The American farming industry is getting hammered

[Pluvious]

It's not just the short term, while The Stable Genius flails at mastering the complexities and nuances of international trade, its future is being sabotaged.

We can't be trusted as a trade partner; other sources from other countries are stepping in with alacrity.

This can't be undone now, these self-inflicted wounds aren't just deep cuts, but bone breaking.

Putin and Murdoch must be so proud of the monster they created and cursed us with.

[SamKnause]

1. The moral of the story is small farm owners shouldn't have voted for Trump.

They should have learned this lesson in 2016.

It is apparent they didn't.

Suck it up snowflakes.

You really owned the libs.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. No one should have voted for him. ...

And not all small town farmers did. That's a myth, a myth that needs to be retired.

The millionaire farmers are more likely to have identified with him than not.

Almost every single small farmer that I know, including me, is a Democrat. Some are unaffiliated voters and didn't vote.

That mythical notion is disinformation when there's knowledge it's not true and it keeps getting shared.

Why some continue to kick someone else who's already down, is a mystery to me here.

[MiHale]

6. Almost every farm by me had 'Farmers for Trump' signs...

Northern lower Michigan. Some are still up or the flags are. We’ll see how it holds on throughout the summer.
They may go against twump but will never (?) shed the red.

[Dr. Shepper]

11. Farmers where I'm at were and are all

In for Trump. Just went to an ag thing where all their woes were still being blamed on Biden and regulations.

[phylny]

16. Same here in rural Virgins.

Tons of Trump signs, Trump painted on hay bales, Trump flags.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

18. Same here

Northern Illinois

[republianmushroom]

51. Same here in Northern California.

[Norcal-jmendo]

56. We need to let more people know

We need to continue to move the needle of disapproval of the Orange Buffon and his circus and reach out to those that were deluded by his lies.
Maybe we should post videos of interviews of everyday people who were/are negatively impacted by the crazy policies of the fascist regime. If the media owned by the money grabbers won’t share the truth, collectively we need to share the truth with the masses!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

57. Welcome to DU. . . . . nt

[B.See]

58. Exactly. Just commented about this. The MSM

has taken to ignoring things that not that long ago, would've invoked outrage.

Welcome to DU

[marble falls]

59. I'll get right on it!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

64. Welcome to DU

[Irish_Dem]

19. Driving through farmland in the midwest, Trump/MAGA signs were everywhere.

The farmers were clearly MAGAS.
Today the signs have come down for the most part.
A few signs here and there.

We can see for ourselves that the famers are MAGAs.

[TearsOfDaClowned]

22. Another possibility... maybe he DOES believe he lost in 2020!

[yardwork]

32. This article in a local NC journal shows what we're up against.

Last edited Sun May 4, 2025, 02:24 PM - Edit history (1)

Since 2016, farmers and others living in NC's rural counties have gone hard right. Even more voted for Trump in 2024.

I know there are liberal and independent farmers, but the vast majority of people living in rural areas voted for Trump. We need to figure out how to get them back.

https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/republicans-democrats-rural-north-carolina-2024/

[littlemissmartypants]

38. Thank you. ...

That's precisely the point. Blaming farmers or anyone for that matter, is counterproductive. It certainly isn't wise to en masse insult them.

We need farmers. We need to change hearts and minds. Unfortunately, influence and persuasive actions are dependent upon a broad variety of factors. Plus, these individuals have to be motivated to change.

There are exactly only three types of motivation.
1. Internal, self motivation
2. External, motivation by incentives and
3. Punishment, being motivated by force.

I suspect anyone can guess which of the three I prefer.

yardwork, thanks so much for your reply.

❤️

[Dan]

53. Sad, you may be right but IMO, the farmers' geese are cooked.

Farms soon will be selling to the ultra-rich which was the plan.

MAGA Famers been played by Trump and all of you will have to pay the price.

[littlemissmartypants]

61. I'm not planning on selling anything!! ...

I'll rewild or plant trees and enjoy it until I die.

[Dan]

63. Best of luck.

I suspect HELP will not be coming until the Democratic Party gets control,
Or the GOP Congress decides that it is in their personal survival mode to impeach and Convict Donald Trump. And, that will not happen until the NATION as a whole determines that he is destroying all that is good about the nation.

Sadly, some of the MAGA will never see the evil of Trump nor accept the reality of what he has done.

[CanonRay]

55. Same in Oregon, as you drive past farms there are always GOP candidate signs.

[Gum Logger]

48. This must be the result of generations of inbreeding in a high arsenic environment.

It must suck to have a MAGAt brain

[Irish_Dem]

2. Farmers are strong Trump supporters.

Trump was supposed to screw over everyone else but not them.

