This should be a bigger story. More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.
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This should be a bigger story. More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.
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The result is exactly what farmers feared: fewer buyers, less stability, and more farms disappearing. This didn’t have to happen. farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/02/numb...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/16/t... Trump keeps screwing farmers and they still voted for him.
It's nothing new. Trump did the same thing in his first term. The farmers still voted for him in 2020 and 2024. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I would guess these are small, family run farms.These farms are small businesses and they are affected, like all small businesses in the U.S.,by all the terrible economic policies of the Trump administration.The largest cost increase to these farmers is the loss of their health insurance tax credit.
The number of farms decreased in every economic category except for farms making $1M or more in sales each year, which saw a minor increase of 50 farms. Farms making $1K-$9,999 in sales posted the largest loss of any category, falling by 8000 farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/02/numb...
How much more of this "winning" are American farmers willing to take? Why are they so goddamned stupid? "America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%. " investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t...
It's devastating. Contrary to popular misunderstanding--and some lies promoted by agribiz pals in the administration, "Almost all farms in the United States (96 percent) are family farms and they account for the majority (83 percent) of the value of farm production."