Rural Iowa voted overwhelmingly for Trump all three times. The first time Trump was president, he imposed tariffs and Iowa farmers were on welfare. This time around Trump's tariffs and retaliation will kill off the farm economy with permanent damage. Many of these markets for soybeans, pork, etc. aren't coming back. The question I have is how long are the rest of us supposed to bail out farmers who are getting what they voted for, who want their welfare checks but have issues with some poor child being fed? They also might want to stop voting for the Iowa senators and representatives who enable this crap.
As a former Farmer, I Quit after the 2018 crop, and now rent our Farm out, this is a Very Disappointing article. I was unaware that the Farm Bill had not been updated. I am neither R nor D, there is a reason the Republican Party has been referred to as the Stupid Party. To be fair, the Democratic Party seems to have lost its way. Either way, Agriculture is Hurting and,in some respects, Failing. The Ag Bill Needs to be Updated and Passed, and not be done thru another Executive Order. Just my opinion.
Let us review: 56.5% of Iowa voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2024. Grassley,, Ernst, Nunn and Feenstra all had similar electoral wins. Iowa voters elected a super majority of Republicans to both houses of the state legislature. You know, if Iowa farmers go bankrupt by the thousands and low-income Iowa families go hungry and lose their health care, could this be karma? Could this be Iowa getting exactly what it deserves? Will Iowans throw the MAGA party bums out in 2026? Don't count on it. Like a dog returns to its own vomit...
“You’d be hard pressed now to find any member of the Iowa delegation doing or saying anything to move a new Farm Bill toward enactment.”
Actually, whoever does Feenstra’s Facebook page periodically posts something whining about no farm bill, blaming Democrats. I guess that will be the expos his action.
Gas gets cheaper during a recession. Trump knows that. Gas prices went down last time he was president because he left office with the highest unemployment rate of any modern president--the only one to lose jobs while he was in office. Roosevelt had to bail out Hoover's economy. Obama had to bail out Bush's economic collapse. Biden had to bail out Trump's recession. Do we see a pattern here?
Wonder how long they'll keep blaming the Democrats for not passing a Farm Bill, while Trump rules from above, the dictator he promised to be, but not just for a day as we knew. But don't worry, direct payments are already in the works for commodity farmers while local food farmers watch $11 million disappear from Iowa alone. Who says the government doesn't pick winners and losers?
“Healthy and nutritional food supplies”: your words for what the federal SNAP program will allow lower income people to purchase by way US taxpayers. Take a look at the foods allowed under SNAP. Some are horrible and not “healthy and nutritious“ at all.
Yes. Like meat full of saturated fat. My concern isn't a $2 SNAP meal, its hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump to play golf, billions of dollars of wasteful contracts to Musk, and tariff taxes we have to pay while Trump runs his tariff shakedown scheme on a level mobsters could only dream about.
Rural Iowa voted overwhelmingly for Trump all three times. The first time Trump was president, he imposed tariffs and Iowa farmers were on welfare. This time around Trump's tariffs and retaliation will kill off the farm economy with permanent damage. Many of these markets for soybeans, pork, etc. aren't coming back. The question I have is how long are the rest of us supposed to bail out farmers who are getting what they voted for, who want their welfare checks but have issues with some poor child being fed? They also might want to stop voting for the Iowa senators and representatives who enable this crap.
As a former Farmer, I Quit after the 2018 crop, and now rent our Farm out, this is a Very Disappointing article. I was unaware that the Farm Bill had not been updated. I am neither R nor D, there is a reason the Republican Party has been referred to as the Stupid Party. To be fair, the Democratic Party seems to have lost its way. Either way, Agriculture is Hurting and,in some respects, Failing. The Ag Bill Needs to be Updated and Passed, and not be done thru another Executive Order. Just my opinion.
Let us review: 56.5% of Iowa voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2024. Grassley,, Ernst, Nunn and Feenstra all had similar electoral wins. Iowa voters elected a super majority of Republicans to both houses of the state legislature. You know, if Iowa farmers go bankrupt by the thousands and low-income Iowa families go hungry and lose their health care, could this be karma? Could this be Iowa getting exactly what it deserves? Will Iowans throw the MAGA party bums out in 2026? Don't count on it. Like a dog returns to its own vomit...
That metaphor seems sadly appropriate. 😕
“You’d be hard pressed now to find any member of the Iowa delegation doing or saying anything to move a new Farm Bill toward enactment.”
Actually, whoever does Feenstra’s Facebook page periodically posts something whining about no farm bill, blaming Democrats. I guess that will be the expos his action.
I’ve seen that. A great whiner. He’s on the committee. His job is to get it done. Period.
Nunn sends us emails like “isn’t it great we don’t have $5 gas prices anymore and gas’s is down to $2.88 per gallon?”
I have no idea where he got those numbers but he’s out to lunch.
We are having town hall meetings in his absence. He shows up to private meetings with his buddies and we find out after he’s left town.
Vote him out! There are good, responsible people ready to do the work he neglects to do.
Gas gets cheaper during a recession. Trump knows that. Gas prices went down last time he was president because he left office with the highest unemployment rate of any modern president--the only one to lose jobs while he was in office. Roosevelt had to bail out Hoover's economy. Obama had to bail out Bush's economic collapse. Biden had to bail out Trump's recession. Do we see a pattern here?
Wonder how long they'll keep blaming the Democrats for not passing a Farm Bill, while Trump rules from above, the dictator he promised to be, but not just for a day as we knew. But don't worry, direct payments are already in the works for commodity farmers while local food farmers watch $11 million disappear from Iowa alone. Who says the government doesn't pick winners and losers?
“Healthy and nutritional food supplies”: your words for what the federal SNAP program will allow lower income people to purchase by way US taxpayers. Take a look at the foods allowed under SNAP. Some are horrible and not “healthy and nutritious“ at all.
Yes. Like meat full of saturated fat. My concern isn't a $2 SNAP meal, its hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump to play golf, billions of dollars of wasteful contracts to Musk, and tariff taxes we have to pay while Trump runs his tariff shakedown scheme on a level mobsters could only dream about.