by There were a few dangerous years for the Red Fire Farm in West Massachusetts.
Since the pandemic, the rising interest rates, work and seed costs for the 200 hectare product farm have had a spiral challenge for owners Ryan and Sarah Voiland.
After the Farm’s barn had been used up again from scratch from scratch last year since 2001, the Farm’s barn took the business, a tractor, irrigation equipment and tools with them.
This year, Ryan had hoped that a grant of $ 125,000 as part of the Rural Energy for America program would help build a solar canopy system and a allowance of $ 40,000 to spread autumn sheet loyalty from nearby cities in its fields, to compensate for the constantly growing cooling and the fertile costs of the farm.
But in January, the Trump government has billions of state funding from Biden from Biden-era in a one way from Biden-Eara.
“If something is signed and pulled together, it is simply unfair to [the government] To lift something in which farmers are already investing, ”he said.
“It leaves farmers for thousands of dollars on the hook.”
This prompted Voiland to join an Erdjustice lawsuit against the US Agricultural Ministry that requests that a judicial order against the refusal of the administration to be cleared up.
American farmers are not unused for the impulses of Donald Trump, who in his first presidency performed a trade war with China, who had a negative impact on the exports of US pork and soybeans. At that time, however, many farmers largely remained above water due to a 28 -MR dollar handout.
Today there are no signs of checks in the post for farmers.
Trump has proposed that farmers should come into force “a little adaptation time” with more mutual tariffs in China, Mexico, Canada and European countries on Tuesday.
This comes at a time when agriculture is facing major challenges on the local producer or in the raw material harvest.
The demand from China, rising land prices and Trump’s threats to reduce visas for foreign agricultural workers, have largely conducted one of the most productive agricultural economies in the world. John Deere, the machine manufacturer, has replaced thousands of jobs in the middle west in the middle west, since the economic struggles of farmers are driven. The imports of agricultural products that US farmers can undermine have never been so high.
And while cattle breeders and farmers make up a small part of the wider US economy, their fights could have significant effects: 10% of all US workers are part of agriculture.
Agricultural groups begin to express concerns about Trump’s hard tariff approach across the country.
“Trade policy must be associated with real, material protection for the directly affected farmers,” said Rob Larew, President of the National Farmers Union.
“We have heard that there is a strategy – now we have to see it. Promises alone will not pay for the bills or the farms will be kept alive.”
With around 20% of all US agricultural production after overseas, some agronomists fear that the ruictions caused by the Trump government could pay the developmental relationships for relationships and that in particular could affect American farmers American corn and soybeans.
“It was a very good relationship with Mexico. But if this situation gets out of control in this tariff, I would not be surprised that you hear from Mexico within five years [to facilitate imports from countries other than the US]”, Said Jim McCormick, a co-founder of Agmarket.net, an agricultural marketing and consulting company based in Missouri.
“The best thing you can do is to build a trade relationship that works well for both countries. It works well for Mexico – you get cheap food supply – and it works well for the American producer – we overproduce in the USA. This is the reality – we are built to feed the world.”
In recent years, China, the world’s largest importer of soybeans, which until recently comes from American farmers, has built up a new trade relationship with Brazil as the direct result of the trade war of the first Trump government.
Brazil quickly expanded its soybean culture into the largest producer in the world with 40% of the global share and is the third largest corn producer in the world. The mild climate enables two harvest a year and has clarified thousands of square miles Savannah and Wald for harvest breeding.
In November, China opened in Chancay, Peru, a huge port that was paid by China to give Beijing easier access to South American products.
“My fear is that it will negotiate with these countries much harder than what people think,” said McCormick. “The first goes around [in 2017] We only fought against China. Now we are pretty much fighting for the world. It could be very volatile. “
Nevertheless, the farmers have largely supported the president. In the country’s 444 agricultural districts, Trump won 77.7% of the votes in the presidential election last November, compared to 73% in 2016 and 76% in 2020.
Raw material harvest producers will be made available this month for a certain relief with USD $ 10 billion for the support of a program signed during the bid administration.
“I think the farmers are not exactly enthusiastic about the economic situation in which we are currently, but they still believe that he has their back,” said McCormick and added that whether the tariffs will be brought into harmony on April 2 or not, a broader feeling for the white house. “You will wait and see.”
On the Red Fire Farm, who uses around 75 employees in its food subscription, U-pick and wholesale operations, feelings of hope and fear during the summer season, how the Voilands prepare for the vegetation period in 2025. Construction of a new barn is in the works, although its financial effects are worrying, says Ryan.
Another reason for concern is the cancellation of the Trump administration of USD 1 billion worth 1 billion USD for the financing of food for food banks and schools worth 1 billion USD, which meet producers such as Voiland and in-Need consumers alike.
However, the pressure from calls and e -mails contributed to the fact that a small nature conservation grant from the Voilands and other farmers who were previously frozen in January are revived last month.
“I wanted to do everything to fight back and resist him,” said Voiland, “both for my farm and for the general well -being of agriculture”.
