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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

What are the off-farm incomes? Given the high average age of the American farmer, I would guess social security and retirement funds along with commodity futures trading which many do. Younger farmers often provide services to others, eg hay cutting, fence building, irrigation installation, etc. But I'd like to se a true ranking of income sources.

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Apolitical's avatar

Why are U.S. farmers optimistic? This is easy to answer. They expect Trump to give them a lot of money in subsidies. They expect farming will be cross subsidised by income from tariffs.

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