After wrecking soy farmers' international markets, Trump plans to give soy farmers billions in taxpayer funded government handouts

Cypress said:

Trump making plans to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers with taxpayer money​

The Trump administration is planning to roll out the first tranche of bailout payments for farmers in the coming weeks using likely billions of dollars in funding from an internal USDA account, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.

But it won’t be enough: USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund — which President Donald Trump previously tapped to provide $28 billion in farm aid during his first-term trade war with China — has just $4 billion left in the account. Trump officials, including those at the Treasury Department, are looking at how to tap tariff receipts or other funding to supplement the payments without triggering a messy fight in Congress.

The timing of the actual aid rollout is also tricky given that it’s unlikely to happen or even be possible during the ongoing government shutdown that’s shuttered vast swaths of the Agriculture Department.

Trump officials are still working on estimates of how big the first tranche of aid will be, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity to share private details. But the president has been posting his promises to aid American soybean farmers on social media in recent days.

Hill Republicans have been pushing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and other Trump officials for weeks to do something to aid farmers reeling from high input costs and the president’s tariffs, which have cut off American soybean farmers’ key markets in China as Beijing retaliates.

Trump has said he would use tariff revenue to provide cash bailouts to farmers, but Congress would likely need to vote to authorize such a move, triggering a major fight between Republicans and Democrats amid already dire government spending conversations.

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Cost of confronting China. Try to keep up.
 
Phyllis Diller said:
yes.

fuck soybeans.

More Mary Jane!
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Ya can't really eat that. How about rabbit farms like the Goldkist 40-acre building chicken factories?
You should see these things, they're like 40 acres by 5 stories high.
I've seen some big warehouses, but those things are something else. :oops:
Rabbit meat is good! And they breed like rabbits.
 
Phyllis Diller said:
yes.

fuck soybeans.

More Mary Jane!
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Soybeans are used as feed for cattle, pigs and chickens. Having an abundance of feed for these animals should reduce costs to farmers who raise these animals.

Fuck soybeans? Hmmm...
Gotta smoke a hell of a lot of Mary Jane to fuck soybeans.
Maybe some of the forum's connoisseurs could chime in on fucking soybeans??
 
RB 60 said:
Soybeans are used as feed for cattle, pigs and chickens. Having an abundance of feed for these animals should reduce costs to farmers who raise these animals.

Fuck soybeans? Hmmm...
Gotta smoke a hell of a lot of Mary Jane to fuck soybeans.
Maybe some of the forum's connoisseurs could chime in on fucking soybeans??
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'round heanh, cow feed is made from baked citrus rinds and added vitamins.
True Story. Japanese love it. Local farmers can buy trailers full, too. Idk if that still happens with Tropicana going under.
 
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Cypress said:
The weird thing is that farmers are nearly always risk-averse. I have dealt with many farmers, and they don't like taking chances or trying out unproven strategies.

The fact that, at least in public, they were willing to go along with Trump's unprecedented and risky global trade war means to me their support for Trump isn't based on policy. It's based on cultural values, grievances, cultural beliefs.
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Well almost as soon as trump started putting his tariffs on and the cost of farming went up because of those tariffs a lot of farmers did come out and say " I didn't vote for this", and started saying they may have to go bankrupt. and some of them did.
I hope they wake up and soon.
 
RB 60 said:
Soybeans are used as feed for cattle, pigs and chickens. Having an abundance of feed for these animals should reduce costs to farmers who raise these animals.

Fuck soybeans? Hmmm...
Gotta smoke a hell of a lot of Mary Jane to fuck soybeans.
Maybe some of the forum's connoisseurs could chime in on fucking soybeans??
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I had a soybean sprout garden but never thought about trying to smoke it. I'll have to give it a try.
 
Althea said:
The day he got elected, Xi was in contact with Brazil/Argentina. He knew trump would start singing the 'Tariff Shuffle' again.
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And the MAGAS and Trump can't see it is the American consumer who is going to end up paying most of the tariffs.
Yes the exporting countries and retailers will absorb SOME of them but when they start hurting their bottom line they will start passing them on to the consumer as we have already seen some do. and I wouldn't put it past some of them to add a couple percent on to them and pad their bottom line.
Trump's tariffs are only going to hurt the American consumer and our national economy.
And NOT all of them have worked their way through the supply chain yet so a lot more prices will be going up even more and soon.
 
And one other thing as we can see the shutdown has taken attention away from people talking about Trump's tariffs and what they are doing to our economy.
MAGAS won't wake up till the Tariffs come back and bite them in their pocketbooks.
It is only a matter of time.
 
Walt said:
We have record high non-emergency deficits for a reason, and it is not that we have accumulated too much tax money. There are no "abundant piles of cash", but exceptionally high borrowing.
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Wally, I have stopped listening to anything financial from you since Sept. 30th, 2025.
 
RB 60 said:
Soybeans are used as feed for cattle, pigs and chickens. Having an abundance of feed for these animals should reduce costs to farmers who raise these animals.

Fuck soybeans? Hmmm...
Gotta smoke a hell of a lot of Mary Jane to fuck soybeans.
Maybe some of the forum's connoisseurs could chime in on fucking soybeans??
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lighten up, Francis.
 
domer76 said:
He did the same thing his first time around
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I think it says something about farmers too. Farmers are famously risk-averse, don't like taking chances, and don't like unproven and risky business strategies.

The fact that most of them continue to vote for Trump and won't openly revolt against the unprecedented and risky Republican global trade war obviously shows their votes for Trump aren't based on policy. They're based on cultural values and grievance issues.
 
Cypress said:

Trump making plans to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers with taxpayer money​

The Trump administration is planning to roll out the first tranche of bailout payments for farmers in the coming weeks using likely billions of dollars in funding from an internal USDA account, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.

But it won’t be enough: USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund — which President Donald Trump previously tapped to provide $28 billion in farm aid during his first-term trade war with China — has just $4 billion left in the account. Trump officials, including those at the Treasury Department, are looking at how to tap tariff receipts or other funding to supplement the payments without triggering a messy fight in Congress.

The timing of the actual aid rollout is also tricky given that it’s unlikely to happen or even be possible during the ongoing government shutdown that’s shuttered vast swaths of the Agriculture Department.

Trump officials are still working on estimates of how big the first tranche of aid will be, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity to share private details. But the president has been posting his promises to aid American soybean farmers on social media in recent days.

Hill Republicans have been pushing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and other Trump officials for weeks to do something to aid farmers reeling from high input costs and the president’s tariffs, which have cut off American soybean farmers’ key markets in China as Beijing retaliates.

Trump has said he would use tariff revenue to provide cash bailouts to farmers, but Congress would likely need to vote to authorize such a move, triggering a major fight between Republicans and Democrats amid already dire government spending conversations.

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Trump is really good at spending other people's money and running up the national dept. :thup:
 
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