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Botany

(73,846 posts)
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:26 AM Saturday

Attn Trump voting sorghum farmers. Don't you remember last time Krasnov lost you "the China market?"

China purchases a significant portion of the sorghum the United States grows, with estimates ranging from over 85% to 94% of U.S. sorghum exports going to China. For example, in 2023, approximately 94% of U.S. sorghum shipments went to China. China is the world's largest sorghum importer, importing more than all other countries combined.

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Good luck trying to get that market back this time. FAFO

Btw if you are a Trump voting farmer who has now lost your international market you should
receive zero $s in bail out money.

https://susancampbell.substack.com/p/the-leopard-eating-peoples-faces

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Attn Trump voting sorghum farmers. Don't you remember last time Krasnov lost you "the China market?" (Original Post) Botany Saturday OP
And don't forget Sorghum Sales to USAID BOSSHOG Saturday #1
No worries Traildogbob Saturday #2
I live in a farming community -- next door to a farm that (according to allegorical oracle Saturday #3
They don't really give a shit. He is giving them our tax dollars and starving Medicaid and Medicare. nt Jit423 Saturday #4
Seems many MAGArats didn't or don't understands tariffs and who pays for them. republianmushroom Saturday #5
Farmers can kick back and wait on their welfare checks Mysterian Saturday #6

BOSSHOG

(42,072 posts)
1. And don't forget Sorghum Sales to USAID
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:31 AM
Saturday

That ain’t dere no more (as they say in New Orleans.) The sorghum was only used to feed babies so no need for republicans to care. Last years sorghum crop in silos. This years crop planted. Trump signs still dot the countryside.

Traildogbob

(10,944 posts)
2. No worries
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:34 AM
Saturday

The people that pay taxes will bail them out. No SS fed taxes left for that so………rots of ruck!

allegorical oracle

(4,617 posts)
3. I live in a farming community -- next door to a farm that (according to
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:50 AM
Saturday

records) makes nearly $2 million/year. The farm owners vote reliably Repug. They know that if their product can't go to market (weather, politics, or whatever) they will be paid for that product -- either by the crop insurance they carry or via a $-billion gubmint reimbursement.

Some days I get fed up with all the "poor farmer" rhetoric. The farmers around me do fine -- even when they're screwed by the Repugs they voted for.

Jit423

(1,209 posts)
4. They don't really give a shit. He is giving them our tax dollars and starving Medicaid and Medicare. nt
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 10:11 AM
Saturday

Mysterian

(5,537 posts)
6. Farmers can kick back and wait on their welfare checks
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 12:53 PM
Saturday

Here's the last one:

https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/ag-economy/economic-loss-assistance-program-payments-passed-congress-heres-what-farme

Of course, the redneck Congress is already working on a big new welfare handout package for farmers, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, mostly from blue states, which are the economic powerhouse of the USA.

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