Hard workers, tough schedules and nature hindered by climate change. One or two crops away from bankruptcy. All they want to do is work hard for good crops and earn an honest dollar. The Republicans, by reducing SNAP, instituting tariffs, reducing accurate weather forecasting and reduction in policies reducing climate change are killing our agriculture industry. And, I didn't even mention taking away their labor source.

WHY DOES THIS ADMINISTRATION AND REPUBLICANS HATE FARMERS?

That's why they are where they are.

one, am radio and two religious leaders. They compliment each other and are in complete synchronicity when it comes to messaging. To pararaphrase, "they drink the sand because they don't know the difference".

They will begin losing their farms after 2026 but before 2028 so if Dems take the House they will get the blame and Repugs will campaign on lies for 2028. Short memories and attention spans do not work in Dems favor. We need to remind them of what really happened and highlight everything as it happens, continuously for the duration of this administration. From Ernst saying everybody dies to Bondi making a sexual predator comfortable while "doing time" and the Felon saying we're going to experience some pain after instituting tariffs as he sees fit.
These are all by Republicans choice, not necessity. They needed to get tax
breaks for the billionaire class so Americans had to sacrifice medical care, money, and farms. Our Nation's security is at stake in every form of that statement. In the meantime the Felon has made billion$.

It means all consuming, rabid lust for personal wealth
and power, willing to use any means to get it, including
appealing to potential eople like farmers to get it....
when the actual goal was to take over the farms after
destroying them.

The same could also be said for trade unionists.

Some of us know which side of our bread is buttered.

The Dems are the only ones that ever tried to do something about global climate change. Here in East TN, we also experienced a drought and then flooding. It's the constant changing of weather patterns that really make it hard to farm.

I've lived on this farm for about 25 years and I have never had such difficulty growing vegetables. What would grow in spring no longer can take the heat and bolts or sun scalds. What grew in early summer now gets flooded and attacked by bacteria and mildew. And I haven't even mentioned the new bug invasion that eats everything including trees. While the insects you relied on to keep the voracious hoards of planting eating bugs at bay are slowly disappearing and are too few to make an impact.

The sudden switch from frost to warm to frost in spring has killed off my fruit trees. The 90+ temperatures in late summer puts plants into heat stress or dormancy. And the excessive heat delays the planting of my fall crops so they don't get enough growth in before the frost hits.

Anyway, I never am sure what the weather will do so a lot of my plantings tend to die off. But a few survive. And I learn from them. It's always an experiment.

Nuff said

it's like Florida North fer crissakes. The problem with Ohio is it's full of Ohioans.

They voted for the orange fraudster rapist. Stupid mf'ers. I'm much more concerned with everybody dealing with the higher prices for fresh food. repukes always f6ck things up and Dems pay the political price for fixing the problems repukes create.

One dimensional thinking.

One friend, his grandfather was furious at the Raisin Bargaining Association because they took a smaller price for the crops. What he didn't understand was, at the higher price, the less crop could be purchased and he and others who have leave everything that was left to rot. The lower price guaranteed more of it being bought. But I didn't bother reasoning with him, I knew he could not understand it.

One relative grew cotton, but he lost his farm during the Reagan years. Banks made it easy for farmers to borrow money....and so he bought some luxuries thinking he could pay it back. Then the market collapsed.

My wife's uncle had a neighbor who grew a crop of strawberries, cannery refused the entire crop (turns out a lot of others were growing the same). Told him to take as much as he wants as he was certain to go into bankruptcy. That same time, my wife's uncle knew someone at the cannery and told him that he may want to get out of farming and retire. They were just getting too much of everything. He took his advice.

People don't appreciate the talent and experience it takes, IMHO.
I think the business side is what ends them.

They are undoubtedly going to borrow money from China and give farmers a massive handout, but don't call it WELFARE!

''subsidies" or "safety net".......it's absolutely welfare. My extended family that farms in Michigan has been living off our Gov't for generations and voting Republican just as long. Eff them too.

unwarranted, meritless tariffs and human-caused climate change Trump and Republicans refuse to do anything about.