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Let's talk about why farmers are rejecting Trump’s plans....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about why farmers are rejecting Trump’s plans....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

0:05.0

So today, we're going to talk about why farmers are rejecting Trump's plans.

0:12.0

Well, as pretty much every economist predicted, Trump's trade war turned out to be ruinous for American agriculture.

0:20.0

Again, his tariffs were such an

0:23.9

abject failure that America's farmers need a bailout. Again. They haven't needed a bailout like

0:31.4

this since, well, the last time Trump was in office. Shortly after, Trump announcing the use of billions of U.S. tax

0:40.9

dollars to pay for the economic damage he caused came out, farmers started pushing back.

0:47.6

It's led to questions like this. Bell, why are soybean farmers saying the bailout isn't enough? I'm sure you'll cover this,

0:57.9

but the estimates I see say the industry will lose about $7 billion. The bailout is 12. Is this a bailout

1:06.0

to big ag donors and another Trump scam? Okay, so first, pretty much all agriculture bailouts benefit big ag.

1:16.4

Why?

1:17.4

Because after years of policies like this, the small-time farmer is becoming less and less

1:23.3

of a thing.

1:24.7

They're driven under and big producers buy them up and then hedge fund billionaires

1:30.5

claim to be soybean farmers. But that's not why a lot of the farmers are mad. Let's start with this.

1:39.1

Trump announced a deal and said China was going to buy their normal rate by the end of the year. That turned out

1:46.1

to be a lie. They've now pushed the deadline to purchase them back months, which means next

1:53.4

year's numbers are off too. So there's that. But the biggest reason is that they've already read the fine print.

2:03.3

It's not 12 billion for soybean farmers, even though that's the headline.

2:09.3

That's for all row crop farmers, not just soybean.

2:14.8

Half of all U.S. farms are losing money. Also, it's not 12 billion. It's 11 billion.

2:22.3

Because even though they announced 12, they're holding a billion back. John Bartman, a soybean

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