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Ranchers to Trump: We got you elected. Now we need your help.

09.27.2019
Sam Bloch
The 4-month-long tomato trade dispute with Mexico is ending, but at what cost to eaters?
08.29.2019
by Marilyn Noble
City dwellers continue to collect bailout money meant for farmers
08.16.2019
by Jessica Fu
Why farmers can kiss their China market goodbye
08.12.2019
by Art Cullen
USDA gave almost 100 percent of Trump’s trade war bailout to white farmers
07.29.2019
by Nathan Rosenberg + Bryce Wilson Stucki
Trump administration announces details of $16 billion in trade aid payments
07.25.2019
by H. Claire Brown
JBS a big winner in USDA trade war relief contracts
07.02.2019
by Christopher Walljasper
A farm in Missouri got $2.8 million in Trump trade war money. Hundreds more took triple the allowed limit.
06.06.2019
by H. Claire Brown
Four farms have received more than $1 million each in Trump trade war bailout payments, Treasury data show
05.31.2019
by H. Claire Brown
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