Farmers and other businesspeople are watching the Trump administration’s trade strategy very carefully as tariffs, which could directly affect their bottom line, go up and down and back again. Brian Kuehl is Executive Director of Farmers for Free Trade and is holding town hall meetings across the country to discuss the tariff war and its impacts. He said he’s especially concerned about how these tariffs will affect farmers in the long run.
Farmers are getting squeezed by these tariffs already, and Kuehl said they’re running out of patience.
Kuehl added that the volatility and uncertainty of the tariff war is causing farmers to reevaluate how they run their operations.
Farmers for Free Trade has hosted town hall meetings in Austin, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina in the past couple of weeks. Their next stop is scheduled for June 17 in Swisher, Iowa. For more information, visit farmersforfreetrade.com.
