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Hello!I have the answer for you, based on facts and sadly, on numbers too…More and more increasingly angry farmers and ranchers are blaming Trump for the tariffs.Not China! Farmers are angry over crop reports, broken ethanol promises, tariffs, crop reports, Trump, and mounting debt.Minnesota Farmers Union President Blasts TrumpMinnesota Farmers Union President: "At the beginning we spoke out that we supported the president looking at trade agreements. Maybe we can do things better, no disagreement with that at all...We've gone on for over a year. We've lost markets, we lost the China market." pic.twitter.com/kBbgrHQqqS— The Hill (@thehill) August 19, 2019Iowas Farmers Accuse Trump of Breaking PromisesIn Iowa, Angry Farmers Say Trump Broke Ethanol Promises.Iowa farmers are pushing back after President Trump reneged on a promise to review a national program that gives waivers to small refineries that don’t add ethanol to their gasoline.The president had promised corn farmers he would review the exemption program after a June trip to Iowa, but a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to issue new waivers to fuel producers signaled an end to the administration’s study.But the decision creates tension between two groups Trump views as supporters and may threaten the patience of farmers who have already been hit hard by the tariffs of Trump’s trade war.Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) has requested an EPA Office of Inspector General investigation of the program and whether it violates renewable fuel laws, but at a press conference in Iowa on Wednesday, farmers directed their anger more at Trump than the EPA.“Right now what we’re seeing from this administration is a dogged approach to allow the biggest fossil fuel players an opportunity to put more money in the back pockets of their large shareholders and take that money out of the pockets of hardworking farmers right here in Iowa,” she said.Reuters reports Farmer's Threat Prompts U.S. Agriculture Department to Pull Staff from Crop Tour.The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and three sources said the threat of violence was made during a phone call from an angry farmer.Tour organizers said in a statement the threat was taken “very seriously.”U.S. farmers have complained this month that a government crop report did not reflect damage from historic flooding this spring. They are also frustrated about unsold crops due to the trade war with China, falling farm income and tighter credit conditions.Corn future prices posted their biggest drop in three years after the USDA estimated a bigger-than-expected crop on Aug. 12, despite floods that slowed planting. USDA’s reports have long been a key reference for global commodities markets.James McCune, a farmer from Mineral, Illinois, who was not on the tour, said he understood the anger.“Any farmer who talked to the USDA guy who made the crop report would probably say something derogatory to him,” McCune said. “I don’t know anybody that agreed with that stuff.”The Trump administration has also been scrambling to stem rising anger over its decision this month to allow numerous oil refiners to mix less corn-based ethanol into their gasoline.Debt MountsFinally, please consider the Average U.S. Farm Is $1,300,000 In Debt, And Now The Worst Farming Crisis In Modern History Is Upon UsWe haven’t seen anything like this since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Leading up to this year, farm incomes had been trending lower for most of the past decade, and meanwhile farm debt levels have been absolutely exploding. So U.S. farmers were desperate for a really good year, but instead 2019 has been a total disaster.As a result, we are facing the worst farming crisis in modern American history, and this comes at a time when U.S. farms are drowning in more debt than ever before. In fact, the latest numbers that we have show that the average U.S. farm is 1.3 million dollars in debt.If the horrific weather and endless flooding wasn’t enough, about a week ago the Chinese government announced that they would be ending all “purchases of U.S. agricultural products”, and that was a devastating blow for farmers all over the nation.In particular, soybean farmers are going to see demand for their crops absolutely collapse. In recent years, China has purchased approximately 60 percent of all U.S. soybean exports.And even if a trade deal is eventually reached, it is unlikely that all of that demand is ever going to come back. Right now, the Chinese are spending enormous amounts of money “to build transportation infrastructure to ship soybeans grown in what used to be rain forests” in Brazil. They aren’t going to abandon all of that just because Trump suddenly changes his mind.This is not a pretty picture for US farmers.There is no way for farmers to pay back the money they owe.Farm bankruptcies are already on the rise. This year may break many of them.This answer is attributed to: Twitter. It's what's happening. The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill , Business & Financial News, U.S & International Breaking News | Reuters and End Of The American Dream

