Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.
Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.
he also bailed them out, but this time he has no reason to bail them out, he wants thier land now.
It was mostly the big corp farms that benefited in the end. Many smaller farms that had been family-owned for generations weren’t so lucky.
Worse, farmer mental health declined and suicides increased.
Trump: Hey my policies killed lots of people during my first term. I’ll do that again, only this time on a massive scale!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/08/30/amid-trump-tariffs-farm-bankruptcies-and-suicides-rise/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_farmer_bailouts