Farmers could get hit hard by the tRump Shutdown

[Phys251]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...utdown-farmers-agriculture-impact/2481655002/

Farmers say the timing could hardly be worse as they've already been hit with fallen commodity prices and the loss of foreign markets in President Donald Trump's trade wars.

As a result of the shutdown, applications are now on hold for a $12 billion emergency aid package Trump and the Department of Agriculture announced for farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs from China and other nations. A Jan. 15 deadline for that program may have to be extended.

“Farmers are waiting on that second payment because they need to start buying their seed, fertilizer and chemicals for 2019,” said Michael Slattery, a grain farmer and economist for the Wisconsin Farmers Union. “The earlier in the year you buy seed, the bigger the discount you get."

First tRump's trade wars and now this. A loud minority of people want to stick it to the "elites" with this shutdown, but the bottom line is: It's going to hurt the little guy, too. Time for tRump to learn how to compromise.

 

[Mr Person]

At his command, quite a lot of DP conservatives are already blaming the Democrats for the shutdown Trump repeatedly threatened to force and said he would own. I wonder how willing those minions that are farmers are to play along with that game when it's actually hurting them for once (rather than some alleged 'elitist coastal liberal').



I do hope nobody filed early because they will get a refund and actually need it....

 

[tres borrachos]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...utdown-farmers-agriculture-impact/2481655002/



First tRump's trade wars and now this. A loud minority of people want to stick it to the "elites" with this shutdown, but the bottom line is: It's going to hurt the little guy, too. Time for tRump to learn how to compromise.

This is sad. Family farms are a dying breed to begin with, and now Trump is making it even harder and worse for them.

I do hope the Wisconsinites remember this in 2020.

 

[Phys251]

This is sad. Family farms are a dying breed to begin with, and now Trump is making it even harder and worse for them.

I do hope the Wisconsinites remember this in 2020.

For all the stereotypes about the dumb farmer, farming is truly one of the hardest jobs out there. Especially in states such as Wisconsin that can get below zero degrees this time of year. The work. Just. Never. Ends.

The last thing they need is an idiotic, out-of-touch president making a tough job tougher.