farmers

“And farmers benefit greatly from significant government, federal government support programs primarily a crop insurance program and some commodity price support programs but they are very anti-government.”

“When they did that, the federal government, I believe, had transfer payments of north of twenty billion dollars to farmers.”

“There will be, as there was in the first Trump presidency, very likely very large transfer payments made to farmers, because China is very likely going to tariff imports or stop making Import purchases altogether”

“As a result, the Trump administration had to issue two support payment checks to farmers that totaled twenty eight billion dollars in 2018 and 2019.”

“You can't come in here and gut the crop insurance program. You will lose thousands of farmers. And guess who swoops in and picks up their land and their operation? The Chinese get you.”

“You can't solve this through government regulation. You just can't. But you solve it through nutrition, through empowering your farmers, through getting good food into these programs versus the ultra processed, et cetera.”