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https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/pr ... ted-unfair Farmers who qualify for the FBA Program can expect payments to be released by February 28, 2026. Eligible farmers should ensure their 2025 acreage reporting is factual and accurate by 5pm ET on December 19, 2025. Commodity-specific payment rates will be released by the end of the month. Crop insurance linkage will not be required for the FBA Program; however, USDA strongly urges producers to take advantage of the new OBBBA risk management tools to best protect against price risk and volatility in the future.The remaining $1 billion of the $12 billion in bridge payments will be reserved for commodities not covered in the FBA Program such as specialty crops and sugar, for example, though details including timelines for those payments are still under development and require additional understanding of market impacts and economic needs.The $12 billion in farmer bridge payments, including those provided through the FBA Program, are authorized under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act and will be administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA).To submit questions, justification for USDA farmer bridge aid, or to request a meeting on farmer bridge aid, producers can reach out to farmerbridge@usda.gov.“Four years under the failed Biden Administration continues to leave the American farm economy reeling from record inflation, a depleted farm safety net, and delayed disaster assistance. The lack of new trade deals under the last Administration turned a trade surplus under Trump into a $50 billion trade deficit,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

nope china did not buy from american farmers because of TRUMP'S tariffs.

so american farmers lost all their income.
 

jerrab » 20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/pr ... ted-unfair Farmers who qualify for the FBA Program can expect payments to be released by February 28, 2026. Eligible farmers should ensure their 2025 acreage reporting is factual and accurate by 5pm ET on December 19, 2025. Commodity-specific payment rates will be released by the end of the month. Crop insurance linkage will not be required for the FBA Program; however, USDA strongly urges producers to take advantage of the new OBBBA risk management tools to best protect against price risk and volatility in the future.The remaining $1 billion of the $12 billion in bridge payments will be reserved for commodities not covered in the FBA Program such as specialty crops and sugar, for example, though details including timelines for those payments are still under development and require additional understanding of market impacts and economic needs.The $12 billion in farmer bridge payments, including those provided through the FBA Program, are authorized under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act and will be administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA).To submit questions, justification for USDA farmer bridge aid, or to request a meeting on farmer bridge aid, producers can reach out to farmerbridge@usda.gov.“Four years under the failed Biden Administration continues to leave the American farm economy reeling from record inflation, a depleted farm safety net, and delayed disaster assistance. The lack of new trade deals under the last Administration turned a trade surplus under Trump into a $50 billion trade deficit,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

nope china did not buy from american farmers because of TRUMP'S tariffs.

so american farmers lost all their income.

https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-soybean ... be-enough/

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/ ... ort-shows/
Ohio farmers see one-year, 74% loss in Chinese sales due largely to Trump tariffs, report shows

////Combined with other factors, President Donald Trump’s big tariffs on Chinese goods are costing Ohio farmers and their counterparts in other states heavily, according to a new report.The report shows Ohio farmers lost nearly $76 million of their exports to China this year compared to one year earlier.Tariffs are taxes on imports, and since the start of his second term, Trump has imposed a shifting array of them on every country in the world — except Russia for some reason, according to the Atlantic Council’s Tariff Tracker.Economists have said the unpredictability of the measures has slowed some business investment because decision-makers can’t plan. And surveys conducted by the Federal Bank of Cleveland show that regional businesses are seeing higher input costs from them and many are raising prices for their customers.YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE.
SUPPORTThat’s not helpful as Republicans struggle to deal with a national affordability crisis.Farmers have faced a double whammy. They’ve seen many of their costs go up because of the import taxes. Meanwhile, China — the country’s third-largest trading partner — stopped purchases of American soybeans in May before resuming them last month. The stoppage was in retaliation for the tariffs Trump imposed that now are at 20%, according to the tariff tracker.That could do lasting harm to Ohio soybean producers by pushing China to grow and cement its trade ties with Brazil — another major producer.Trump imposed 5 Meanwhile, China — the country’s third-largest trading partner — stopped purchases of American soybeans in May before resuming them last month. The stoppage was in retaliation for the tariffs Trump imposed that now are at 20%, according to the tariff tracker.That could do lasting harm to Ohio soybean producers by pushing China to grow and cement its trade ties with Brazil — another major producer.Trump imposed 50% tariffs on the South American country in retaliation for imprisoning an authoritarian president who attempted a coup.Ohio farmers are feeling the pain.Steady trade relations with China had already been roiled during the first Trump administration, according to Farm Flavor, a media organization that reports on agriculture. 
 

jerrab » 20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm

 china did not buy from american farmers because of TRUMP'S tariffs.

so american farmers lost all their income.

