Keep in mind that seasonal crops are going to be harvested soon, and nobody will be getting good prices from foreign sales this year. I know most farmers can ride out at least one bad season, but if the current policy continues into next year you can bet that a huge number of farms are going to completely collapse.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
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China is cutting soybean orders from $13B to $0B. No one is buying US crops from Canada.
What the fuck did they expect to happen? Where do stereotypes of farm hicks come from?
Trump won't help them, because he will never admit there is a problem.
Small farmers are gonna get cooked. Big agribusiness with access to capital markets and geographic diversification is going to hoover up the land at fire sale prices. Or the usual private equity vultures
I can feel America getting greater
The big farms are the ones that can afford to bribe Trump with golden offerings, so they will get bailouts and then raise their prices anyway. This Winter is when things will start getting interesting, because we can't afford to import food but we'll have to do it anyway, and grocery prices will go through the roof. I can't wait to hear the MAGA excuses about why they can't eat, but it will of course be blamed on the Dems. Quite frankly, I say let them rot. I've been stockpiling canned goods over the Summer, I can wait it out.
That's really fucking bleak
This country is beyond cooked