Soybean farmer welcomes Trump aid, hopes for freer markets

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While rural areas remain conservative bastions, farmers' patience with Washington is wearing thin. Several of them described the government bailout, an echo of similar policies during Trump's first term, as a welcome stopgap that doesn't do enough to stabilize the agricultural industry.

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00:00What my reality is, is that while crop prices are depressed and they're down about 15 to 20%

00:09for corn and soybeans since 2021, kind of the COVID pandemic, we're also seeing an inflation

00:16on our input costs. Herbicides, a lot of those are imported from China. We've got fertilizers

00:22that are imported from Canada. We really want to see that stuff opened up to allow us to run our

00:27business. Really, that bridge is just what it says it is. It's a bridge. It's not the ultimate solution

00:34we're looking for. What we really want to have is a little more certainty and not have to rely on these

00:39ad hoc payments. And there's a little bit of magic that's involved with the faith that it takes to put

00:46a little bit of fertilizer and some seed out there and seeing that grow, hopefully your risks pay off

00:53and bringing that crop in.

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