Why not then donate the excess that can’t be sold to countries where folks are starving until playing field is leveled. When that happens you might end up selling even more of your produce to China.
And that helps the farmers how?
You mean ‘destroy agricultural income in places already poor’.
Because then you are unable to make your loan payment, and you go bankrupt.
Same reason car companies don’t give away their excess inventory at the end of the year. Creditors have this funny way of demanding to be paid. Farmers would rather plow the crop under than pay to harvest it, process it, and then give it away.
So the tariffs are going to cost Trump in the midterms, and the ag market in the long term. South American has two to three growing seasons, and we do not. We make up for it in volume, but the cost point is to the level where it is pretty hard to turn a profit.