Posted on 12/09/2025 10:51:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Trump administration announced $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers in the wake of this year's tariff hikes on Monday, primarily targeting farmers who grow crops such as soybeans and corn.
The move was outlined during a White House roundtable event, featuring farmers affected as well as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Trump touted the program in relation to the revenue the government is taking in as a result of his sweeping tariff program and also referenced his popularity among farmers.
"What we're doing is we're taking a relatively small portion of that, and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. And we love our farmers," he said. "And as you know, the farmers like me, because, you know, based on, based on voting trends, you could call it voting trends or anything else, but they're great people."
The move comes as the administration looks to address economic concerns from key Trump constituencies as the tariff effects play out but also on the heels of a trying few years for row crop farmers.
Prices for row crops such as corn and soybeans have fallen in recent years, according to the Farm Bureau, and prices for inputs have risen over time. However, tariffs have also driven costs up on those inputs, including machinery and fertilizer.
The White House is calling the new policy the Farm Bridge Assistance program, saying it is intended to support farmers until Trump's economic policies, such as lowering some taxes and imposing stiff tariffs, take greater effect.
"President Trump is helping our agriculture industry by negotiating new trade deals to open new export markets for our farmers and boosting the farm safety net for the first time in a decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Watch out for the scammers that do not farm.
Hopefully the idea is to get them all down to zero. One or several countries at a time. That won’t stop the cheaters from using the tariff free countries.
That will certainly help. We have a 160 acre wheat farm in Oklahoma, and you couldn’t feed yourself off of it. Maybe I won’t lease it out for a solar farm after all.
10,000 Somali farmers already in line
“Not farming” payments, “corn ethanol” mandates, solar and wind leases on land already growing subsidized crops, crop insurance, guaranteed floor for prices, subsidized loans and various guarantees.
…all the scammer postions are full.
One hundred sixty acres just isn't a full time job to make a living. The BTOs take care of that acreage in about 5 days of work. That's just the way it is ....
Farmers got shafted by the big, beautiful deal to Argentina and Brazil. Hopefully this will make up for it.
BTO? Big Time Operations?
5 days of work? = 200 man-hours?
Ok, well, maybe 300 man-hours? (Most farmers I know a little of work pretty long hours.)
Five days equals about 50 man hours.
The BTO who farms the 114 acre field across from our farm tills it in about 3/4 of a day, plants it in one, sprays it in one, spreads fertilizer in one day and combines it in one day.
And off to the next one.
We are small, under 500 acres, but always had a full time business at the same time.
Retired mostly now. Rent some land out; farm the rest.
There is a lot more to it than that. This article gets into some (some) of it:
America sold its land and food processing plants to foreign entities. There should be a law against this.
Foreigners have raped our country of minerals, gold, and water too.
Noted. (I almost used 10 hour days in my 2nd estimate, but then guessed higher. The operations around me might be borderline BTO - depending on how you are defining BTO??)
We’re even, then. I needed to add a second worker to the harvest day to drive the tender.
A BTO is one bigger than ME.
Anyway, if you know your local producers, look up the subsides they receive at the EWG website.
That's a different discussion. How does it cause, say, water scarcity and high fertilizer costs? Documentation, please.
Did you even read the article I linked to?
I saw a video about this yesterday. If it’s accurate, the farmers will never see a penny of that aid. It’ll all go businesses they have to buy from in order to work their farms.
LOL
Are they wearing farmer style straw hats like the Maryland Dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia wore in his outdoor Tennessee photo shoot?
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