{"id":23957,"date":"2025-12-09T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23957"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:41:13","slug":"trump-turns-12-billion-tariff-related-revenues-into-farm-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/trump-turns-12-billion-tariff-related-revenues-into-farm-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump turns $12 billion \u201ctariff-related revenues\u201d into farm aid\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Donald Trump of the United States on December 8, 2025 announced farm aid worth $12 billion as bailout against trade war expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan emerged at a White House roundtable meet between the President, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said that the farm aid kitty comes from a tiny portion of \u201ctariff-related revenues<\/u><\/a>,\u201d per Yahoo Finance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some $11 billion will immediately settle mounting expenses for soybean, corn, wheat, cotton and rice growers under the fresh Farmer Bridge Assistance Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disbursement of the remaining $1 billion is still under discussion but could favor specialty crop<\/u><\/a> growers, per Ag Secretary Rollins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucky Row-Croppers & Soy Farmers  <\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Row croppers including soy farmers will benefit from the initial one-time sum via the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bloomberg, growers with gross farm turnover of under $900,000 in the 2022-24 tax period will be eligible for the initial bailout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eligible growers ought to apply for the one-time payment before December 19 and should include cultivated acres during the highlight period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remuneration rates will come out end 2025 while the one-time financial settlement will not extend beyond February 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For soybean farmers, the aid follows an October 2025 bilateral trade breakthrough<\/u><\/a> with China, which agreed to buy 12 million tonnes this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beforehand, soy growers had been under dire straits because trade with China had plummeted to a trickle, forcing federal prices down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the October agreement, China had bought 29% less goods from the U.S. annually, despite exceeding its worldwide trade surplus by $1 trillion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, China had accounted for 50% of the $24.5 billion in soy export value by the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside crops, Trump has ramped up investigations into the fixing of\u00a0federal prices<\/u><\/a>\u00a0for commodities like meat, to alleviate cost hikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opponents of the investigations claim these are tariff repercussions rather than fixes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bailouts however remain quite an attractive prospect to farming communities irrespective of who is right. This is apparent politically: among the 444 counties that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) labels agricultural-dependant, 432 voted for Trump in 2024.  To understand more on how bailout appeases farmers, peruse the below stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United States Farm Aid\u00a0Statistics\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Farm aid or bailout is one of the ways the U.S.\u2019 government directly compensates farmers for trade- or disaster-related offsets. Regarding trade, bailouts try to offset lapse in agricultural exports due to retaliatory tariffs. In the 2018-19 trade war, for instance, federal farm shipments fell by $27 billion<\/u><\/a>. China\u2019s farm purchases from the U.S. halved to $9 billion<\/u><\/a> in 2018 from $19.5 billion in 2017. Goods worth $450 billion<\/u><\/a> including agricultural were overtaxed between China and the United States. Prices that farmers receive domestically also decreased as a result of surplus at home, forcing farmers into financial straits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump would foot the bill for disillusioned farmers with checks initially worth $32 billion in 2020. In the the second trade war in 2025, the bailout package hit $12 billion<\/u><\/a>, per a December 8, 2025 White House statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much aid did soy farmers get in the 2018-20 trade war?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cash give-outs by the Trump administration to compensate soy farmers for losing prices from trade war with China amounted to $8.5 billion in 2020. Estimates however put the actual trade toll on soybeans to have been $5.4 billion less<\/u><\/a> than what farmers received. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the annual Ag bailout during Trump presidency years?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how direct payments have transpired in Trump\u2019s presidency (2017-20\/2024-25), according to\u00a0Politico<\/u><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Direct Payment Value<\/strong> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2025<\/td>$12 billion<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>$32 billion<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>$11.5 billion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig: three years of direct farm aid payments by Trump\u2019s administration to U.S.\u2019 farmers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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