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October 21, 2025
Robert McCoy
American Farmers Slam Trump’s “Betrayal” With Argentina Beef Deal
Farmers are pissed at Donald Trump’s plan to import Argentine beef.
September 29, 2025
Edith Olmsted
John Thune Admits Trump Tariffs Are Screwing American Farmers
Senate Majority Leader John Thune revealed the plan to bail out struggling farmers.
September 25, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Goes on Weird Rant About Using Tariff Money to Bail Out Farmers
Donald Trump couldn’t keep straight how much money his tariffs have supposedly produced.
September 24, 2025
Monica Potts
Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich.
The majority of family farmers aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.
August 19, 2025
Robert McCoy
In Wake of Trump Tariffs, John Deere Announces Mass Layoffs
More than 200 workers will be affected.
August 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Epstein Lawyer Yelled out of Farmers Market as Pierogi Feud Escalates
Alan Dershowitz tried to harass a pierogi seller. It didn’t go well for him.
June 17, 2025
Edith Olmsted
TACO Trump Chickens Out on Major Immigration Flip
Donald Trump has decided he’s OK with hurting farmers, actually.
June 12, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Brazenly Admits His Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Farmers
Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing.
June 2, 2025
Grace Segers
Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More
Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering.
April 15, 2025
Marin Scotten
Trump Sends Desperate Message to Farmers as Tariffs War Gets Worse
American farmers are already feeling the shocks of Trump’s reckless tariffs war.
March 10, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s Sticker Shocks Are About to Hit the Produce Aisle
The president’s policies regarding trade and immigration, as well as bone-deep cuts to government spending, have brought chaos to the nation’s agriculture industry.
March 3, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Reveals Tariffs Plan to Ruin American Farmers’ Lives
Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs—and then told American farmers to “have fun!”
March 30, 2020
Miranda Green
Don’t Worry About Supermarket Shelves. Worry About Farmers.
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on milk sales, the seasonal labor force, restaurant contracts, and more.
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