USDA considering economic aid for farmers this fall, says secretary

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

September 15, 2025 12:55 PM EDT Updated 2 hours ago


WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with Congress to evaluate whether economic aid might be needed for the nation's farmers this autumn amid trade disputes and record-high yields, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Monday.

U.S. farmers have missed out on billions in soybean sales to China as stalled trade talks halt exports, and the USDA's recent forecast of a record corn crop this autumn will likely weigh on a farm economy already saddled with low prices and rising fertilizer and seed costs.

Rollins pointed to inflation, high yields and the stalled talks with China as reasons for a year of projected losses for farmers.

"We are working with our colleagues in Congress and closely monitoring markets daily to evaluate the amount of additional assistance that might be needed this fall," Rollins said at a conference of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture in Rogers, Arkansas.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usda-considering-economic-aid-farmers-this-fall-says-secretary-2025-09-15/

[Irish_Dem]

1. US taxpayer paid to bankrupt farmers. Now will pay to bail them out.

[KPN]

18. In order to keep his/their voter block intact ... and

the fat ass, billionaires and haters do it begrudgingly.

[Irish_Dem]

23. The billionaires are angry that feeding the people is even an issue.

They would like to say let them eat cake.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

38. Isn't that called vote buying...???

... re: all the MAGAT and RNC and their ilk claiming the Democratic Party "wants" illegal aliens in the USA so they can vote Democratic in elections.

[bluestarone]

2. Buying votes here!

That's exactly what they are doing, IF they proceed!!

[riversedge]

3. Trump bailed out farmers with tax money during his first term also.

[Escurumbele]

22. After he screwed them, same as it is happening here.

But if anyone saw a video someone posted here in DU, the farmers voted for him for that exact same reason, they wanted more free money, and tax cuts. According to the woman on the video, most farmers are millionaires, and I would dare to say that it is, in part, thanks to our tax dollars.

[Farmer-Rick]

32. Most farmer's are millionaires??????

How did I miss out on that? Like any occupation, their are billionaire fat cats looking to invest their dead relatives money and middle class people working to make a living.

The margins are very small for traditional farmers.

The billionaire farmers are in corn, wheat, soybean and rice mostly in the midwest. There are some farmers who raise pigs for the Chinese markets. They are more likely to be raising pigs for a corporation that makes most all the profit. The same for chicken in the US. If you raise chickens for Tyson forget about getting much profit. Beef is popular around here and raising cattle is another frequently corporatized farming system. But the farmers raising cattle, or other farm products to sell at auctions are definitely not millionaires.

These grain producers grow it mostly for export. Their markets are mostly outside the country. These are the farmers pedo Trump bails out. He may also bail out Tyson chicken and the Chinese pig farmers but that's to support the corporation. It doesn't go to individual farmers.

I'm a small farmer. I do a little of everything. I grow fruits, vegetables, eggs and meat. I have even grown saffron and other expensive herbs to get my sales up. I sell directly to Americans, no exporting. I don't do massive amounts of grains or livestock. And I have never gotten a bailout from uncle Sam. In fact, he keeps raising my tax bill. Just as I think I will have a good season, in comes pedo Trump to raise my taxes and cut a huge chunk of my profits.

[durablend]

4. Crank out them socialisms

[Norrrm]

11. them socialisms for the favored few..... Many more have lost their jobs.

[oasis]

17. That toon tells it all!

[Bengus81]

28. By 2020 the Trump admin had paid farmers a total of $32 BILLION in subsidies

I will FUCKING guarantee this next round of FAT subsidy checks will be MORE than what they will strip from Medicaid in it's first year. You know that "gotta save money so Medicaid gets GUTTED" thing.

[FakeNoose]

5. Easy-peasy, just cancel those ridiculous illegal tariffs

[quaint]

6. Which farmers?

[littlemissmartypants]

7. I suggest maybe not the Libertarians.

[quaint]

9. nor the *real* family farmers.

just disgusted

[Bengus81]

26. Family farms make up 95% of farms in the US. So yeah...they'll be getting yet ANOTHER check

each month. What is that now three??

[quaint]

33. Small family farms, not the huge acreage, corporate farms with multiple locations, owned by families.

[JoseBalow]

8. Gotta take care of your base!

Now to figure out a way to exclude the libs...

