries to extract every cent from his farm in Reidsville, near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

The 57-year-old has been farming all his life. Every year, he mulls changes recommended by the tobacco companies, considers competition from Brazilian soybean farmers and ponders how much labor he needs to hire to eke out enough profit to keep everything going.

But this year, his biggest numbers challenge has been the tariff policies of President Donald Trump.
“It’s always been a guessing game here on the farm, but I think it’s more of a guess now than it’s ever been in my lifetime,” Ashe said on Wednesday, as he alternated between trimming tobacco seedlings in his greenhouse and checking his phone for tariff updates. The plants will go in the ground this month, but his anxieties center on his soon-to-be-sown crop of soybeans. Most years, a large portion of his harvest would be exported to China, which is the top target in an escalating trade war started by the president.

Trump had to bail out the farmers last time he pulled this stunt. Imagine that
Will DOGE approve of a bailout?

Of course they will remain Trump supporters, they are getting paid

 

[shockedcanadian]

Better than their kids being sent to war isn't it?

There are always policy decisions that disrupt and cause changes. Farmers will be fine, America will be making deals and expecting these nations to keep these deals, unlike China who have single handedly decimated the global trading world order and rendered WTO feckless, toothless and compromised.

The West needs to win. I will do my part as best I can with my limited reach.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Farmers ate already taking losses from Trump Tariffs. Will they remain MAGA supporters USMB?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/north-carolina-farmers-trump-tariffs-us-exports/

FAIRVIEW, N.C. — For John Ashe, the start of growing season is always a math problem, a complex calculus of educated guesses as he tries to extract every cent from his farm in Reidsville, near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

The 57-year-old has been farming all his life. Every year, he mulls changes recommended by the tobacco companies, considers competition from Brazilian soybean farmers and ponders how much labor he needs to hire to eke out enough profit to keep everything going.

But this year, his biggest numbers challenge has been the tariff policies of President Donald Trump.
“It’s always been a guessing game here on the farm, but I think it’s more of a guess now than it’s ever been in my lifetime,” Ashe said on Wednesday, as he alternated between trimming tobacco seedlings in his greenhouse and checking his phone for tariff updates. The plants will go in the ground this month, but his anxieties center on his soon-to-be-sown crop of soybeans. Most years, a large portion of his harvest would be exported to China, which is the top target in an escalating trade war started by the president.

You think China will not buy soybeans from our farmers because of a tariff? What will they do when starvation sets in on their population? By the time his crop is harvested, there may not be any tariffs if China gets their act together.

 

[Crepitus]

Farmers ate already taking losses from Trump Tariffs. Will they remain MAGA supporters USMB?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/north-carolina-farmers-trump-tariffs-us-exports/

FAIRVIEW, N.C. — For John Ashe, the start of growing season is always a math problem, a complex calculus of educated guesses as he tries to extract every cent from his farm in Reidsville, near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

The 57-year-old has been farming all his life. Every year, he mulls changes recommended by the tobacco companies, considers competition from Brazilian soybean farmers and ponders how much labor he needs to hire to eke out enough profit to keep everything going.

But this year, his biggest numbers challenge has been the tariff policies of President Donald Trump.
“It’s always been a guessing game here on the farm, but I think it’s more of a guess now than it’s ever been in my lifetime,” Ashe said on Wednesday, as he alternated between trimming tobacco seedlings in his greenhouse and checking his phone for tariff updates. The plants will go in the ground this month, but his anxieties center on his soon-to-be-sown crop of soybeans. Most years, a large portion of his harvest would be exported to China, which is the top target in an escalating trade war started by the president.

Kansans too. They grow a butt-load of soybeans here.

 

[1srelluc]

I wonder how much their current .gov subsidies figure into their planning?

 

[Mack Brazile]

Fuck em eat crow