Farm Leaders Warn of 'collapse of American Agriculture'

Thursday, February 05, 2026

The chair of the U.S. Senate's agriculture committee warns that farmers are suffering heavy losses, while more than two dozen former industry leaders are sounding the alarm about the risk of a "widespread collapse of American agriculture" ahead of a $12 billion government bailout expected to reach growers this month.

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Current economic conditions and Trump administration policies could lead to "a widespread collapse of American agriculture," a bipartisan coalition of former Agriculture Department officials and leaders of farm groups warned in a letter on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u ...

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-- Amanda Becker (@amandabecker.bsky.social) Feb 5, 2026 at 7:17 AM

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Are these farmers implying that the disgusting orange chomo's Liberation Day hasn't led to the golden age?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-05 02:40 AM | Reply

On Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, another day that will live in infamy, 76,535,898 idiots voted to deliver America an economic and financial "Pearl Harbor" AND 9/11 which will take our country decades to recover from, if the US is still recoverable after 2028.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-05 03:25 AM | Reply

Donald Trump decided that he had no need for American farmers after the 2014 election.

Now it's 2016.

To all my agricultural friends out there: This is your last chance.

Fight back or live your lives impoverished and bullied by the Orange Ape.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-05 07:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Much

Winning.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-05 08:29 AM | Reply

Gotta get the input prices down....Seed, Chemical, Fertilizer, etc.......(except insurance.....) those prices pushed up significantly because farmers were doing well.

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-05 09:01 AM | Reply

those prices pushed up significantly because farmers were doing well.

#5 | POSTED BY EBERLY

They were doing well because they had markets.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-05 09:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Must have welfare.

#7 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-02-05 12:00 PM | Reply

prices pushed up significantly because farmers were doing well.
#5 | Posted by eberly

When were farmers doing well? Under Biden or something?
I've been hearing about "struggling farmers" my entire life.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-05 12:32 PM | Reply

Gotta get the input prices down....Seed, Chemical, Fertilizer, etc.......(except insurance.....) those prices pushed up significantly because farmers were doing well.
#5 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-05 09:01 AM | Reply | Flag: even YOU don't believe the bs you wrote here

#9 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-02-05 12:48 PM | Reply

-They were doing well because they had markets.

True and I didn't mean to exclude grain prices which are cyclical like input commodities.

And tariffs have impacted all of it.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-05 12:51 PM | Reply

"Chemical"

You know this business a little bit. You may have insight into the finances.

What's the cost of applying chemical pesticides, vs the losses if chemical pesticides aren't used?

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-05 12:59 PM | Reply

what BS?

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-05 01:01 PM | Reply

"Then, President Donald Trump returned to office last year, sparking trade disputes that disrupted U.S. crop exports and immigration crackdowns that increased labor costs and left some farms with crops rotting in fields."

More and more it is becoming obvious that Trump doesn't have a clue about the effwcts his policies actually have on agriculture and hia Cabinet appointees are chosen for the quality of their boot licking skills instead of their knowledge about the departments they lead. Hey if you don't like food prices now just give Trump a couple nore years to be Emperor and enjoy starvation.

#13 | Posted by danni at 2026-02-05 01:09 PM | Reply

The plan is to bankrupt small farmers so that agricorps can swoop in and buy up the farmland at pennies on the dollar at auction.

#14 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-05 01:17 PM | Reply

The plan is to bankrupt small farmers so that agricorps can swoop in and buy up the farmland at pennies on the dollar at auction.
#14 | Posted by Nixon

These are the results Capitalism is expected to deliver.
We're doing to American farmers what America did to farmers in other countries.

This is what Karl Marx predicted, when he said capitalism will eat itself:
Crisis theory.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-05 01:29 PM | Reply

Gotta get the input prices down....Seed, Chemical, Fertilizer, etc.......(except insurance.....) those prices pushed up significantly because farmers were doing well.

#5 | Posted by eberly

Trump's tariffs are killing everything everywhere.

Most fertilizer comes from Canada, parts, etc etc are imported from elsewhere overseas with high tariffs ...

#16 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-02-05 03:22 PM | Reply

Maybe wise up and don't be stupid f*&^s the next time you walk into a voting booth.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-05 03:31 PM | Reply

Farm Leaders Warn of 'collapse of American Agriculture'

Have they tried charging $6/lb for ground beef? Well, I'm all out of ideas.

#18 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-05 05:04 PM | Reply

Point and laugh at the magat scum

Eat dirt morons

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-05 05:14 PM | Reply

What did they expect when Donny Two Scoops told them he was going to rid this country of all the "bad hombres?" There is NO ethical justification building a metaphorical wall with a 200' neon sign on one side saying "Help Wanted," then hanging a even bigger one on the other side demanding they all go home, and sending tactical-festooned goons to make sure they do so, one way or another. Congrats...we're the bad guys npw.

#20 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-02-05 06:01 PM | Reply