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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1559142)	9/15/2025 10:54:30 AM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583843

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1559142)	9/15/2025 12:24:04 PM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583843

What you're saying is so limited in thought. Really?? You don't have a clue. I attended WSU, a land grant university in Pullman Washington state. Huge Ag department and a great veterinary school along with a number of other sciences and degree programs. I developed a number of friends from nearby farms who kids attended the school in the Inland Empire. I worked part time in engineering at the PBS station, KWSU-TV and radio that the school started up many decades earlier. I even had the pleasure of airing the Senate Watergate hearings live on PBS in the afternoons after my engineering classes working as a Master control engineer at the tv station and was fortunate to be one of the highest paid students on campus! And then after graduating with a BSEE I was hired full time as an engineer at the station and had the pleasure of putting together a one hour weekly show for farmers that aired in Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon along with a number of other programs that aired on the PBS network. So to this day I remain in contact with many of these farmers who took over from their parents and I am fortunate to have a good understanding of the problems they all face today. What I find incredibly disturbing today is the fact many farms require migrant workers to manage and harvest their crops and now that many of these temporary workers are not showing up farms here in the Northwest and other areas of the country are experiencing loss of crops because the manpower to harvest them no longer exists. Trump doesn't have a clue of the massive impacts to farmers that didn't exist just a few years ago.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1559142)	9/15/2025 1:38:28 PM
From: Heywood40	Respond to of 1583843

You're not? If so, that will be a change.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1559142)	9/15/2025 1:59:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1583843

Augustus, you want to absolve the president for failing to reverse what you agree is a long-term negative trend in the family farm business. Yet that's EXACTLY why said family farms voted for him in the first place. They believe Trump can reverse that trend because he fight fight fights hard for them. If that's the best response you can muster to Eric and anyone else who presents the facts to you, then you are in denial. It's no wonder you told Eric not to reply. Tenchusatsu

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1559142)	9/15/2025 9:31:45 PM
From: Heywood40	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1583843

China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers Since President Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods in February, Beijing has retaliated by halting all purchases of American soybeans. That decision has had devastating repercussions for farmers in North Dakota, which exported more than 70 percent of its soybeans to China before Trump unveiled the new tariffs this year. Unless China agrees to restart its purchases as part of a trade deal, farmers that depend on the Chinese market will be facing steep losses that could fuel farm bankruptcies and farm foreclosures around the United States. That's North Dakota... Wisconsin will be fine. Right? Soybean Production in WisconsinCurrent Statistics Total Production (2024): 102 million bushels Acreage Planted (2025): 1.90 million acres Average Yield: 48 bushels per acre Economic Impact Value of Production: Approximately $1.3 billion