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Opinion - Trump's empty promises and the ruin of rural America
President Trump’s second term has been nothing if not a laundry list of broken promises. But few Americans have suffered more from Trump’s deceptions than the nation’s struggling farmers. It’s no secret that family farms have had a rough go of it over the past decade. An average of 373 farms have failed every year since 2015. The stress of simply surviving has led to a nationwide mental health crisis in resource-starved farming communities.Trump captured 62 percent of the rural vote in 2024, 4 points better than his performance in 2020, based largely on promises to lavish prosperity (and federal money) on small farms on the verge of collapse.Like so many Trump promises, the help never arrived. The suicide rate in rural communities is now 3.5 times the national average and climbing. Farmers buckle under the financial strain of crippling agricultural tariffs, rising input costs and a president who didn’t bother to mention them once in his most recent State of the Union address.After years of loyalty to a Republican Party that has worsened their lives, rural voters are finally weighing their options ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. Are Democrats ready to seize the moment? Trump’s plummeting national approval rating recently scraped a record low amid voter frustration with rising prices and the ongoing war in Iran. The economic hangover effects of his economic mismanagement aren’t lost on rural Americans. His tariffs on agricultural products decimated demand for U.S.-grown crops, with Chinese imports of American soybeans plummeting nearly 80 percent. The situation is severe enough that the American Soybean Association, an industry trade group, took the rare step of publicly criticizing the administration for misleading farmers about future Chinese purchases.Tariffs on steel, rubber and replacement parts mean farmers are also paying more to keep their machinery working. Some imported replacement parts are no longer available at all, and the costs of buying new equipment are enough to send some small farms into debt. The average price of a new tractor was roughly $190,000 in 2019; today, a similar tractor retails for about $330,000. Operational costs are also rising at the same time international crop sales are falling, squeezing farmers who are already barely breaking even. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and disruptions in the global natural gas market have driven a spike in fertilizer costs from roughly $795 to nearly $1,000 per ton. Farm eq...
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