Posted on 03/10/2018 12:27:17 PM PST by reaganaut1
MAPLE PARK, Ill. — Snow and sleet were falling on Eldon Gould’s 500 acres this week, but he was already looking ahead to planting season; depending on ground conditions and the temperature, that could be just several weeks away.
But now the prospect of steel and aluminum tariffs was adding to the list of worries and uncertainties that come with every corn and soybean season.
“It’s the retaliation risk,” Mr. Gould said from his kitchen table in Maple Park, in a region of northern Illinois where farmland runs on for miles.
“The world’s already awash in grain,” Mr. Gould said, “and then if you lose a key customer — it’s big. They’re going to go somewhere else to buy it.”
Continue reading the main story That’s a tangible threat throughout the Midwest, which accounts for roughly half the nation’s agricultural output, a prime target in any tit-for-tat response to the tariffs announced by President Trump. Unlike the rest of the economy, farms deliver a trade surplus for the United States, and a trade war could put barriers around lucrative markets.
Mr. Gould, 76, is a longtime Republican, and like large numbers of farmers, he voted for Mr. Trump. But several of the president’s policy positions, like curtailing crop insurance, have run counter to agricultural interests — and perhaps none more than trade.
The country’s overall trade deficit continues to irritate Mr. Trump. Last year, he withdrew from the nascent Trans-Pacific Partnership, challenged the authority of the World Trade Organization, and insisted on rewriting the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada — a pact that has helped lift American farmers’ fortunes at a time when low prices have eaten into their incomes.
In January, the president imposed tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I know too many farmers that are addicted to the teat of gubermint programs...
I asked one once if they would give up gubermint subsidies at a rate of 1:2 for a tax cut.... Meaning they would forfeit 100 bucks of subsidy for a 200 buck tax cut...
He said he wouldn't...
This is a YUGE problem.
More fake news.... Trump base threatens to desert him.
Where have we heard that before? I guess Stormy Daniels is getting the desired result...
NYT wants us to believe tariffs will bring down Trump where Russia or a porn star couldn’t. LOL
More stooge wet dreams
Nonsense
Once agin the Slimes is playing the globalist card
Did the former executive editor of the NY Slimes let you hold and caress her Obama Comfort Doll for posting this garbage?
Former NYT Executive Editor (Jill Abramson) Keeps Barack Obama Therapy Doll In Her Purse
The Daily Caller ^ | 6:56 PM 03/09/2018 | GABRIELLE OKUN
Posted on 3/10/2018, 9:53:51 AM by E. Pluribus Unum
A former New York Times executive editor keeps a Barack Obama therapy doll in her purse, she wrote of herself in an op-ed The Guardian published Wednesday.
Jill Abramson, 63, the former executive editor for The New York Times from 2011 to 2014, claimed she keeps a therapy doll of the 44th president to get her through the Trump Administration, she wrote in The Guardian Mar. 7th. The Harvard educated journalist previously wrote an Obama Administration book, “Obama: The Historic Journey,” published in 2009.
Abramson discussed a so-called “Trump rebellion,” alleging there is a solid chance Democrats will win the Senate, House and possibly the White House in 2020. The Ivy League educated journalist is carrying the “little plastic Obama doll” until the possible Democratic victory.
“It’s easy to look at what’s happening in Washington, D.C. and despair. That’s why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse. I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African American president until very recently. Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it in Donald Trump’s America,” Abramson wrote.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3638708/posts
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The North Korea talks are going to take a blowtorch to Dem’s wet undies!
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With the GMO higher-yield seeds, chemicals and fertilizers, planting costs are higher, so farmers go for high yields. And many have moved to more acres in soybeans as the yields per acre are less but prices are now around $10 bu. not counting the basis or if you store your crops in your own bins (some risk with that, too, but plenty seem to do it).
There are a lot more factors and variables.
You forgot to post this from your from your favorite slamming Trump source, the NY Slimes!
Communist Apologist New York Times Partners with Communist Apologist Jane Fonda to Celebrate...
