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Posts tagged Farm Market Facilitation Program
Trump provides record aid to farmers
$46 billion in direct payments almost doubles previous record set in 2005
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Ted CoxU.S. Steel, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Donald Trump, Trump Trade War, Trump Tariffs, Trump Tariff Farm Bailouts, USDA, George W. Bush, Farm Bill, Farm Market Facilitation Program, Joe Janzen, Nick Paulson
GAO backs Durbin on Trump tariff bailouts
Government watchdog finds largest payments went to farmers across the South, not Midwest soybean growers
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Ted CoxFarm Market Facilitation Program, General Accountability Office, Donald Trump, Dick Durbin, Trump Trade War, Trump Tariffs, Trump Tariff Farm Bailouts, Illinois Soybean Growers, Debbie Stabenow, Anne Schechinger, Environmental Working Group
Perdue to farmers: No more trade bailouts
USDA secretary expects China trade resumption, despite delays caused by coronavirus outbreak
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Ted CoxFarm Market Facilitation Program, Sonny Perdue, Donald Trump, Trump Trade War, USDA, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, USMCA, Illinois Farm Bureau, Richard Guebert Jr., Ethanol Waivers, Illinois Ethanol
Farm Bureau prez renews call for trade, not aid
Trump trade war reduces Ill. soybean exports to a third of level three years ago
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Richard Guebert Jr., Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Farmers, Illinois Farm Trade, Illinois Soybean Growers, Illinois Soybeans, Trump Trade War, Trump Farm Bailouts, Trump Farm Handouts, Farm Market Facilitation Program
Durbin renews charge against cotton bailouts
Illinois soybean farmers slighted in Trump’s trade-war handouts, says senator
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Ted CoxDick Durbin, Donald Trump, Farm Bailout, Illinois Soybean Association, Illinois Soybean Growers, USDA, Sonny Perdue, Farm Market Facilitation Program, Trump Trade War, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Barack Obama
Trump trade bailouts still benefit richest farms
Environmental watchdog says handouts ‘stack the deck against small farmers in favor of the big guys’
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Trump Trade War, Trump Farm Bailout, Illinois Soybeans, Illinois Soybean Growers, Environmental Working Group, USDA, Farm Market Facilitation Program, Anne Weir Schechinger, Sonny Perdue, Dick Durbin, Chuck Grassley
Farm bankruptcies on the rise
Illinois farmers hold their own as U.S. farm debt projected to hit record $416 billion
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Soybeans, pork socked by new Chinese tariffs
But quality of soybeans improves in latest USDA report
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Ted CoxIllinois Farmers, Illinois Farm Trade, Illinois Soybeans, Illinois Corn Growers, Illinois Pork, Trump Trade War, Trump Tariffs, Illinois Pork Producers Association, USDA, USDA Crop Progress, Farm Bailout, Farm Market Facilitation Program
Trump escalates trade war, China halts U.S. ag buys
Stocks plummet as China also devalues currency
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Trump tariff bailout goes to biggest farms
Top 1 percent got average of $183,000, while bottom 80 percent averaged $5,000
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Trump Tariffs, Trump Trade War, USDA, Environmental Working Group, Farm Market Facilitation Program, New Food Economy, U.S. Steel, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Illinois Soybean Growers, Illinois Farm Bureau, Richard Guebert Jr., World Trade Organization