The trump organisation rolled out an aggregate of $28 billion in farm help over the course of the last two years to counterbalance misfortunes because of the trade war, yet the help, for example, Iowa ranchers got was eased back; it’s the trend of money related decreases for farmers.As per recent research, "the most extravagant of the rich" the top end 1% got 13% of the government installments, or more than $177,000 each. The base 80% got a whopping installment of $5,136. Three of the "big wigs" got more than $1 million each, while 45 got more than $500,000.And that just doesn't shape up with this trump guarantee: 2:08 AM - Nov 18, 2019 “Our great Farmers will recieve [sic] another major round of “cash,” compliments of China Tariffs, prior to Thanksgiving. The smaller farms and farmers will be big beneficiaries. In the meantime, and as you may have noticed, China is starting to buy big again. Japan deal DONE. Enjoy!”The top 10% of beneficiaries, the greatest and most gainful modern scale farms in the nation received half of the $6 billion in help handed out since August. The organisation's MFP strategies stacked the deck against little ranchers in favour of the big guys.Justice Farms of North Carolina, owned by the family of Gov. Jim Justice, reached the program cap of $125,000 not long ago and was the greatest beneficiary of soybean appropriations in West Virginia. Justice, the most extravagantly wealthy individual in the state, possesses a phenomenal business domain of coal and rural substances that are constantly buried in litigation over unpaid bills! The farming company is the same. It is named in a long-running lawsuit that asserts that the Justice organisations moved financial resources between them with an end goal to abstain from paying a debt.The Justice farming company took in $121,398 in appropriations for soybeans and $3,602 for corn for their other farms on property they possess in West Virginia, as indicated by records handed to AP under the Freedom of Information Act. The two figures far surpass the program's median installments: $6,438 for soybeans and $152 for corn. Where is the evenhandedness in that?In the creative minds of Americans, in any event, the family farm depicted on greeting cards still exists: a picturesque, unassuming prosperous expanse that ethically occupies the space between the urban hubs where the vast majority of American’s live.But, it has been declining for ages, and as the end of 2019 stretches into the beginning of 2020, those little homesteads are experiencing a pummelling from every conceivable direction: a trade war, serious weather with environmental change, failing commodity costs identified with globalisation, political polarisation, and corporate cultivating characterised not by a silo and a hay shed but technology and the inefficiencies of scale. It is most noticeably the worst crisis in decades. And the ostentatious growing greed of the Fat Cats like Justice Farms and the like couldn’t give a flying Fu#K!Follow Up:We’ve come almost twelve months since I wrote this post and I continue on from the flying fuck!At this point, I’ll begin when trump dispatched his trade war, China pulled back its buys leaving American farmers' harvests to decay as you’re aware.What you might not know, is families lost homes and their business as they watched their neighbourhood flipped by cyclonic winds.The trump administration offered life saver installments to assist farmers with making a decent living. In January 2020 the administration signed a deal with China.China had agreed to purchase billions in U.S. farmed produce. What you weren’t told was it was a preliminary trade deal.And with all preliminary trade deals, just like this one, China has largely reneged because the purchases have still not materialised in full and guess what? Bingo! Your farmers appear to been abandoned again.Iowa might remain in a precarious situation, but they’re not the only ones. Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, all swing states with more noteworthy significance than Iowa have the tipping point in deciding the result of the Presidential political race, and rank in the best ten corn-developing states.For a few, it's as basic as the media they devour: Fox News and moderate radio frequently depict trump as DOING NO WRONG.Ayup, now here we are … no here you are and I see it as it is. The finance of many farmers’, the producers of your sustenance, have gone to hell thanks to trump.

