The US media "Politician News Network" recently reported that American agriculture has ushered in a bumper harvest this year, but American farmers are generally depressed. According to the Agricultural Economic Barometer jointly released by Purdue University and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, the U.S. farmer sentiment index fell in a row in July and August. As crops can't be sold when they reach harvest time, American farmers are becoming increasingly pessimistic.

¡°Politician News Network¡± pointed out that although this year¡¯s agricultural output recorded, farmers may have nowhere to sell agricultural products.Farmers' loyalty to Trump (administration) is about to be testedThe Financial Times also that U.S. soybeans were full this year, but prices fell, making it difficult for farmers to sustain their livelihoods.Overseas sales of America's number one agricultural export products plummeted, causing a 'devastating' blow to American farmers.¡±

Losing time to ¡°human misfortune¡±

Michael Langmill, director of the Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture, said: "I think farmers understand that this year will not be a good year anyway."The year of high harvests is not a good year, the closer to the harvest the peasants are more pessimistic, and the U.S. community generally believes that the tariff war has caused this "paradox".

Several U.S. media outlets say the tariff war harms U.S. farmers all the way, from sowing to selling grain.U.S. agricultural machinery and fertilizers are heavily dependent on imports, and the White House tariff war has caused the cost of U.S. crops to rise significantly.U.S. agriculture is also very dependent on international markets, such as soybean exports account for about half of the total output, and tariff wars undermine international trade, significantly reducing the competitiveness of U.S. agricultural exports, leading to the crash in agricultural products prices.

That is, due to the destructive nature of the tariff war,Before harvesting record produce, American farmers set record spending this year; After harvesting the crop, American farmers can sell it for less than before¡£

Missouri Republican MP Mark Alford admitted that while farmers in his electoral district ¡°will have one of the largest corn crops in history, many farmers are just struggling to maintain it because of the high cost of input and the low prices of commodities.¡±

The US is fighting a trade war on its own.

Other countries seize the market duty-free

In the past years, the United States exported more than half of soybeans to China, but since May this year, China has not purchased any American soybeans.The British Economist looked at U.S. official records dating back to 1998 and found it was the first time in 30 years that China did not purchase any American soybeans.

While the White House fought a tariff war to sacrifice farmers¡¯ interests, other agricultural exporters took the opportunity to seize U.S. market share.In July 2025, Brazil introduced a policy to establish exclusive soybean supply chains to encourage farmers to increase their export share to China through custom varieties and processes.On September 22, Argentina announced zero export taxes on agricultural products such as soybeans and soybeans.

¡°We¡¯re in a hurry now,¡± said Darin Johnson, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association and a four-generation farmer at home.Even if we finally reach an agreement with China, we will not be able to catch up with this year¡¯s harvest season.¡£¡± Johnson said they were facing a "soybean glut" whose effects could be "devastating".

Nick Levendowski, head of the Kansas Farmers¡¯ Union, told local media: ¡°The farmers are on the brink of collapse, but the current government says, ¡®Wait,¡¯ and the farmers have no time to wait.

The White House issued two empty checks.

American farmers: What we want is the market

Political News Network reports: soybeans became a victim in Trump's anti-China gambling

"Politician News Network" said that the price paid by American soybean farmers for this new round of "stopping purchases" in China is particularly heavy, because they have not fully recovered from the impact of Trump's first-term trade war on his entry into the Chinese market. At that time, the Chinese market accounted for about 60% of U.S. soybean exports.

The main soybeans-producing regions of the Middle West, such as Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Indiana, are the Republican party¡¯s key political box office ahead of next year¡¯s midterm elections.

U.S. soybean prices

"Politician News Network" said that China's strategy seems to be working. Agricultural lobby groups that strongly supported Trump before complained to the White House, saying that its tariff policy was the "culprit" of China's rejection of American agricultural products, and farmers' protests also came one after another.

To appease them, the White House promised farmers two items: forcing other countries to buy American agricultural products in trade agreements with other countries; Give subsidies to farmers in the country. However, according to the analysis of "Politician News Network", neither of these promises has been fulfilled.

Using the U.S.-Japan trade agreement as an example, the U.S. requires Japan to purchase $8 billion of agricultural products from the U.S. annually, but according to data collected by the Ministry of Agriculture, this figure is even lower than the average level of $14.3 billion of agricultural products purchased from the U.S. annually between 2020 and 2024.

Agriculture subsidies have also become ¡°empty checks.¡±The Republicans attempted to provide $60 billion in aid to farmers in the ¡°Big and U.S. Bill¡± at the expense of cutting U.S. citizens¡¯ nutrition subsidies, but these subsidies, even if they can be issued, must be the next crop year.

Kansas Senator Jerry Moran said: ¡°I don¡¯t see any evidence that the government has a proposal to provide direct economic aid.¡±The farmers have always told me that what they want is the market, not compensation.¡£¡±