The programs announced by the USDA to help farmers and ranchers hit by the trade war isn’t enough. The administration needs to do more. That’s the message of South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke. He says the $12 billion proposed by the administration is not nearly enough to reimburse farmers and ranchers for their losses.
He says the retaliatory tariff impacts are growing daily and the administration had no idea what they were getting into when they began this trade battle.
Sombke says many farmers are teetering on the edge of survival.
Sombke says the administration’s bail-out plan sounds just like a re-run of the same plan that was put in place during the farm crisis and wheat embargo of the 1970s. That plan failed.
(WNAX)