[Emile]

7. I know Hoosier farmers voted for him.

[EnergizedLib]

26. The Indiana area I'm in

Is very rural, pretty red county, definitely some farming not far from me.

Congrats, you played yourselves.

[GiqueCee]

9. "Farmers are strong Trump supporters..."

... which says nothing good about their judgement or their character.
As many have already said, the only thing he ever did for them was to validate their own bigotry.
And as I have said, you cannot be a Trump supporter and a good person. They are mutually exclusive concepts.

[Aristus]

41. Driving through flyover farm country in Eastern Washington

on the way to Spokane, one can see farm fields on either side of I-90 stretching to the horizon. Nearly every field has gigantic pro-Trump signs that could probably be easily read from orbit.

I hope I never break down on one of these drives. I don’t want some Farmer Bill hayseed type jamming a shotgun up my ass.

[Dr. T]

3. "...these self-inflicted wounds aren't just deep cuts,

but bone breaking."

I'd compare them more to an amputation.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. That's okay.

Once the roving gangs start their quests for food... we will see how long this lasts.

Mainly because I would hope at some point the farmers would just do their thing and stop worrying about 'the market'. Then, we can just go to the farms and buy it directly.

Which, again, would be a major issue for the cities that are far away from any kind of agriculture.

I wonder how much longer people will allow the cities and suburbs to tell them they cannot grow their own food once this really starts to hit?

[Scrivener7]

8. Welp ... yes. That was inevitable.

[Dr. Shepper]

10. Most farmers will be with him to the very end

Religion, culture, anti-regulation fuels their loyalty to him.

[multigraincracker]

12. Cognitive dissonance

cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.[1] Being confronted by situations that challenge this dissonance may ultimately result in some change in their cognitions or actions to cause greater alignment between them so as to reduce this dissonance

It will be working on farmers as well as Catholic MAGA.

[elocs]

13. Looking at a red/blue map of WI it's difficult to understand how a Democrat could ever win here

it is so red, but most of the red is rural, farming while the blue is the more populated area like Milwaukee and Madison.

[mopinko]

14. is this ai?

i havent had much experience w ai video, but that’s what this looks like.
everything they’re saying may b true, but i’m not trusting it.

[progressoid]

45. Yep.

Expect more of it in the future.

[mopinko]

47. man. the least we cd do is make them label that shit.

not likely to happen. but the whole thing scares me.

[Botany]

15. Even after Krasnov uses tax money to pay the farmers for their losses they will still be screwed

The first time Krasnov lost the Chinese market for American sorghum of which 90% + was
already sold even before the seeds were planted and now they are going loose that market again
and our beef markets, hog markets, wheat markets, rice markets, and so on will be lost again
and this time getting those markets back is going to be much tougher.

FAFO Trump voting farmers. They knew he was a shit but they couldn’t vote for a black
woman and one of their own in Farmer Tim Walz. I hope they suffer. Fuck ‘em.

Looking for some face to eat.




They knew!

[Escape]

17. The small farming community in Kansas......

where I grew up, voted for Trump 87-13.. They are deeply religious, very racist and hooked on Fox News.

[Dr. T]

23. Fox News. My face impulsively cringes at the very mention.

I'm all for free speech, the 1st Amendment, and opposing viewpoints, but Fox News goes way beyond any of that. Our forefathers didn't see this coming.

I still remember some of the January 6th criminals using Fox News as the basis for an insanity defense.

[Bengus81]

25. Yep and NOW getting totally fucked over by Trump and his type of "religion"

I'm from Wichita,I've seen this go on for decades, and not just to farmers but all the Republicans in this State. But...they keep coming back for more,hence the book by Thomas Frank.

[Buddyzbuddy]

20. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. It is part of the plan.

Guess who is going to buy up all the farms for pennies on the dollar. Billionaires! Plus they get wells and water rights in addition to gov't subsidies to not plant crops. They will incorporate new cities and rezone. It won't take much money to buy the votes in low population areas. Not to mention how easily those voters have been proven to vote against their own best interests, time and time again.
They may be Republicans but I believe our farmers and ranchers have been the keystone to which America was able to build upon. I wish they hadn't been so gullible.
Way to own the Libs.

[BoRaGard]

37. Bingo! We have a winner (and lots of losers)

[TexLaProgressive]

21. The time from blaming is over.

Yes the idiot farmers voted for tRump, but the pain is going to be shared by all of us, those who voted for Harris, those who didn’t vot and those who voted for this fiasco. As far as agricultural exports demise, the damage has been done. The same is true for automotive, electronics and more. I was concerned about the loss of Canadian potash, who cares. Farmers will not be fertilizing fields because there is not reason to plant crops if there’s no market.

