Ohio Family Farms Hosed by Trump Tariffs

Sunday, October 05, 2025

We're in a hell of a mess here," said Ohio farmer Chris Gibbs as he worked on his combine at the start of harvest season. "A severe cash flow mess," he sighed. "A working capital mess." Gibbs, who farms more than 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County, along with a 90-head cow-calf operation, described the five-alarm fire raging in the farming community from Trump's blanket tariffs. Some growers have called the fallout from his chaotic trade war, and the reciprocal tariffs it provoked, a "farmageddon" that could ruin what made rural America great. It's that bad.

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The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding expenses for farmers, who, thanks to a president they still overwhelmingly support, fear losing their farms.
Many don't know how much longer they can hang on.
Trump's punitive tariffs on foreign buyers made their crops less competitive in markets around the world (and drove down prices more) while other senseless tariffs on fertilizer, steel, aluminum, and lumber just sent the cost of doing business through the roof.

Another debacle orchestrated by the bankruptcy-prone orange pedo.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-02 02:40 AM | Reply

With a 71% turnout of all eligible voters on 5 Nov 2024, 55.14% of Ohioans voted for twice-impeached, unindicted sex predator oligarch Dummkopf Trumpf; 43.93% voted for a woman of color, Kamala Harris.

You can see the growing number of farms for sale in Ohio here: www.realtor.com and www.landwatch.com

And here is the national trend for farmers: www.farmprogress.com

Farmer suicides rates, already high, are increasing: www.agweb.com

Dummkopf Trumpf should be prosecuted not only for sabotaging the national economy, but mass involuntary manslaughter.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-02 03:52 AM | Reply

For Trump, "farming" means agribusiness.
As for individual farmers, they're just peasants by another name.
Hardly worthy of notice.
But since a lot of them consistently vote against their own interests ...
Well, that's the rubes and that's why Trump loooooves them.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-02 06:15 AM | Reply

It's not like you were not warned.

Suck it up... Cankles has told you that in two maybe three years things might be better.

He doesn't care about you or your dirty farm. He only cares about himself...how much he can grift from the treasury, from corporations who buy his crypto...what? You don't have thirty or forty million to buy his meme coins? Sucks to be you. What about your representative and senator who sits by an lets his policies destroy you? They don't give a flying f**k about you either. They are only interested in not getting primaried by an even worse p.o.s. magat or getting mean tweets from him at three am. They'll stroll into the town halls (if they are brave enough to host one) and tell you "I didn't read the tax bill that is taking away your health insurance subsidy or medicaid" or they'll ignore your pain and suffering from his tariffs and just blabber on and on that "the tariffs are working" and flat out lie to you.

So what are you going to do about it?

You will vote GOP like a good little sheep over and over as they stab you in the back.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-02 08:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I'm not a farmer, but I could see this coming.

It is the least surprising thing in the world, knowing Trump.

So why did these practical, hard-working people vote with their heads up their asses?

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-02 08:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You will vote GOP like a good little sheep over and over as they stab you in the back.

#4 | Posted by Nixon

Is it because they don't want other people to have abortions?

What do they see when they look at Trump?

What do they conclude when they examine Trump's behavior?

It's like they all insisted upon shooting themselves in the heads.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-02 08:21 AM | Reply

These farmers are going to go bankrupt and then lose their lands because of Trump.

And then, inevitably, they are going to find that the man who impoverished them has been aware of and participating in a child sex ring that has gotten hold of some of their daughters.

Many of them are going to shoot themselves in the head in the literal sense of that phrase.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-02 08:29 AM | Reply

"55.14% of Ohioans voted for twice-impeached, unindicted sex predator oligarch Dummkopf Trumpf"

At least ---- admits where this issue ends for him.

"I don't give a flying f**k about you either."

#8 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-02 09:37 AM | Reply

"a "farmageddon" that could ruin what made rural America great."

What, exactly, made rural America great?

People with ambition in rural America want to get out of rural America, they just can't afford to.

The only people who want to move to rural America are successful retirees.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-02 09:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Everything a farmer buys "from phosphate and potash to agricultural chemicals, herbicides, machine parts, is up by 50% over the last decade, while our proceeds from the sale of crops is down by 40%," said fifth-generation Ohio farmer Joe Logan."

Yeah, and?

It's not Trump's fault that farmers are ------- who keep making Bad Life Choices, generation after generation, like poor little fifth-generation Ohio farmer Joe Logan.

Signed,
Republicans

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-02 10:00 AM | Reply

It's consequences for life decisions.
Maybe they need to look for another job. Or qualify for one.
#116 | Posted by boaz

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-02 10:03 AM | Reply

43.93% voted for a woman of color, Kamala Harris.

This is why the Dems are the worst possible opposition at this critical juncture in our history.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-02 10:49 AM | Reply

Farmers, a key GOP constituency, hit hard by the-------------------'s shutdown

www.politico.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-02 12:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

So why did these practical, hard-working people vote with their heads up their asses?

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-02 08:17 AM

Fox/OAN/Newsmax/the AM echo chamber.
When your Ed ended with High School and most of the easily available info is bs, it pretty much sets you up to get exploited.

#14 | Posted by morris at 2025-10-05 05:54 PM | Reply

They should plow it all under and switch to pot.

#15 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-10-05 06:04 PM | Reply

"So why did these practical, hard-working people vote with their heads up their asses?"

Because they're practical, hard-working people who go through life with their heads up their asses.

It worked for generations, because previous Presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, figured it's good for America to keep practical, hard-working people growing food.

Trump knows better. They're mis-managing the land. There's too many brown people working the land. So he's bankrupting them.

He's "hurting the people who need to be hurt."

He is delivering on his promises.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-05 06:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Wall Street Journal bashes Pedo 47's self-destructive tariff folly

www.rawstory.com

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-05 10:42 PM | Reply

Lots of Ohio farmers who fly Trump flags and the Stars and Bars next to each other, on the fence lines of their corn/bean fields. They are getting what they voted for. The Red Hat Mob is the last to take Trump literally and not seriously...

#18 | Posted by catdog at 2025-10-06 08:20 AM | Reply

Guess they can buy their kids one doll for christmas rather than 20.

Also, stay the F out of California, Okies ruined the central valley the first time, we don't need their poor homeless butts around for round 2.

#19 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-10-06 03:23 PM | Reply

"May you have the bankruptcy you voted for."

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 03:33 PM | Reply

Dear Ohio Farmers,

You had CHOICES in the election. You made the wrong one...again...

You have CHOICES now! Sell before bankruptcy or let the bank sell after bankruptcy.

Acre Trader is here for you! And JD Vance gets a cut!

#21 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-06 04:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1