Bailouts may not be enough to influence farmers to vote Republican - Entrepreneur Generations

U.S. farmers will soon begin receiving bailout funds from the government designed to help insulate them from the ongoing trade war with China, but some think the payments may not be enough to help, and may sway farmers to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections. “Corn farmers get the smallest slice of the aid pie. Corn groups estimate a loss of 44 cents per bushel, but they're poised to receive just a single penny per bushel,” Juliet Linderman reports for The Associated Press.

Kevin Skunes, a corn and soybean grower from Arthur, N.D., and president of the National Corn Growers Association, told Linderman: "It's pretty obvious that the rural agriculture communities helped elect this administration, but the way things are going I believe farmers are going to have to vote with their checkbook when it comes time.”

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