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Posted on 11/25/2025 11:19:31 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Here’s the bottom line: America’s farmers need help — now.
In my home state of Arkansas, for instance, our farmers are set to lose hundreds of dollars per acre on their soybean, corn, cotton and long-grain rice crops this year alone. The situation has gotten so bad that Arkansas cash crop receipts are now projected to fall by $617 million in 2025.
Adding to these challenges...the contrast between the steep cost of inputs (such as seed, fertilizer and diesel) and the commodity prices that farmers receive for their crops is at its highest level in 25 years. Put differently, input costs are too high and revenues are too low for many farmers to turn a profit, or at the very least, keep their businesses afloat...Among all southern region Chapter 12 bankruptcies...one in four were filed in Arkansas.
...In recent months, soybean farmers have been unfairly targeted by communist China. This is particularly difficult for Arkansans, given that soybeans are grown in 41 of Arkansas’ 75 counties... While I welcome the announcement that communist China intends to purchase 12 million metric tons of soybeans this year — and 25 million metric tons every year for the next three years — we ought to keep in mind President Ronald Reagan’s old Cold War approach: trust, but verify.
... Now that the Schumer Shutdown has finally come to an end, we can get back to work providing relief to our farmers that will bridge the gap between now and when the Working Families Tax Cut provisions kick in next year.
Our farmers and ranchers must have the necessary assistance and support to get through to the next season. But just as importantly, they must be able to continue growing, harvesting and operating for generations to come.
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So does he mean communism? What else could he mean?
More farm subsidies, more “from each according to their ability, to each farmer according to their need”.....
I’m done with the free money and the gibsmedats. Shut the spigots off. No more federal teet!
We have officially run out of other people’s money.
In that vein, Senator Hawley refuses to budge on Medicaid assurances for his state. He knows it’s political disaster if he doesn’t. He already had to flip once.
Well...duh...regulations and govt interference will do that
More hand outs ?
Soybeans are a commodity. If China buys another country’s soybeans, that country’s prior customers will buy ours.
It’s rearranging the same stuff, worldwide.
Tom Cotton has been in the Senate since January 6, 2015, making him a senator for a total of over 9 years as of February 22, 2025.
He was elected to the Senate in 2014 and has served as the junior United States senator from Arkansas.
No, Tom, the invading illegal immigrants, not farmers, are the ones who need those billions. You and the wimp GOP have let the Americans die on the vine.
Our schoolkids are illiterate feral criminals.
The Rats and their offspring run rampant every night in American cities.
The Communists are in ascendancy.
You all basically sat there and watched while the nation was invaded and taken over during Joe Braindead's presidency.
Congratulations on your nine years in the Senate. We are very proud of you.
Well ... starting tariff wars and blowing up export markets has a cost. Trump is rightly concerned with the trade deficit. But U.S. agriculture has always been a major exporter and it is catching a lot of the retaliation.
What would have been or would be a better way to address the trade deficit?
Maybe we produce more than we need to, and that over production reduces the price????
BS. He didn’t start any damn tariff war.
He rightly corrected the situation where the entire world put tariff and quotas on our exports while we barely did to theirs.
That stupid philosophy, for decades, sent good jobs overseas.
Farmers have been going bankrupt since, well , forever.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Tariffs and on food imports are being adjusted. So you want the USA to have a deindustrialized agrarian and mining economy? We fought a revolutionary war against that.
Sphinx is a global fascist with TDS and hates tariffs. A Marxist tool.
We need to get them off the monoculture, poison treadmill—instead of furthering it.
Lots of Americans go bankrupt every day. Why single out farmers for free money?
Food costs more than ever and I am supposed to cry for farmers...please
Farmers are a huge employer of illegal and wage killing migrant workers. As such this is a big who cares?
Soybean prices are better this year than any year under Brandon.
Meat is going for almost a dollar an ounce. An ounce of steak is about 3/4 inch cube of red meat.
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