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(8,231 posts)for years to come.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,837 posts)Apparently they don't know that China can get its soybeans and other ag products from elsewhere in the world, like Brazil and Russia, and their people won't starve. And US farmers won't get the Chinese market back any time soon.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Soon China will be sucking up winter produce that normally come to the US, so prices for us will go up. Trump is the best thing that could have happened for China, he irritates the leaders there, but they are way ahead of that moron.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)n/t
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)they deserve everything they get .... apparently they haven't figured out yet Trump could give 2 shits.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)"Brodrick Schmidt, an 18-year-old farmer who wore a Trump hat, noted that Chinese hogs have been suffering from a disease outbreak, which could make American pork more appealing to them.
If they want to cut off their trades and exports, then so be itlet their people starve, he said. Right now, were in a good position to actually break through that and end up on top.
With the economy booming, Schmidt finds it difficult to fault Trumps trade decisions. Prices on corn and soybeans are actually higher than they were under the Obama administration, so honestly, if you want to look president-to-president, Im not really complaining, he said."
Iowa doesn't have 18-year-old farmers. Most farmers have college degrees and at 18 they are FUTURE farmers.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,837 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)question everything
(47,535 posts)myohmy2
(3,176 posts)...to be paid in the farm belt this fall...in the big cities too...
...many fields sat fallow this year...farm income is dropping while food prices are rising...
...subsidies won't last forever but trump's trade war will...China's not going anywhere...China has the market and economic might of 1.6 billion people...
...they will eat and eat well...we'll be the one's starving...
...republicans...
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