Townhall ^ | Mar 10, 2018 12:01 AM | Humberto Fontov
Posted on 3/10/2018, 10:35:53 AM by E. Pluribus Unum
[ FULL TITLE ] [ Communist Apologist New York Times Partners with Communist Apologist Jane Fonda to Celebrate Communist-Launched “International Women’s Day” ]
“To support and honor womankind Pomelatto and The New York Times collaborate to spread a message of positive female empowerment for International Women’s Day. Through a NYT article (and video) detailing important milestones in the women’s movement…with an international cast of powerful women (prominently including Jane Fonda), the new partnership champions female achievements, leadership, and gender equality.”
“What makes me angry are bullies & liars who are in control,” declares an earnest-looking Hanoi Jane in the Pomelatto/New York Times video.
Fine, Ms Fonda and New York Times, let’s talk about some bullies and liars:
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s regime jailed 35,150 Cuban women (many of them actually girls in their late teens) for political crimes, a totalitarian horror utterly unknown—not only in Cuba—but in the Western Hemisphere. This is the regime hailed by so many western “feminists.” Some of these Cuban ladies suffered twice as long in Castro’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3638721/posts
The North Korea talks are going to take a blowtorch to Dem’s wet undies!
Just, the pre talk news has set their wet/smelly Pampers on fire!
“It’s the retaliation risk,” Mr. Gould said from his kitchen table in Maple Park...
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What is it with the MSM. They interview a farmer it’s inevitably at their kitchen table. Is it part of the down-home shtick the media feels they need to provide in the story to make it sound authentic?
Dismiss it if you will, but the fear is real.
The NY Times ventures into flyover country. Their concern is heartwarming.
LOL. The New York Times is dealing a bit below the belt passing off Eldon Gould as just a typical farmer that their reporter bumped into while adventuring into flyover country. Eldon comes across personally as one of the warmest, most unassuming people you will ever meet, and that's all true. But he's also a certifiable bigfoot. He's now getting along in years but he's played for decades at the highest levels of the Illinois and National Corngrowers, the Illinois Pork Producers, and the U.S. Grains Council, of which he is a former chairman. The Grains Council focuses on export promotion, and I can only guess how many countries he's been to developing markets for U.S. corn, soybeans and pork. Gould was also Administrator of the Risk Management Agency of USDA during the Bush 43 administration. He's what is known as a "farmer leader," and he's a good one. Should a reporter ask around among the big agricultural groups in DC for a good interview subject to add local color to a story, Eldon Gould is a name that many would suggest, and all would know. I assume that's how the NYT got his name to request an interview.
He's a good guy and a straight shooter. It's a small world. I interviewed him once, years ago. We sat in his office, which is just around the corner from the kitchen table, but small difference. Glad to see that he's still on the circuit.
Most farmers I know vote democrat. If they grow grain they are on the gov handout wagon. Cattle farmers totally different story. Beef imports are killing them.
They used to have no limits. Everything helps. Yes, I could get along without it. It could come to the point where I couldn't which is time to get out of it.
I won't justify taking any just because huge land owners get thousands each year and combine putting some in the name of spouses or other family member) even more. All legal but they have cut them considerably compared to former years. I don't know why they do it in the first place as they don't seem to benefit those who could use them the most, people whose sole dream in life is to go into farming of some kind but startup costs today and competing for land.
And they darn well should quit selling our land off to foreigners and quit being so greedy with trying to control more themselves. Look at a map and all the set aside land compared to 30-50 years ago. Green everywhere.
And I can't stand those wind turbines, smaller ones and just one or two and a few solar panels would be acceptable. But we are stuck with them until the end of time for all I know.
Now Solar City and no doubt others are leasing usually wasteland areas even in the midwest many acres from land owners and setting up banks and banks of solar panels. Clean energy. At a cost. But look what's doing to birds and who knows what else?
I don't think foreigners can own or invest in land in Switzerland or Mexico but I thought some US citizens did have places in Mexico.
And water wars are coming; we depend only on rainfall now if not near a significant waterway.
This is fake news. The rest of the world does not grow enough food, they need American farmers more than we need them.
My, how far we have fallen.
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