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Trump joint session speech: "So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. I love you too. I love you too."
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Who would have thought that elections have consequences, especially after the first time. Sounds like Mississippi farmer needs a different line of work. The military has plenty of work at the moment enforcing peace.
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Record [Australian] beef exports to the United States as prices soar ahead of 'grilling season'
Australia has exported 146,951 tonnes of beef to the United States this year, up 13 per cent on the first four months of 2025.It is understood to be a record start to any year, according to Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).
Mr Stuart said as demand rose, the US cattle herd continued to decline because of drought.
In a press conference this week, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the US cattle herd was expected to decline further.
"We have about 86.2 million head of cattle and calves in America. That is the lowest since the 1950s and this year we're looking to be slightly down again," Ms Rollins said.
[Surely climate change and drought can't be to blame!]
"The low herd size inherited by the Trump administration can be attributed to a variety of factors. The biggest one from our perspective is the radical left's ongoing assault against ranching as a way of life, using climate alarmism to wage a war on cattle in America."
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MOAR FOREIGN BEEF!
Trump frantically backtracks on core policy as beef prices skyrocket to record highs
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the highest tariff "on all beef-exporting nations" would be temporarily dismantled.Ranchers have culled their herds in response to prolonged drought and rising operational costs, which have constrained the overall supply of beef available to markets. Industry analysts point to climate challenges, particularly severe drought conditions in major cattle-producing states such as Texas and the Southwest, as a primary driver of reduced herd sizes and elevated prices.
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Kansas farmers hit hard by weather extremes and growing costs, wheat crop could be worst since 1972
Combined with climbing input costs related to fertilizer, diesel fuel and tariffs, longtime wheat farmers say they are feeling a lot of pain.
No, they are having a lot of fun!
Combined with climbing input costs related to fertilizer, diesel fuel and tariffs, longtime wheat farmers say they are feeling a lot of pain.
No, they are having a lot of fun!
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"Lifelong"?
How old is this guy? Are they interviewing 10yo's now?
But not if you have celiac.
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Well we can cross off climate change as reason why weather is becoming more chaotic, seeing climate change was a Chinese Hoax to steal American jobs the Trump family Mar A Largo crowd were giving them.
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Gulf shrimpers want help from Congress as fuel costs climb
These days, [this dude's shrimp boat] the Lacy Kay remains tied to the dock in Venice, Louisiana, about an hour's drive south of Port Sulphur, where Cooper is now piloting rented vessels, ferrying oil rig workers to and from the platforms that dot the Gulf. He's been shrimping since he was 15, working alongside his father before getting his first boat. He's still adjusting to having a boss instead of being one."I'm making money," Cooper said. "Not what I would be making, but you take what you can get."
He took the second job to help make ends meet after his fuel costs spiked more than half in just three months.
To break even now, Cooper says he needs to haul in at least a thousand pounds of shrimp every trip. This season, that's been hard to do. He said a cold front in May pushed a lot of shrimp out to open water, and with no marshland left to shelter them — lost to decades of coastal erosion — he said they don't come back.
Adjusted for inflation, dockside prices have fallen from over six dollars a pound forty years ago to under two dollars in 2023 — an all-time low. And Gulf shrimp revenue was more than halved between 2021 and 2023 from from $489 million to $221 million.
Cooper, for his part, voted for President Trump and said he supports the administration's broader goals — including the war with Iran.
"Help us with these fuel prices," he said. "We're farmers of the sea. We want something to fall back on when something like this happens, so we can be taken care of also."
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Farmers in Iowa are struggling in Trump’s economy, but many say they still support him
NBC News spoke to 13 farmers across Iowa this week. Eleven voted for Trump in the past and still largely back him, hoping “to God,” as one put it, “that he follows through” on his promises by the end of his term.Interviews with 13 Iowa farmers in the last week show that they’re burdened by rising costs, along with fluctuating prices they can’t control. Eleven voted for Trump in past elections. Mueller describes himself as a “pro-business Republican” and declined to say whether he backed Trump. Stu Swanson, who raises corn and soybeans in Galt, said he voted for Trump in the first two general elections and wrote in former Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s name in 2024.
