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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6096482" data-attributes="member: 48469">Why would our farmers have needed a bailout then but they wouldn’t now?[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-farmer-bailout-legacy-trade-135241986.html[/URL]Trump&#039;s massive farmer bailout failed to make up for the &#039;self-inflicted&#039; trade damage“The <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trade-war-hurt-world-us-china-154052679.html" target="_blank">U.S.-China trade war</a> caused deep damage to many <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/farmers-trade-war-hope-195017847.html" target="_blank">American farmers</a> and their livelihoods.And while President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to distribute billions of dollars in <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-farmers-trade-war-200125450.html" target="_blank">aid to farmers</a> across the country, mostly through the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), that historic bailout did not make up for the significant drop in business that many farmers experienced.“It will be difficult for us to get back to the levels of agricultural exports to China that we saw before the trade war began,” Mike Stranz, vice president of advocacy for the National Farmers Union, told Yahoo Finance. “Many of the crises that we faced, particularly on trade, were self-inflicted by the Trump administration, whether it was throwing NAFTA into jeopardy by our trading relationships with Canada, Mexico, by dismantling NAFTA and rebuilding USMCA, or taking us in the go-it-alone approach with China. Those crises came from within. Our administration chose to do that.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6096482, member: 48469"] Why would our farmers have needed a bailout then but they wouldn’t now? [URL unfurl="true"]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-farmer-bailout-legacy-trade-135241986.html[/URL] [B]Trump's massive farmer bailout failed to make up for the 'self-inflicted' trade damage[/B] “The [URL='https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trade-war-hurt-world-us-china-154052679.html']U.S.-China trade war[/URL] caused deep damage to many [URL='https://finance.yahoo.com/news/farmers-trade-war-hope-195017847.html']American farmers[/URL] and their livelihoods. And while President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to distribute billions of dollars in [URL='https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-farmers-trade-war-200125450.html']aid to farmers[/URL] across the country, mostly through the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), that historic bailout did not make up for the significant drop in business that many farmers experienced. “It will be difficult for us to get back to the levels of agricultural exports to China that we saw before the trade war began,” Mike Stranz, vice president of advocacy for the National Farmers Union, told Yahoo Finance. “Many of the crises that we faced, particularly on trade, were self-inflicted by the Trump administration, whether it was throwing NAFTA into jeopardy by our trading relationships with Canada, Mexico, by dismantling NAFTA and rebuilding USMCA, or taking us in the go-it-alone approach with China. Those crises came from within. Our administration chose to do that.” [/QUOTE]

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