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• Tariffs and Trade War: The trade war with China, initiated by the Trump administration, resulted in retaliatory tariffs that slashed export markets for American agricultural products, particularly soybeans, which saw exports to China fall drastically.
• Financial Distress: Combined with low commodity prices and bad weather, these policies led to increased bankruptcies, 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/politics ... nsequences

https://liberalforum.net//////////////////During the Trump administration and subsequent periods of trade disruption (2018–2025), farmers faced increased financial stress, resulting in higher rates of bankruptcies, foreclosures, and reported suicides. While over $12 billion in bailout payments via the Market Facilitation Program and other measures were implemented to offset losses from trade wars with China and other nations, these funds often benefited larger operations, leaving many smaller farmers struggling with debt///////////////////////

..................////////////////////Donald Trump's trade war with China contributed to a spike in farmer suicides across the Midwest in recent years, according to an investigation by USA Today and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.

On Monday, USA Today reported that more than 450 farmers killed themselves between 2014 and 2018. However, investigators cautioned that the true number is likely higher because several states did not share complete data with the investigative team.

More than 150 of the suicides were committed during 2017 and 2018.

"We like to identify something as the cause," Ted Matthews, a psychologist who works with Minnesota farm families, told USA Today. "Right now, they talk about commodity prices being the cause, and it's definitely a cause, but it is not the only one by any stretch."

The investigation found several key factors that contributed to the suicide crisis, including the drop in commodity prices since 2012, as well as increased farmer debt, bad weather that prevented planting, and a severe drop in exports to China "amid festering trade tensions."

Trump often complained about U.S. trade policies when running for office, and started taking some actions in 2017 in an attempt to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China. In March 2018, Trump officially announced $50 billion in tariffs against China, setting off an extended trade war between the two countries.

Since Trump's trade war began, farmer bankruptcies in the Midwest have been on the rise. Bankruptcies for Midwest farmers increased by 19 percent in 2018 compared to the year before, according to the Farm Bureau. In 2019, Midwest farmers saw bankruptcies increase by another 17 percent compared to 2018.

Across the country, the Farm Bureau reported a 20 percent increase in farm bankruptcies in 2019 compared to 2018..............................////////////////////////
 

jerra b » 12 Feb 2026, 11:50 pm » wrote: ↑

12 Feb 2026, 11:50 pm

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• Tariffs and Trade War: The trade war with China, initiated by the Trump administration, resulted in retaliatory tariffs that slashed export markets for American agricultural products, particularly soybeans, which saw exports to China fall drastically.
• Financial Distress: Combined with low commodity prices and bad weather, these policies led to increased bankruptcies, 

How many countries govern the global human population of 8.3 billion reproductions inhabiting space today?
In the same daily rotations how many religions separate this species, same ancestries, by what they believe possible?

How many language barriers were intellectually created throughout history of this species being just 2 genders of an ever changing population never same conceptions twice in any combined generations of each ancestral lineage and generations gaps here today?


Why won't you accept all you have been since a fertilized cell became the infant you were at birth? When has your boy ever duplicated itself since a fertilized cell daily here? Simple compounding chromosomes in every cell your body reproduced since conception into current events.

Rare to fine anyone honest about their own time lived since conception in any reality trying to prove now isn't eternity factually.