as well as more rural territory
… and rural territory is already getting hit by Trump’s tariff shenanigans …
“Whatever they’re buying is non-U.S.,” Bunge Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Soren Schroder said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “They’re buying beans in Canada, in Brazil, mostly Brazil, but very deliberately not buying anything from the U.S.”
That’s why the tariffs have tremendous potential to hurt farmers here in Ohio, where soybeans are the number one agricultural export at $1.4 billion. China is the state’s largest export market.
U.S. soybeans will help fill whatever gap is created by the redirection to China from other countries but it’s gotta hurt.
This has been the latest episode of “These Assholes Deserve Each other.”
Republicans ignore spiritual values, and embrace bad policies.
No big deal for the farms. The farms will be just fine. The farmers however are not going to be able to weather a year or two of going broke real fast. Maybe they can change to a more marketable crop next year, but retooling implements is costly. One scenario is they go under and mega farm corporations buy them wholesale in a few years, thus reducing the number of rural Republican voters. Or maybe they back off support for the party that is pushing a program that the farmers can well recognize as bull shit.
Medical marijuana will be legal in Ohio later this year. 
The vast majority of rural Ohio Republicans have nothing to do with agriculture. If they do it is because they are landlords of family land farmed by others. The soy bean prices won’t effect their main source of income. The small family farmer started to disappear in the 1970’s, you either went really, really big or got out.
The Republican primary winner will play on the white cultural resentment vote…Jordan’s pick
Ohioans, vote Tuesday to rid ourselves of some of the crazy gerrymandering.
Every day lately I get a fresh-squeezed glass of Schadenfreude, thanks to the GOP and their blunders, stumbles and stupidity…
Ah my, I love the smell of internecine warfare in the morning. It smells like victory.
Please stop calling Kasich and Tiberi “centrists.” They are both very conservative and have always been. They just are not the crazies that are now running the GOP.
“It’s going to be competitive, like a lot of suburban Republican seats around the country, regardless of who the nominee is because of the blue wave that’s coming.
They hate that word competitive
Voter suppression , gerrymander all tools to defeat competitive
Gee how do you expect us to win if we don’t cheat?
So much winning, Ohio: As Trump’s tariffs bite, small U.S. manufacturers begin to tap the brakes So much winning.
What are the primary sources of income?
They have jobs like the rest of America, often in the suburbs of metro areas and commute. Only 2% of the nation are farmers, And increasingly, what used to be support businesses are consolidated in regions with little presence in each county. Tiberi’s district skims close to the suburban Honda Assembly Plants in Marysville.
I have to believe that even Republicans get nervous when Jim Jordan opens his festering gob … that boy just ain’t right.
“His vote to expand Medicaid was definitely noxious to us,” Club for Growth Vice President Andy Roth told TPM.
Aside from the Klan and the Nazis, there are few organizations as noxious as the Club for Growth.
I would add the GOP and the NRA to that list…
ha ha–Thanks, I needed that! 