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Another Possible Toll Of Donald Trump's Trade War: Farmer Suicides
Sep 8, 2019 16:16:53   #
rumitoid
 
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.

“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.

“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”
Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.

Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.
“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.
“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”

Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.

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Sep 8, 2019 16:28:26   #
vernon
 
rumitoid wrote:
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.

“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.

“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”
Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.

Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.
“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.
“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”

Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.
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You are absolute `filth ' now go find some scripture to support your sickness.

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Sep 8, 2019 16:43:20   #
RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia
 
rumitoid wrote:
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.

“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.

“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”
Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.

Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.
“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.
“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”

Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significan... (show quote)


Subsidies are all about supporting domestic producers by fixing the market forcing competitors out of business, so why is Trump supporting Bolsonaro increase agriculture production while giving subsidies at home, this just doesn't make subsidy sense.

To make subsidy sense, you have to say Trump is clueless or he's playing a role directed by pantheons, some are physical and some are - Mental As Anything, -. Live it up.

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Sep 8, 2019 16:54:10   #
rumitoid
 
vernon wrote:
You are absolute `filth ' now go find some scripture to support your sickness.


V, I have present day stats.

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Sep 8, 2019 16:57:50   #
rumitoid
 
RT friend wrote:
Subsidies are all about supporting domestic producers by fixing the market forcing competitors out of business, so why is Trump supporting Bolsonaro increase agriculture production while giving subsidies at home, this just doesn't make subsidy sense.

To make subsidy sense, you have to say Trump is clueless or he's playing a role directed by pantheons, some are physical and some are - Mental As Anything, -. Live it up.
Subsidies are all about supporting domestic produc... (show quote)


Agreed. He is a megalomaniac without any real experience or expertise. He doesn't really care.

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Sep 8, 2019 17:00:01   #
rumitoid
 
Open to whatever u r passionate about.

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Sep 8, 2019 17:02:54   #
rumitoid
 
RT friend wrote:
Subsidies are all about supporting domestic producers by fixing the market forcing competitors out of business, so why is Trump supporting Bolsonaro increase agriculture production while giving subsidies at home, this just doesn't make subsidy sense.

To make subsidy sense, you have to say Trump is clueless or he's playing a role directed by pantheons, some are physical and some are - Mental As Anything, -. Live it up.
Subsidies are all about supporting domestic produc... (show quote)


Thank you. Obviously.

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Sep 8, 2019 17:34:27   #
woodguru
 
vernon wrote:
You are absolute `filth ' now go find some scripture to support your sickness.


That was a very "interesting" response to an article that was actually of serious interest. Do you think it makes a difference to bury your head in the sand and pretend this isn't happening? Or does this have to do with the blasphemy of saying bad things about Trump and the economy for farmers?

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Sep 8, 2019 18:16:26   #
RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia
 
rumitoid wrote:
Thank you. Obviously.


That's OK OPP is more than just a pick up joint for me.

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Sep 9, 2019 19:23:07   #
crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
 
rumitoid wrote:
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.

“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.

“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”
Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.

Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.
“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.
“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”

Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significan... (show quote)



Rumitoid doesn't realize he undermines his own premise; Another POSSIBLE Toll Of Donald Trump's Trade War: Farmer Suicides.

That's what all the fake newsers do; speculate, present it and hope some people take it as fact. You should join up with CNN.

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Sep 9, 2019 22:08:25   #
JoyV
 
rumitoid wrote:
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.

“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.

“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”
Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.

Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy.

An official of the National Farmers Union warned earlier this year that financial stress, including the added burden of disappearing markets in the trade war, appear to be taking a toll on farmers’ mental health. 
“It’s been insane,” Patty Edelburg, vice president of the organization that represents some 200,000 families said on Fox News in May. “We’ve had a lot more bankruptcies going on, a lot more farmer suicides.”

She placed concern on financial stresses squarely on the dwindling China market in the trade war.
“We have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets,” she said. “We’ve lost export markets that we’ve had for 30 years that we’ll never get a chance to get back again.” 

