Ohio soybean farmer Chris Gibbs, who left the GOP after becoming particularly frustrated with Trump’s trade and agricultural policies, thinks that Trump should worry about the spouses of farmers heading into the 2020 presidential election.
The U.S. and China are prepared to sign phase one of a trade deal, and President Trump tweeted that China “agreed to many structural changes and massive purchases of Agricultural Product, Energy, and Manufactured Goods.”
It’s important to note that not all spouses of farmers are wives: Women make up 36% of the roughly 3.4 million farmers in the U.S., a number that has increased by 27% over the last five years, according to the latest Census of Agriculture. Furthermore, 56% of the roughly 2 million farms in the U.S. employ at least one female producer and 38% of U.S. farms are run by a woman.
Story continuesAccording to the American Farm Bureau, farm debt is projected to reach a record high in 2019 of $416 billion. While this isn’t solely due to the trade war, the tensions don’t help farmers’ situations at all. “Those always crack before the whole thing crumbles,” he said. “Farmers, historically, over the past two years, have been supportive of the president. I feel like I’m on an island a lot of times, that I’m the only one that’s been outspoken.
“We had that framework in the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Gibbs said. “We had them surrounded. It wasn’t going to be the end-all, but we had that framework of partnering allies that we could have gone after China then and got those real, real structural reforms that not only agriculture needs, but also business needs as well to move forward.”
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