"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
/3

"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
/3

"He responded that he didn’t regret his vote, because his vote was about more than his farm or tariffs; it was about God, guns, and abortion. In sum, he’d take the hit because there were bigger issues at stake.

That conversation is part of my first book, God Land, published in 2019. But I think about it often, because it highlights so many of the problems with political reporting. It’s not about the policies; it’s about the priorities."

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #Iowa #farmers
/2

"This week, the New York Times ran an image of a farmer on the front page. ...

The story is about how Trump’s tariff policies are affecting the very farmers in Iowa who voted for him. ...

In 2017, I asked a farmer how he felt about voting for Trump, even though Republican policies were hurting his business."

~ Lyz Lenz

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
/1

https://www.patreon.com/posts/only-white-guys-142289315

"When all is said and done, the White House hopes to provide $40 billion in rescue money for Argentina. …

Trump’s economic 'policy' has no real philosophy—it just involves throwing money at people he wants to help and tariffs at people he decides to punish. There’s no other rhyme or reason to it, and now even MAGA is starting to notice."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy #farmers #agriculture #beef
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-cry-for-me-argentina-heres-40b-trump-america-first-moo

"[Farmers] see that Donald Trump has to make a choice. And his choice is either: Is he going to screw over his billionaire friends in Argentina, or is he going to screw over the farmer? And he’s picking the billionaire."

~ Matt Hildreth of RuralOrganizing.org, whose family has farmed for genereations

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy #farmers #agriculture #beef
/4

https://newrepublic.com/article/202097/trump-screwing-voters-badly-shocked-maga-farmer

Every #successful harvest has a painful #story behind it. Let's #cherish the work done by these young #farmers.

Every #successful harvest has a painful #story behind it. Let's #cherish the work done by these young #farmers.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics for most of the postwar era, is in danger of crumbling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/japan/politics/japan-ruling-party-ldp-in-danger/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #farmers #agriculture #rurallife #rice #shinjirokoizumi #sanaetakaichi #sanseito

"President Donald Trump's tariffs have decimated U.S. farmers' soybean market and there is 'no sign of Chinese buying.'

The fall harvest has started without any orders from China, the world's biggest buyer, according to a new report published on agriculture.com's Successful Farming."

~ Nicole Charky-Chami

#Trump #farmers #agriculture #economy #soybeans #bankruptcy #China #tariffs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/no-sign-of-chinese-buying-trump-credited-for-devastating-us-farmers-soybeans-market/ar-AA1NdZeY

“The National Corn Growers Association reports that 46% of U.S. farmers believe the country is on the brink of agricultural economic crisis, with corn margins showing losses of $161 per acre. These supposedly core MAGA supporters are discovering that deportation policies create severe labor shortages threatening entire harvests, while cash receipts for crop farms have declined by $71 billion over the past three years.”

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #economy #tariffs #farmers

https://open.substack.com/pub/mikebrock/p/the-miscalculation?r=2xjx0&utm_medium=ios

“The National Corn Growers Association reports that 46% of U.S. farmers believe the country is on the brink of agricultural economic crisis, with corn margins showing losses of $161 per acre. These supposedly core MAGA supporters are discovering that deportation policies create severe labor shortages threatening entire harvests, while cash receipts for crop farms have declined by $71 billion over the past three years.”

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #economy #tariffs #farmers

https://open.substack.com/pub/mikebrock/p/the-miscalculation?r=2xjx0&utm_medium=ios

Africa: Farmers Build Resilience with Genebank Seeds: [Crop Trust] In Ghana, farmers can generally get hold of just a few varieties of Bambara groundnut to plant. But this is beginning to change, thanks to a new way of connecting farmers with seeds from the national genebank. This is giving farmers a chance to grow varieties that may be more suited to their needs and farms, and encourages the… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TN8QXw #Africa #Farmers #Genebank #BambaraGroundnut #SustainableAgriculture

Africa: Farmers Build Resilience with Genebank Seeds: [Crop Trust] In Ghana, farmers can generally get hold of just a few varieties of Bambara groundnut to plant. But this is beginning to change, thanks to a new way of connecting farmers with seeds from the national genebank. This is giving farmers a chance to grow varieties that may be more suited to their needs and farms, and encourages the… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TN8QXw #Africa #Farmers #Genebank #BambaraGroundnut #SustainableAgriculture

"Farmers in the rural region near the New York border say those stories are not unique.

'The whole thing is screwed up,' said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. 'We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.'”

#Trump #economy #farmers #agriculture #NewYork #immigrants #deportations#ICE#MaskedThugs #labor #workers
/4

The #TrumpAdministration has found a way to screw #farmers and the #climate at the same time. They count that as a win-win, I think. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support/

The #TrumpAdministration has found a way to screw #farmers and the #climate at the same time. They count that as a win-win, I think. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support/

Crops are rotting in the fields, on the vine and in the trees because more than 70% of farm labor has been deported, fled or is scared that ICE will round them up.

And weirdly enough none of the MAGA Trump voters who whine about immigrants stealing their jobs have stepped up to take the place of the displaced migrant workers.

#MAGA #immigration #jobs #news #farmers #trump #food #republicans #gop #irony #ice

Crops are rotting in the fields, on the vine and in the trees because more than 70% of farm labor has been deported, fled or is scared that ICE will round them up.

And weirdly enough none of the MAGA Trump voters who whine about immigrants stealing their jobs have stepped up to take the place of the displaced migrant workers.

#MAGA #immigration #jobs #news #farmers #trump #food #republicans #gop #irony #ice