Yahoo News: Farmers have been getting screwed for decades. This could save them.
Even as a kid, I knew we had weather to beat if we wanted a good harvest. So when the tractor hit the straightaway in our valley — where our family had plowed a living for four generations — I always popped it up a gear. The dust flew and I was dog tired, but smiling.
Harvest time holds both hope and exhaustion for farm families. An entire year of work, making or breaking our finances. And each year gets harder.
Now, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to remake the American economy with massive tariffs, he has a central challenge coming from the heartland that gave him so much support: Get tough on trade, without finishing off farmers.