Ann Schragel
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first heard Oct 2025
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Yeah, our Department of Agriculture yesterday hosted a roundtable with all the ag groups about farm stress and what we're hearing in Minnesota about this.
And the phrase came up over and over again about uncertainty fatigue.
Farmers are facing uncertainty in all sorts of places, whether it be our markets due to the self-imposed, self-inflicted trade war that we're experiencing.
whether it be from the government shutdown, whether or not we'll ever receive payments that are congressionally mandated through our farm bill, whether we'll see a farm bill again if Congress has fully decided to abdicate its role.
You know, and, like, the loss of a social safety net, that does benefit farmers, right?
Snap dollars benefit farmers.
Farmers disproportionately buy health insurance on the private market, and we're seeing our health insurance rates go up because the insurance companies don't know whether or not there will be tax credits for that.
I mean...
It's everything there is uncertainty.
We're used to uncertainty because we know that we can't control the weather, right, as producers.
But this seems like there are some really self-imposed policies that are making that uncertainty even higher.
Go ahead, Ann.
I would say that, yeah, rural America is not a monolith, that there are plenty of rural progressives out here.
And we don't govern just for the people who vote for us, right?
That it needs to be reflective of everyone in America and everyone in the ag economy.
I think that in understanding that like a lot of people were sold on the, the idea of bringing down prices and, and like,
That's a very real reality for folks who are working class.
I think accepting though that the common enemy though is not necessarily new Americans or immigrants, but corporations who are squeezing us from all directions and making it harder to earn a living.
And yeah, I think that's the start of those kinds of conversations of being like, yeah, it's a real bummer that corporations control so much of our lives and are making our lives more expensive and getting a shared understanding there.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a soybean grower and in Minnesota, one in three rows of soybeans get exported to China or they did.
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