What are these insects on pole butterbeans?
12.07.2024 - 16:39 / modernfarmer.com
In the 2018 midterm elections, Republicans lost support in agricultural counties that suffered from retaliatory tariffs in President Donald Trump’s trade wars.
Since then, the Trump administration has doled out a record amount in bailouts to farmers to offset losses brought on by trade disruptions and the pandemic. Recent polls would suggest that these subsidies might be paying off, as the president’s support among farmers has reportedly surged back.
All along the campaign trail, Trump has bragged about the bailouts his administration has sent to farmers. In this year alone, researchers estimate the United States Department of Agriculture will distribute $46 billion to farmers. In 2019, the Trump administration paid $14.4 billion to farmers suffering from the president’s trade wars. These payments largely favored larger farms in the Midwest and the South in what observers say were attempts to shore up Trump’s rural base.
“Had the president not found some way to make up at least part of the loss that the trade war caused, I think the support would be much more in jeopardy,” says Ken Cook, the president of the Environmental Working Group, an organization that runs a database tracking all farm subsidies that have been distributed since 1995.
Farmers overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016, and researchers say that support will likely hold this year, in part thanks to these payments, and despite the continued rise in farm bankruptcies. A Farm Futures poll in July found that 75 percent of farmers intended to vote for Trump. This was a significant jump from a poll the company conducted in 2018, which found only 60 percent of farmers would commit to casting a ballot for the president. In a Farm Journal Pulse poll this
What are these insects on pole butterbeans?
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