In 2019, record rainfall turned fields to sludge and made it impossible to plant corn and soybeans until long after the typical window had passed. Trump’s long-running trade war cut off farmers’ access to China’s enormous market. washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
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Why? The farm bailout.
Without government assistance, U.S. farm income would have fallen about $5B from its already-low 2018 level. So the $14.5 billion in bailout funding announced so far
Most farmers benefited from the bailout, Belasco said, but because bailout money is distributed based on acreage and not farmer’s need
We need to stop giving them money now!