Trump wont fight for us: Kansas rancher explains h
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Trump wont fight for us: Kansas rancher explains how president has betrayed US farmers
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(from a WAPO op ed that, of course, I cannot get to)
Mike Callicrate, an independent cattle rancher from Kansas, has written an editorial for the Washington Post detailing how President Donald Trump’s agricultural policies have been bad news for American farmers.
In his op-ed, Callicrate explains that the consolidation of power among big agribusiness companies is the single biggest problem facing American farmers — and he says Trump’s administration has only made things worse.
“Despite Trump’s campaign promises, when it was time to stand up against big agribusiness, he caved,” he writes. “His actions have left farmers and ranchers such as myself feeling betrayed and afraid for our economic futures.”
Specifically, Callicrate calls out Trump’s Department of Agriculture for overturning the Obama administration’s Farmer Fair Practices Rules, which gave independent farmers more power to bring unfair practice claims against big agribusiness firms.
At the end of his piece, Callicrate writes that “if Trump won’t fight for us, we will bring the fight to him.”
A cold day in Hell (or Brownbackistan) this morning.
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