I agree with a couple answers on here in that Nebraska no longer has advantages in strength and conditioning over everyone else, and that they no longer have a national rivalry with Oklahoma that has huge exposure to drive recruiting (though most schools don't, including many that are better than Nebraska).I think some context is in order: it's worth noting that other northern schools with tradition comparable or better than Nebraska are also struggling, relative to their past. Notre Dame hasn't won a big bowl game since 1993 or a national championship since 1988. Michigan hasn't won a conference title since 2004 or a national championship since 1997 (same as Nebraska -they split the 97 title). Washington hasn't won a Rose bowl since 2000 or a national championship since 1991, despite the fact they are the 2nd most traditional power in a league that has been weakening for awhile. Even Penn State, good as they are, isn't the same as when they were an independent or early in their Big ten years (though they're getting better). For non-southern schools, only Ohio State is improved over the last 20 years vs previous 20. Why? The profound in-state talent from which they can recruit their players.In an age where everyone is on TV and lots of TV dollars flow in to every power 5 program, it is difficult to grab the best players from another state, as most schools can close the borders to outsiders and recruit the best in-state talent, without conceding anything regarding TV or resources. I.e. - you're now more at the mercy of what your state can produce. Look at the number of SEC schools, in the most talent-rich area of the country, that have had runs as good or better than Nebraska's best teams in the last twenty years. And these schools, such as So Carolina, Miss State, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Missouri, don't even have the historical cache Nebraska does, and no past or current rivalry that remotely compares to what NU-OU was, or the current rivalries of today. But it doesn't matter. You can be on TV just as easy in Starkville as in Lincoln, and if you're from MS, it'll be much more easy for you to be a Bulldog than a Cornhusker. And national recruiters like Notre Dame fare worse than before when they're competing with every p5 school in a state for a recruit.You have to maximize in-state recruiting, and if possible get a few neighboring states' best players as well. Nebraska has faltered here recently, losing in-state guys to Iowa as well as to FCS powerhouses in the Dakotas. In many cases, these players were not sought after in high school, but this has been happening frequently enough, and Nebraska has had roster attrition frequently enough, particularly with far flung players, that some re-examination must be in order. And Nebraska, which has frequently relied on some of the best players in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri for scholarship recruits, may be in the wrong league to even begin building this back up. A league move shouldn't permanently wreck a program, but Nebraska still doesn't seem to know where to get its guys in the Big Ten now that it no longer shares a league with many neighbors.What should Nebraska do? 4 modest proposals come to mind.1. Start trading a few out of state 3 stars from FL, GA, and AL for some not quite 3 stars from NE. It would reduce roster attrition and may help spur some growth in the state high schools for football. University of Iowa can get Iowa and Nebraska walk ons and low scholarship recruits to the NFL, why can't Nebraska? Well, Iowa's roster is traditionally more local, they're increasing their odds by having more local guys. Of course their ceiling is not what Nebraskans want, but they are better than Nebraska now. Trying to recruit a higher class of walk-on would help, too - perhaps improved funding to reduce in-state tuition for those good enough to get a scholarship to USD, NDSU, or SDSU will help them want to walk on at NU.2. A recruiting message aimed to pierce a specific part of the SEC. Nebraska (or Iowa and Wisconsin for that matter) can roll into the western and northern part of SEC country and say, "what has 20 years of SEC ties and SEC money gotten MSU, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri? No league titles, infrequent major bowl wins (if any), infrequent division titles, and their brains beat in by Alabama and LSU and occasionally Florida annually. Nebraska has won 4 division titles since 2006 and played several times on New Year's Day as well. Join forces with other good players from these states, concentrate at our school, and get us to the league title that you will, never, ever, ever win at MSU, Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Arkansas." MSU and Ole Miss appear to be going through flux and the state of MS is loaded with talent -the time is now. It also wouldn't hurt to figure out a way to start prying open Missouri - currently an SEC school - in the same way, as the Tigers are also going through flux. Nebraska can't get the best player in Alabama or Florida out of the state. It can out of Mississippi and Missouri or Arkansas. And should try.3. Follow Oregon's example and build a new program from scratch. This will be hard, due to tradition, but it could provide a brand new program identity to which Nebraska can recruit that is not tethered to a past weighing down current players. Scott Frost's offensive innovations are something that would fit this pattern, but Nebraska should consider things such as facilities with an eye toward future gains vs past trophies (which should be put in a museum), multiple uniform combinations, and possibly even a new state-of-the art stadium a generation from now. Kids don't care about anyone's historical success. They want to play, look cool doing it, and look like they're doing things on the cutting edge.4. Finally, Nebraska needs consistency. It has been bad enough to have 5 coaches in twenty years. It has had 5 AD's too!! How can Nebraska improve when it doesn't even know what the vision for the program is? Contrast this with Wisconsin, which has had 3 coaches since Barry Alvarez but knows exactly what it should be and which coaches it should hire, and the coaches know the systems they can employ in such a cold-weather program. Coaches also know where to recruit players to fit the Wisconsin system. In this vein, Nebraska should consider sticking with Frost and AD Moos through the duration of their contracts, even he is .500 for the first several years.Of course the answers for NU aren't simple. And that's why I do think it may be impossible for Nebraska to be what it once was. Nebraska wasn't a function of playing in a weak league. Nebraska achieved just like Michigan and Notre Dame once did, but now struggles as they have (though a bit more now). Nebraska needs to exploit the advantages it can, and forget about the ones they can no longer exploit.