Farm Aid

The Western Producer

Iowa farmers want Trump, despite talk of more trade wars

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) — Republican farmers in Iowa say they want Donald Trump as their U.S. president, buoyed by the historic sums of money his administration handed out to farms and despite his talk of trade wars that could tank already stifled U.S. agricultural exports.
 Farmers are a politically powerful voting bloc whom Trump...

January 25, 2024

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Poland pledges aid for farmers as PM slams EU response

Warsaw | Reuters -- European Union measures to help farmers affected by a glut of Ukrainian food imports are too little too late, the Polish prime minister said on Friday, after the government approved 10 billion zlotys (C$3.23 billion) in aid for Polish agriculture. Central European countries are trying to thrash out a deal with...

April 21, 2023

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USDA can steer farm aid money to fight climate change, Vilsack says

Reuters -- The White House wants to tap a pool of funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC) to support on-farm efforts to fight climate change, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden's nominee to run the USDA, said Tuesday. The Depression-era program of up to $30 billion in annual funding was tapped...

February 2, 2021

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Hog farmers face prolonged pain as pandemic gives way to glut

Winnipeg | Reuters -- North America's hog farmers face prolonged pain beyond the COVID-19 pandemic that has interrupted packing plants , as a pig glut in the U.S. holds prices low and pressures producers to downsize. Many North American hogs had nowhere to go in spring as slaughter plants suspended production due to workers becoming...

August 28, 2020

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No need for more U.S. farm aid after China deal, Perdue says

Austin | Reuters -- With China poised to increase purchases of U.S. agricultural goods this year as part of a Phase One trade deal, the U.S. agriculture secretary said on Monday there is no need for a third year of trade-related aid for farmers. Farmers have increasingly relied on aid from the U.S. government to...

January 20, 2020

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U.S. farmers expected to get third and final tranche of trade aid

Washington | Reuters -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said he expected the federal government to pay farmers a third and final tranche of 2019 trade aid a day after an initial deal with China was signed, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Washington and Beijing signed the Phase One pact on Wednesday, setting trade tensions between...

January 16, 2020