A new survey published this month in JAMA Network Open covering the years from 1999 to 2016, leading up to when Trump took office, found that the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent in that time. Rates among those living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than people in major metropolitan areas.

Researchers suspect the increase is related to poverty, lower incomes and underemployment. “Those factors are really bad in rural areas,” study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, told NBC.

The study also found that counties with high levels of social fragmentation — based on the levels of single-person households, unmarried residents and transient residents — and a high percentage of veterans had higher rates of suicide. All of those factors were more pronounced in rural counties.

And farmers have voiced concern that Trump’s trade war could exacerbate tough financial conditions for them. Minnesota soybean farmer Bill Gordon told CNN earlier this year: “With these added tariffs, farmers are not getting their [credit] lines renewed, banks are coming in and foreclosing on their farms, taking their family living away, and it’s too much for some of them. We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the U.S.”

Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years.

Farm help organization Farm Aid reported a 30% increase last year in calls to its hotline.
The calls and “our work with partners around the country confirm that farmers are under incredible financial, legal and emotional stress. Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the organization.
“America’s family farmers — reduced in numbers since the farm crisis of the 1980s — have approached endangered status. ... At Farm Aid, we spend our time on the phone with anxious farm families who cannot make ends meet, and who will not be able to improve their situation simply by working harder. Confusion and lack of resolution on policies like trade, immigration and healthcare accelerate the crisis.”

Matt Rosmann, a therapist who helps suicidal farmers, blames the stresses of surviving on the land for farmers who can’t take it anymore. Low farm prices, the “prolonged recession in agriculture,” flooding and the Trump administration are all causing problems, he wrote in an April column in The New Republic. “Farmers are becoming dismayed about the tariffs.” 

A Morning Consult and American Farm Bureau Federation research poll published in April found that 91% of farmers and farmworkers said financial issues are affecting their mental health. About 87% of those surveyed said they fear losing their farms.
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National Farmer's Union is a far left wing organization whose goals include making farming green and increasing government control over farmers.

Now how bout we actually look at some numbers.

1st, the effect of the China tariffs on the soybean farmers. If the tariffs hadn't gone into effect. China would still only be buying a small fraction of what they previously did in soy8. In fact the amount of soybeans they use to buy from Brazil, which was far less than from us; they have dropped to 40% of the former amount. The reason is the bulk of the soybean imports were for pig food. Almost no pigs--almost no need for pig food. American soy growers have lost about $3 billion in China exports. The Trump subsidies have given them $6 billion. So they have been compensated double what they lost. Without the tariffs. their losses would have been almost as bad, but it wouldn't have been able to be blamed on the tariffs. So th they would have been far worse off.

2nd, net farm income has INCREASED $88 billion in August alone. This is faster than the overall economic growth for the nation. The net average farm income for 2019, is 11%. The average farm income from 2000 to 2017, was a negative 2%. With the biggest losses between 2013 to 2017. $62 billion.

Now why if Democrats are so concerned about the American farmers are they blocking replacing NAFTA with USMCA? NAFTA gave priority to Mexican dairy products going to Canada over American dairy products. In fact it gave priority over most farm products and even transportation for Mexican over American.

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Sep 9, 2019 22:11:07   #
JoyV
 
rumitoid wrote:
V, I have present day stats.


Are your stats from the National Farmer's Union? That is like using PETA stats for livestock health.

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Sep 10, 2019 02:08:24   #
crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
 
rumitoid wrote:
Rural suicides in the U.S. have climbed significantly in recent years, and farm leaders and mental health care providers say the financial toll of Donald Trump’s trade war could contribute to the tragedy....Wisconsin had a record 915 suicides in 2017, many of them farmers under financial stress. Net farm income has plunged 50 percent in six years...


Rumitoid, so who was responsible for the first three of the six years? Donald J. Trump has been president for just 33 of the 72 months that make up 6 years.

WHy don't yo answer just this?

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