Hello I'm Nula McGovern on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, US election conversations,

farming and trucking.

As the United States prepares to choose its next president, we share conversations

with dairy farmers and truck drivers, including the changes they're seeing during their travels.

There's certain areas you can go to that's here on the west coast of the US that you see a lot of slums,

especially around downtown LA. You tend to see a lot of

homeless folks there.

In Oregon, you'll see the same thing up that way.

Over the last four years, I think it's actually increased a bit.

Farming contributes over 100 billion dollars to the US economy and when it comes to dairy farms

almost one in four of them can be found in Wisconsin. The so-called cheese state is also an important one in the election as no one knows

which political direction it will go.

So its votes could determine whether the next president will be Democrat,

Joe Biden, or remain Republican with Donald Trump.

And not surprisingly, the current president was keen to refer

to farmers in the second presidential debate. I just gave 28 billion dollars to

farmers. Taxpayers money. It's what? Taxpayers money. In

no no yeah the taxpayers it's called China. China paid 28 billion and you know what

they did to pay it Joe they devalued their currency and they also paid up.

And you know who got the money? Our farmers, our great farmers.

I spoke to three dairy farmers in Wisconsin, Jerry Volenek, a fifth generation dairy farmer in Monford, Lloyd

Halterman in Watertown. But first we'll hear from Mitch Brynig in Salk City

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