[mdbl]

10. So I guess all the Bootstraps are off!

[turbinetree]

12. Let me get this straight they voted for the psychopath that promised them the moon................and then

when he fucks them over on his retribution mentality they want his help.................how about senior citizens economic aid..................how about people with disabilities with economic aid............better yet ask that traitor why he spent money on paving over the rose garden, then starting to build a fucking ballroom to entertain other fucking psychopaths.................because of his treason and ego..............dumb fuckers never asked there grandparents what it was like in 1929................because a republican crashed the country into a depression...........

[twodogsbarking]

13. You can't expect the people who caused the problem to solve the problem. They won't, but we know that.

[republianmushroom]

14. Why ? They got their man and his policies in the WH.

[Grins]

15. "Soshilism!!!!"

Isn’t that what these shits have been screaming about since Reagan? And now…

[Mblaze]

37. They didn't bat an eye

When Trump "acquired" 10% of Intel in the name of the US.

[Prairie Gates]

16. Destroy the market through protectionist policy, then subsidize the losers with government checks

These are the great believers in Saint Milton Friedman?

Good God. The Democrats, are, of course, then encouraged to occupy the Chicago School space abandoned by the MAGAs. They should decline, and move hard left instead. If the market has failed to produce fair trade, then it has failed. Say the MAGA premise is correct, but its solution is insane and incoherent. That's the play, not slotting oneself into the Friedmanite spot to be further abused.

The people know neoliberalism is a failure. That's why they vote for Trump in the first place. You have to give them the viable alternative, not take up the anti-Trump position from inside the neoliberal catastrophe.

[mdbl]

31. All neoliberalism is is unbridled capitalism with a few social policies - very few.

Let the boys have their market fun while we try and keep a few social programs propped up - like Social Security. What? They are too powerful now to stop their even taking that? Who would have thought. Why didn't they warn us?

[Renew Deal]

19. Bailout

[Woodycall]

20. The Fucking Original Welfare Queens!

[Bengus81]

36. Bought and paid for by a felon/perv from Queens

[DallasNE]

21. How Would This Economic Aid Work?

Would the farmers sell their grain to the government to resell or store? Would they use tariff money to pay for it? What a boondoggle.

[bmichaelh]

24. History Repeats

Some people do not learn from this past.

I have seen this play during Trump's first term.

He imposes tariffs; markets are closed to farmer's products; they need bailing out.

Why did Trump think it would be different the second time?

[Bengus81]

25. Who didn't call this bailout months and months ago? I did when they shit canned USAID.

Wonder why Republicans get the rural vote?? BOUGHT and PAID for.........

[kerouac2]

27. Captain obvious said this would happen

Did they seriously not realize this would happen or just not care? Not that maga would care about either reason because they would rather believe it's the Dems fault or rather a necessary temp pain on the road to making merica great again..

[Johonny]

29. The Trump deficit set to be amazingly high

Ballrooms instead of homeless shelters will do that.

[DinahMoeHum]

30. Welfare cheats

Most of them are white and rural, by the way.

[travelingthrulife]

34. Rinse, Repeat. These foolish farmers will hoover up that public cash as they wail

about the Cadillac Queens in the cities. Your markets are still destroyed fools.

[D00ver66]

35. DOGE

Sounds like waste fraud and abuse to me. They got what they voted for time to enjoy those benefits.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

39. Another one of their attempts to drain the Treasury...

... incase you haven't noticed the war against the U.S. of A. Treasury that has been ongoing since the time of Reagan.

[live love laugh]

40. Public aid was a nasty thing when I was growing up ....

[Mysterian]

41. The "fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION

just so they could borrow more money from China and other countries for all sorts of fraud, waste and abuse, including handouts to farmers. Why do farmers keep begging for public handouts when they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

[Mblaze]

42. Taxpayer money

Bailing out the tariffs. Trump's costing us coming and going.

[hamsterjill]

43. Wouldn't that be socialism????

Why, I'm sure every Trump-voting, red ass kissing farmer would refuse to accept any cash payments, right? They should have known to plant something that someone WOULD buy! They ain't taking no handout!!!!

(Is a sarcasm emoji really necessary here???)