Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that there are no guarantees that smaller dairy farms will survive:
— Axios (@axios) October 2, 2019
"In America, the big get bigger and the small go out." https://t.co/lnKA0tdcEb
In Wisconsin, 1,200 dairy farms have gone out of business in the last 2 years. Here’s the sympathetic response from Trump’s Ag Secretary:
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 2, 2019
“In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.”https://t.co/5Scaieyv0h
It takes a rare fella to say so plainly that America is essentially a monopoly culture, and that the ultimate goal of a free market is to achieve the absolute minimal amount of actual competition. https://t.co/xVgIizVGMy
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 1, 2019
U.S. farmers receive $14.03 billion so far in government trade aid https://t.co/ZOO0AIU460 pic.twitter.com/Q7iRWjlLmy
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 2, 2019
NEW: In Iowa, farmers are turning on Trump. It's not just trade. Trump is undercutting ethanol
— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) October 1, 2019
"I supported Trump in the last election. Today, if the election were held, I don’t think I could vote for him,” said Kelly Nieuwenhuis, a corn & soybean farmerhttps://t.co/tUhKxR5E3x
This is a curious re-election message for farmers.
— Alex Wayne (@aawayne) October 1, 2019
(551 Wisconsin dairy farms have disappeared so far this year, up from 465 the year Trump took office.)https://t.co/5rQpcCO3sR
Trump's Ag secretary Sonny Perdue in visit to Wisconsin says dairy farms may need to get bigger to survive.
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) October 1, 2019
Wisconsin dairy farmer at Dem presser: "What I heard today from the secretary of agriculture was there's no place for me." https://t.co/5dabWBKSWj via @patrickdmarley
Farmers find another reason to get frustrated with President Trump https://t.co/Adnr1sNGVO pic.twitter.com/GKaxMk782k
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 29, 2019
Just so that you know where all this money is going: “More than 92% of the country’s 2.1 million farmers are non-Hispanic whites, and more than 86% of those farm operators are men.” https://t.co/X9s0vbfRwK
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) September 23, 2019
Sad! 