President Trump often espoused his love for America's farmers during his presidency. But after a year under President Biden, farmers say they're actually feeling the love.
"We had farm income that was up by a pretty fair amount in 2021, almost to the record level of 2013, but not quite," said Patrick Westhoff, director of the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute."Part of that, of course, was continuing government payments, but there was a very strong recovery in both crop and livestock prices last year."
The cost of the second round of tariff aid was estimated to be about $16 billion and came with added provisions that aimed to addressthat large corporations had disproportionately benefited over smaller farms in the initial phase. In 2020, Trump won a number of traditionally Republican farm states including Iowa, Texas, North Carolina and Nebraska.then-Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue used his position to promise more help for farmers during an August 2020 campaign event in North Carolina in a bid to woo voters.Playing fairly
Building on an executive order from July 2021, the Biden administration announced earlier this month it intends to provide $1 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to help expand independent processing capacity, and provide funding that would give independent meat producers access to cold storage and other equipment to improve distribution of their products.
Four companies — Tyson, JBS, Marfrig and Seaboard — control as much as 85 percent of the nation's meatpacking business, according to a White House estimate.
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