The ripple effect of the Iran war on struggling U.S. farmers: "It couldn't have come at a worst time"

FAFO MAGAts

Exactly what most of them voted for, and they will never learn. Deplorable *and irredeemable*, she tried to warn us…

It’s a cult. They won’t get it. Ever.

If there is one benefit to this story it's that the pain is being felt by the people that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. So they are not victims of idiotic policy, they are victims of their own choices.

Enjoy what you voted for, assholes..

How's voting for billionaire Republicans working out for you guys?

Fear not farmers the EPA says that DEF fluid is causing you harm so it has eliminated the DEF sensor rules. Now you can just disable your emissions devices. And hey truckers good news for you too! Disable those pesky emission systems.

f*** them. they voted for a criminal pedo. .

Womp, womp \- Corey Lewandowski

Have fun losing your businesses Have fun losing your houses Have fun starving And then going to food banks etc and other services that DEMOCRATS fund….and then STILL be stupid enough, to vote Republcan

No sympathy here. You voted republican, your fault.

They literally voted for this.

Didn't farmers vote for this shit?

womp womp Leopards are feasting on their faces 🐆 Those Tangerine Toddler loving farmers deserve it if they lose their farms. 

*worse Anyway, moving on.

>"It couldn't have come at a worst time" Need to learn to time the market. I think Trump's "true" insiders have learned this.

It would be a shame if Vance is part of a company designed to buy up all the farmland for c**** huh?  It's almost like they're trying control the last little bit of food production. 

By a worse time they mean during Trump’s presidency? It’s the ONLY time we’d ever be at war with Iran. Every other president was smarter than him.

Is that really the headline? “It couldn’t come at a *worst* time? Goddamn we getting stupider by the day…

Lance Lillibridge, the Iowa farmer quoted here, received $492,359 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies from 2006 through 2024. It’s apparently always a “worst” time for Lance.

Trump will give them $3B and buy their votes back.

Put the pieces together dumbshits! It was the worst time to begin with because of shits-himself-daily. And then he made it worse. Because he is operating the presidency for the sole benefit of one person -himself, and he’s too stupid and dementia-riddled to even do that right. And he really doesn’t understand we _will_ be taking every last bit of that back and everyone with the name Trump will die in prison.

For those that voted for him will be suffering more, no one else to blame but themselves.

Got what they voted for, I don't see what the problem is.

Also the building and manufacturing industry was just hoping to recover from all the illegal tariffs and assume business as usual again and now this hits the economy.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times…

It couldn't have come at a worse time is the understatement of the year. We are officially in the spring planting window, and Operation Epic Fury has effectively choked the Strait of Hormuz, which handles about a third of the world's fertilizer trade.

Hahahah f*** em

U.S. Farmers hate trans people that they ever even see in their life so much they’ll rather make themselves poorer and rich richer. Lot of respect towards farmers but damn they can’t vote for their own benefit.

Not the world, buddy. Your bestie Trump has done this to you.

I live in farm county.  I don't feel bad for these morons. 

Farmers are almost all Trumpers, they can go kick sand.

… as intended

>The war has led to skyrocketing diesel and fertilizer prices. Lillibridge says the prices are piling onto an already struggling industry. ... The price of ammonia and urea, two fertilizer ingredients seeing disruptions, are up around 20% and 50% percent, respectively, since the start of the Iran war, according to Oxford Economics. The price of diesel gas is up 43.5%, according to AAA. ... Higher oil and gas prices have hurt the major stock indexes, and now Americans could feel it at the register. >"It really impacts the cost of every step of the process, all the way from seed, all the way through to finished product, which affects the price when it gets to your grocery store," Marlow said. >Farmers had hoped to compensate for last year's losses, when farm bankruptcies increased for the second year in a row. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, last year U.S. farm bankruptcies saw a 46% increase from 2024. >Lillibridge says his costs have already increased 25% since last year. He argues the situation needs to resolve itself before more damage is done.

Farm bankruptcies are up 46% over the year. YIKES! This conflict will be a deathblow to many

At least they're getting what they voted for, if they didn't want it why support Trump?

If only there was a better option to vote for! /s

They voted for it. "If our kids see us struggling out here, why would they want to take it on?" Well, they won't. To survive they'll enlist in the military to fight the orange wars

I call it karma as more than likly they voted for trump and would do it again

Nationalize large parts of the farm industry so we can not be held hostage by these idiots voting against their own interests every election

They, like every other voter, saw the millions of red flags & warning signs along with a pretty well documented history of conning others and still chose to vote him like an idiot. There's legitimately no reason to vote for him beyond letting stupidity & hatred consume you. He always had a crooked past and he's never shown good leadership.

Seventy percent of farmers voted for this shit and if they hadn’t, he probably wouldn’t have won.

>If our kids see us struggling out here, why would they want to take it on? Maybe don't vote for a conman pedophile who made it clear he's gonna make life harder for everyone but the rich

Have the day you voted for!

Hey farmers, you made your bed. Now f****** lie in it.

How's that stove? Is it hot enough yet? Apparently the first term wasn't a hot enough stove touch, so we all have to endure an even hotter stove touch from a bunch of ignorant hypocrites.

Farmers are getting hit from both sides. We’re already dealing with record high costs, and now a war in Iran is sending diesel and fertilizer prices through the roof right at planting season. For a lot of family farms, this isn't just a bad year, it’s the breaking point where they finally have to sell the land.

Oh that's a shame

How terribly sad for the poor fascist republican farmers who are getting exactly what they voted for. Nothing will teach these people other than pain.

But the pedo president got the distraction from his child rapes. Everyone else be damned.

Farmers should know the saying 'you reap what you sow.' I hope they get exactly what they voted for. Blue states subsidize their businesses while they attack everyone else. Sit and spin.

Lies I say the onlyfarmer.gov site. /S

Trump: "That doesn't matter to me. What about the statue?"

The trump admin named its agriculture policy program OnlyFarms. this country is a shit hole Https://www.OnlyFarms.gov

"How was we supposed to know?"

Farmers are stubborn and many will still vote Republican.

"It just feels like the world is trying to take this all away from us right now," Lillibridge said.

Who’d you vote for?

This is what the corporations want so they can buy up the farmland for c**** and control the agricultural sector.

Hey Farmers....why is it at the worst time? What happened before the war that was causing you to struggle?

If there's one MAGA group that seem to be constantly fucked over by Trump, it seems to be the farmers. It seems as if every term involves him kicking sand in their faces.

"Couldn't have come at a worse time" should be the Republican party's campaign slogan.

This sucks because depending on state anywhere between 15 percent and 40 percentage of farmers did not vote for the orange doofus and they are not immunize from his irresponsible choices

Hope it stings and they suffer. This what they voted for or allowed their neighbors to vote for.

Sucked in farmers. Make better choices next time you vote.

Farmers hopefully this time you do the right thing

Dumb ways to die…

Those farmers like to talk about 4d chess... maybe this is it? Any maga farmers that can read?

Yall voted for this....suck it up buttercup!

It’s not just the farmers who will suffer. The trickle down will be higher food prices for everyone.

I have no sympathy for these assholes…starve.

And they’ll still vote R next election cycle

Nothing but pure hard ice cold FACTS. This disaster has got to end immediately and the absolute bare minimum is having the Strait of Hormuz completely reopened.

It’s really too bad that the farmers insisted that Donald Trump be given a second term as president. Trump badly screwed over the farmers last time — and they loved it!!! The farmers want to be screwed over again and again and again. Feels so good. Farmers love it, love Trump , and hate the rest of us.