   
 

https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-soybean ... be-enough/

Tennessee soybean farmers predict Trump’s $12B aid package won’t be enough


///////December 19, 2025
Rose GilbertWPLN News
Emily Hutchinson in the final weeks of soybean harvest season at her family's farm in Middle Tennessee.
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FacebookThreadsXThe trade war between the United States and China has made for a rocky soybean harvest season. The Trump administration announced a $12 billion aid package for farmers to try and make up for the ensuing shortfalls, but farmers still expect to lose money on this year’s crop.Will Hutchinson is a fourth-generation farmer. He grew up working on his family’s farm in Middle Tennessee with his father, which he now runs with his sister.“Whether my kids want to come back and farm, that’ll be totally up to them. It’s certainly a labor of love and it would become a prison of misery if you didn’t make that decision yourself,” he said.Farming always involves a certain amount of risk: you can’t always know when a storm or a bad drought will wreck your crop. Hutchinson said that since the coronavirus pandemic, inflation has continued to drive up his costs. Now, tariffs are adding new uncertainties.

 Soybeans are Tennessee’s number one crop, and China has been, by far, their number one buyer. But that changed when Trump announced heavy tariffs against them earlier this year — right in the middle of harvest season.“It just hit us at a very, very delicate time in our season. Time of year is just extremely important to our business, so that part really stung,” he said.

 
 

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It set a precedent,” said Andrew Muhammad, a professor of agricultural policy at the University of Tennessee. He explained that Trump’s first trade war in 2018 caught everyone off guard, including China. But since then, China has been decreasing its reliance on American exports.

“It appears that the Chinese for quite some time have developed supply chains with South America, and so therefore they’re much more reliant on Brazilian soybeans than American soybeans, unlike say four or five years ago,” he said.

//////In October, Trump reached a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping to lower tariffs and resume purchases of American soybeans, but those sales haven’t materialized yet.

We’ve been through this before. During the first Trump administration, the president levied tariffs against China, causing China to retaliate with tariffs against American soybeans.

“It set a precedent,” said Andrew Muhammad, a professor of agricultural policy at the University of Tennessee. He explained that Trump’s first trade war in 2018 caught everyone off guard, including China. But since then, China has been decreasing its reliance on American exports.

“It appears that the Chinese for quite some time have developed supply chains with South America, and so therefore they’re much more reliant on Brazilian soybeans than American soybeans, unlike say four or five years ago,” he said.

In other words, they don’t need our soybeans as much. And Muhammad said those new supply chains could be a lot harder to undo than the tariffs themselves, wh

*GHETTOBLASTER » 20 Dec 2025, 12:21 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:21 pm

 

I know....  
 

////Maupin added that groups like the Tennessee Soybean Promotion Council and the American Soybean Association are also exploring other uses for soybeans, including biofuel. But all of that takes time. Maupin worries that farmers may not be able to afford to plant as many acres in the coming year, or that some might not be able to afford to continue farming at all.

And, ideally, planning for next year’s crop rotation needs to be in place by Christmas Day.

“Going into this holiday season, I can assure you there is no extra money. They have lost money again this year. So it would be as if you only got paid one time a year and you came to this time of year and your employer said, ‘I’m sorry, there’s not gonna be paychecks. Let’s hope it gets better next year.’”
 

jerrab » 20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/pr ... ted-unfair Farmers who qualify for the FBA Program can expect payments to be released by February 28, 2026. Eligible farmers should ensure their 2025 acreage reporting is factual and accurate by 5pm ET on December 19, 2025. Commodity-specific payment rates will be released by the end of the month. Crop insurance linkage will not be required for the FBA Program; however, USDA strongly urges producers to take advantage of the new OBBBA risk management tools to best protect against price risk and volatility in the future.The remaining $1 billion of the $12 billion in bridge payments will be reserved for commodities not covered in the FBA Program such as specialty crops and sugar, for example, though details including timelines for those payments are still under development and require additional understanding of market impacts and economic needs.The $12 billion in farmer bridge payments, including those provided through the FBA Program, are authorized under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act and will be administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA).To submit questions, justification for USDA farmer bridge aid, or to request a meeting on farmer bridge aid, producers can reach out to farmerbridge@usda.gov.“Four years under the failed Biden Administration continues to leave the American farm economy reeling from record inflation, a depleted farm safety net, and delayed disaster assistance. The lack of new trade deals under the last Administration turned a trade surplus under Trump into a $50 billion trade deficit,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

nope china did not buy from american farmers because of TRUMP'S tariffs.

so american farmers lost all their income.

no 12 billion dollars tax payer bailout would have been necessary  for the american farmers if not for trumps tariffs

Hmm, I'm gonna see if we can get a slice of that $12 billion.

Thanks for the info jerra!

and to top it off trump gives argentina 20 billion dollars.