The djinn is out of the bottle, and the bottle is broke. It is not a benign spirit. It is a monster bent on destruction..

Find ways to resist. If that means joining forces with those who brought this on all of us, sso be it. We’re all in this together and finger pointing and wagging will not do.

States that allow recalls are one place to start. It doesn’t matter who signs the petitions - blue, red or I din’t care enough to vote. Just as tRump unified the Canadians and the Australians, it can happen here.

[Martin Eden]

27. Yes. The focus needs to be on repairing the damage, which of course means...

Relegating Trumpism to the dustbin of history.

This can't happen by excluding all the fools who enabled this catastrophe by voting against their own interests.

[travelingthrulife]

42. Well, then those farmers need to use that power to convince their elected officials to impeach Trump.

Until I see that happen, I have little to no sympathy for them. Almost all of them will politely whine and then tell us they would vote for Trump again.

[Martin Eden]

44. Sympathy for them is irrelevant.

The only thing that matters is the goal to save our democracy from fascism.

We don't have to like them or sympathize, but nothing is to be gained by rubbing their noses in their own stupidity.

[mwmisses4289]

28. I believe much of the finger pointing

is trying to get the idiots who scream of taking personal responsibility to take personal responsibility for what they have voted for. For whatever reason or reasons, they expect everyone else to be responsible, but not themselves.

[TexLaProgressive]

30. And how is that working? Show me results.

[travelingthrulife]

43. I hope you will show the results for your method as well. I am curious.

[TexLaProgressive]

54. I've never seen pointing out someone's errors to change them.

What actually does work is to seek consensus with them. There will be some areas, however small, that we will share. That give a foundation to build on.

Exploring the common strengthens and grows a real relationship. Next, is the hardest part, draw them to speak of their opinions on life and family. You listen carefully every now and then repeat back what they said that is troublesome. "You said (bla bla bla). Tell me more.

This does 2 things, shows you actually heard them and they are confirmed that they said it. By asking for more they have to leave opinion moving to why.

The whole point is to be non-confrontational. And in the early stages stay clear of the hottest topics. Save that for later. 1st build a relationship built on commonality.

[Autumn]

24. I think they hammered themselves.

They knew what he was going to do.

[Lovie777]

29. All that stealing, I mean defunding from the federal government .....................

agencies and departments and shithole musk republicans constantly guaranteeing "farmers" monetary relief...........

taking away the farmers workers re: immigration crackdown and now "tariffs".

No wonder history is being ignored, cause it's 1929 again.

[Orrex]

31. I can't wait until 2028 when they all vote Republican again.

[Tarzanrock]

35. You won't have to wait that long.

Those ignorant Hayseeds in those Red States will vote en masse Republican again in 2026 in the mid-terms. The undeniable fact is that there is no amount of bad Republican farm policies; Republican caused economic recessions; bad Republican policies against the EPA; bad Republican oil policies and oil pollution policies from oil drilling on agricultural lands; bad Republican water pollution policies; and, bad Republican policies which refuse to deal with Climate Change which causes and encourages severe weather changes, terrible storms, floods, oppressive summer heats, droughts and dust none of which will in any way change the voting pattern of these ignorant Hayseeds. You can beat your heads against a brick wall wishing and dreaming that it might be otherwise but it is not.

[Orrex]

39. Yep

I have a friend who grew up in Indiana. I've known him close to 40 years, and he still worships Reagan because "he saved the farmers." That, plus a big dose of default racism/bigotry is what keeps some farmers fanatically Republican no matter how many times Repub policies are proven disastrous.

[Squaredeal]

33. Organic farmers voted for Harris.

…but they’re forward thinking.

[Blues Heron]

34. Hoist by their own petard.

[Mysterian]

36. Farmers will get their taxpayer-funded handouts like they always do

But don't call it "welfare" or "socialism."

[NickB79]

40. Ironically, increased immigration could reverse this and revitalize rural areas

Farmers are aging out, with no kids to pass their farms to. God knows I didn't want to take over my dad's farm.

So, small farms get absorbed into mega farms, population drops, and rural towns that were supported by farm families die out. Hospitals close, grocery stores close, schools close.

Let immigrants in, let them buy those small 150-250 acre family farms, let them grow diverse crops and livestock instead of corn and soy, pop out 3-4 kids, and rural areas will explode again.

The racism and fear gripping rural America is killing it.

[dalton99a]

46. +1

[haele]

50. ADM and Black Rock are salivating...

All that land will be up for auction by this time next year....

[Blue Full Moon]

52. JD Vance's company buys bankrupt farms

[sakabatou]

60. They're lining up to have their faces eaten by leopards

[Peacetrain]

62. Iowa here and it is that bad... we lose markets.. and we do not get them back