Trump-loving farmers want blue states to bail them out again
President Donald Trump has decimated the agricultural industry of soybeans and the widest A massive federal rescue of $ 28 billionsupported mainly by blue statesthe main economic engines of the country. It is red America that sucks the rest of the country dry.
Thus, after having seen prices in the long term, stimulating the demand for insatiable soy of China in BrazilAnd watch Trump in 2024 promise even more prices, what did these farmers do? They voted for him again last year.
We recently recorded On Arkansas soy producers, begging the federals to help them.
“I think the prices are the ice cream on the cake of a perfect storm,” said one during a public meeting where they groaned the consequences of their votes. “When you try to sell a product, okay, American soybeans leaving New Orleans without the price in China are cheaper than Brazilian soy, on the current market. But when you put the price at the top, Brazilian beans are cheaper.”
We must note how these farmers do not follow their president decree So that they “prepare to start making a lot of agricultural products for sale in the United States. The prices will go on an external product on April 2. Have fun!”
In reality, there is not a hint of “pleasure” in one of these stories, as this one In Nebraska, where the Republicans strongly denounced “socialism” … except when they called “security nets”, that they felt very well that they deserved.
Not much pleasure in this good done article either by the Belvedere of Tennessee either. Soy farmers in the volunteer state are and their colleagues from other states. “We are in an important and desperate situation,” said the executive director of Tennessee Soybean Promotion Council, Stefan Maupin. “None of the cultures that farmers cultivate at the moment hold a profit. They are not even breaking.”
Wow, it seems terrible. Why can’t they even break? There is inflation, of course, gracked Trump’s prices. And these farmers were affected by a double blow because China has moved a large part of its soybean purchases in Brazil in response.
And these farmers should have known better. Tennessee soybean farmers lost 40 million dollars during the 2018 Trump price chaos, even after the money of the federal bailout, according to an extension of agriculture at the University of Tennessee study. But when a trans child could dare to participate in school sports on the other side of the country – why he had no choice!
“Right now this year, and seeming to enter next year, the harvest will not be cash,” said Maupin, noting that even if Trump has managed to conclude a trade agreement with China, farmers will always have to borrow against their assets to survive, driving in debt if they want to continue agriculture.
Yes, all of this is an argument for more government aid. Farmers hope more of this sweet and sweet federal socialism (do not call it so). Why should they care about it anyway? Blue states will be those that will save them again.
But they also consider new markets, pinning hopes for states, such as California and Washington, which establish new fuel standards. Unfortunately for them, these states move in the opposite direction.
California Air Resources Board has written new standardsand one of its objectives is “[d]Role of ecradition for biomethane as a transport fuel. “Although the agency recognizes a role for biofuels in hard -to -decarbonizing sectors (such as heavy industrial trucks), it explicitly prefers” waste -based raw materials ” – or oils used – on virgin crops. howling.
No, the Blue States should not bail out these farmers, whether through federal rejuvenations or biofuel mandates. After decades of subsidies reimbursed with contempt and the burn of Trumpism, they can fuck.
It is, after all, exactly what they are massively voted for.