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In late 2025, the U.S. government, under the Trump administration, provided $20 billion in financial support to Argentina through a currency swap line (loan) from the U.S. Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund. This was part of a larger, ultimately scaled-back, plan for a total financial support package of up to $40 billion, with the second half intended to come from private banks and sovereign wealth funds.
 
 

Fuelman » 20 Dec 2025, 12:51 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:51 pm

Hmm, I'm gonna see if we can get a slice of that $12 billion.

Thanks for the info jerra!

are you a soyben farmer if not you don't get any of the money.

///////////////////Combined with a promise (not yet fulfilled) to nearly quadruple U.S. imports of Argentinean beef, the bailout amounted to a major intervention in a foreign country’s economic and political affairs at the direct expense of U.S. taxpayers. The intervention came as a lifeline to Trump’s ally, Argentinean President Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian and close friend of the MAGA movement. Milei’s party faced tough midterm elections in October, but it outperformed expectations — something analysts in Argentina attribute largely to Trump’s help.

The $20 billion came in the form of a currency swap line, essentially a loan straight from the U.S. Treasury that gave Argentina’s central bank access to dollars it can use to prop up its own currency. The loan, as well as the promised beef imports, drew outrage from some Republicans on Capitol Hill, who criticized the moves for straying from Trump’s stated “America First” principles.

“I am against bailing out any countries,” Sen. Rand Paul told reporters at the time. “If we had an extra $20 billion lying around, we should put it towards our own debt.”


https://www.ms.now/news/how-20-billion- ... y-strategy
 

/////////////////So who benefits from the bailout — other than Milei? De Bolle and other economists say that the actors best positioned to take advantage of a bailout are hedge funds and other big, international investors, which are historically invested in sovereign debt from emerging markets and can quickly move around large amounts of money.

Several press reports in both the U.S. and Argentina have singled out hedge fund manager Robert Citrone, co-founder of Discovery Capital Management and a former colleague of Bessent’s, as one investor who stands to benefit from the deal. Other firms that have historically held large positions in Argentinean debt include BlackRock and Pimco. The Financial Times, meanwhile, reported that several London-based hedge funds posted substantial profits from investments in Argentina in the wake of the bailout.

Although the bailout helped Milei politically, many Argentineans remain skeptical.

At a wholesale market on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Ana Noble, a small-business owner, said many people are struggling economically even after Milei’s reforms. And the U.S. bailout would do nothing to help, she said.

jerrab » 20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:12 pm

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/pr ... ted-unfair Farmers who qualify for the FBA Program can expect payments to be released by February 28, 2026. Eligible farmers should ensure their 2025 acreage reporting is factual and accurate by 5pm ET on December 19, 2025. Commodity-specific payment rates will be released by the end of the month. Crop insurance linkage will not be required for the FBA Program; however, USDA strongly urges producers to take advantage of the new OBBBA risk management tools to best protect against price risk and volatility in the future.The remaining $1 billion of the $12 billion in bridge payments will be reserved for commodities not covered in the FBA Program such as specialty crops and sugar, for example, though details including timelines for those payments are still under development and require additional understanding of market impacts and economic needs.The $12 billion in farmer bridge payments, including those provided through the FBA Program, are authorized under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act and will be administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA).To submit questions, justification for USDA farmer bridge aid, or to request a meeting on farmer bridge aid, producers can reach out to farmerbridge@usda.gov.“Four years under the failed Biden Administration continues to leave the American farm economy reeling from record inflation, a depleted farm safety net, and delayed disaster assistance. The lack of new trade deals under the last Administration turned a trade surplus under Trump into a $50 billion trade deficit,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

nope china did not buy from american farmers because of TRUMP'S tariffs.

so american farmers lost all their income.

Stupid bish never heard of the paragraph and knows NOTHING but what media feeds in her daily media enema.
 

Your TDS is raging, Seek help.

dont expect farmers to vote for trump's henchmen during midterms.

Fuelman » 20 Dec 2025, 12:51 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:51 pm

Hmm, I'm gonna see if we can get a slice of that $12 billion.

Thanks for the info jerra!

maybe go  to argentina if you want money  from trump

his new name is el trumpo.

MR-7 » 20 Dec 2025, 12:35 pm » wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2025, 12:35 pm

I know....

Most farmers in this day and age are HOBBY FARMERS who work their land as a side job.
They get to "write off" depreciation on their assets and operating expenses..so on paper it looks like they only make $200 per year.......  [or nothing at all.]....  
In the meantime there are many full scale farmers in the USA who are still doing very well....so jerrab's claim that ALL FARMERS ARE BROKE is another one of that little monkey's lies.....  
What makes so many  ****** like jerrab such pathological liars...?
It must be their lack of impulse control and ability to foresee bad outcomes for their deceitful actions.
These sub human standard character flaws are linked to the poorly evolved  pre frontal cortex that is common with ******.