Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about

ag leaders, warning of a Trump-induced farm crisis. A bipartisan group of commodity

organization chiefs, farm leaders, and former USDA officials sent Congress a letter.

The letter is pretty scathing in its review of Trump's policies and warns of the, quote,

collapse of American agriculture. Before we get into the content of the letter, I want to kind

to highlight the broad cross-section

of the agriculture industry that signed on to it. You have former presidents or chairs of,

the National Corn Growers Association, National Barley Growers Association, American Soybean Association,

Renewable Fuels Association, National Pork Producers Council, National Milk Producers Federation, U.S. Grains Council, Farm Foundation,

the Illinois Farm Bureau. And there's a whole other page. But I think you get the point.

This isn't just one crop or one association.

This is American agriculture.

So what's the letter say you may ask?

I think the most direct part is, quote,

The policies of this administration have caused tremendous harm to U.S.

agriculture. I know I point out pretty often that not all of agriculture is Republican,

but I will admit it's most. So what's responsible for this pretty dramatic shift? After pointing

out that farmer bankruptcies have doubled,

barely half of all farms will be profitable this year. The letter goes on to list the impacts

and the blame. Quote, there are few tragedies greater than the loss of a family farm,

representing not just a loss of livelihood, but a loss of a way of life for rural families. And when American farmers suffer,

the entire rural economy is impacted, from schools to churches to Main Street businesses. We need to

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