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Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

'It could break us': Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

Alfalfa hay is mainly used as feed for cattle and is big business in Arizona, with Arizona farms exporting over $100 million of alfalfa overseas a year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28499504

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It already happened.

ECAP will help agricultural producers mitigate the impacts of increased input costs and falling commodity prices.

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/03/18/usda-expediting-10-billion-direct-economic-assistance-agricultural-producers#%3A~%3Atext=(Washington%2C+D.C.%2C+March+18%2Cfor+the+2024+crop+year.
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  I’m calling it now, that aid package does not have Trump’s approval, he will not sign off on it, or find a way to slap it down.

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