“I know of five farmers across this state that have taken their lives since last fall,” Orr said. “I would assume that finances play a part in that. Being on the board, I talk to a lot of farmers from across the state, and the mental health of a lot of farmers is not good."
[Trump] invited hundreds of farmers and ranchers to the White House in March. Speaking from a balcony, with a gold tractor below him, he assured the gathering that they “once again have a true friend and champion in the Oval Office.”
Mueller was at the event that day, invited as president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association. He said that when he left the White House grounds, he overheard some ironic comments from farmers that surprised him, like: “Funny, I kind of remember making money during the Biden administration.”
Chad Hart, a crop market specialist at Iowa State University, said that 2021 and 2022, the first half of Biden’s term, were “some of the best years U.S. agriculture has seen in terms of net farm income.”
Most of the Iowa farmers who spoke to NBC News don’t regret supporting Trump. When he speaks, he’s unfiltered and raw and sounds nothing like a more conventional politician, they said. That’s what they like about him.
“He tells it the way it is,” said Rehder, who voted for Trump in all three presidential elections.
Corey Winterfeld, whose family farms corn and soybeans on more than 5,500 acres in northwest Iowa, estimates that the operation burns through 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel a day during two months of harvest season.
Since the war with Iran started, the price of diesel has jumped from $3.75 per gallon to more than $5.50.
Tit-for-tat tariffs cut U.S. farm exports to China by nearly $15 billion from March 2025 to February, the report showed.
“It’s going to get ugly for a while, but in the long run, it’s going to help us,” said Loren Van Regenmorter, Arda’s husband. “Trump is the first president we’ve had in a long time that will stand up to China, because China just runs all over us.”
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US farmers seek firmer soybean guarantees despite Xi-Trump agriculture pledge
American growers welcome China’s renewed buying commitments, but vague terms and tariff concerns cloud optimism
Trump left Beijing without any concrete agricultural announcements, much less one about US farmers’ biggest export.
Instead, a general commitment about US agricultural products surfaced two days later in a brief White House readout, leaving some US farmers wary over the lack of detail despite welcoming the renewed pledge.
“We want to make sure that there is a commitment that’s got some teeth in it,” said Darin Johnson, a fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer from Minnesota, after the readout came out.
“We would prefer to have some sort of signed agreement to make sure they are fully committed to it.”
This year has been especially tough. The Iran war continues to hurt the industry, with fuel and fertiliser prices having shot up 40 per cent since it began, Burrier explained.
Despite the renewed commitments between Trump and Xi, farmers remain wary after years of tariff-driven volatility. When Trump returned to office in 2025, he made tariffs a signature focus of his second term agenda.
At the height of the trade war, soybean purchases from China – once the largest buyer of US soybeans – fell to almost zero.
“My stance has always been that tariffs hurt us,” Burrier said, adding that “they absolutely hurt the American farmer because they take demand away.”
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'At our doorstep': Flesh-eating parasite closing in on red state after Trump-backed cuts
The New World screwworm, the larval stage of a parasitic fly known for laying eggs inside livestock animals and letting the maggots chew their way out, could cause massive damage to cattle herds. In the past, the U.S. managed to work together with Mexico to drive back screwworms, but they have been expanding their territory recently.In an urgent public letter, GOP state Rep. Don McLaughlin outlined the danger to the state — and demanded immediate action.
"For more than a year, I have joined Texas ranchers in sounding the alarm while federal regulators have moved at a snail's pace," McLaughlin said in the statement.
Attorney Blake Allen weighed in on the matter: "Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest."
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I guess Elon figured the "free market" would pick up the slack.
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boy... if there's a better metaphor for MAGA, I haven't seen it.
"The New World Screwworms" sounds like the name of Elmo's Overwatch team.
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