Frank Morris

Many Midwestern farmers lost money this year.

Missouri farmer Richard Oswald says the bailout will help cover bills and loan payments, but won't make up for this year's losses.

The U.S.

Department of Agriculture says it will distribute bailout funds by March, with row crop farmers taking $11 billion and other farmers splitting another $1 billion.

For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.

President Trump's trade wars aggravated a bleak equation for U.S.

farmers.

His tariffs jacked up the prices of the supplies and equipment they need to buy.

And retaliatory tariffs cut export sales and drove down grain prices.

Many Midwestern farmers lost money this year.

Missouri farmer Richard Oswald says the bailout will help cover bills and loan payments, but won't make up for this year's losses.

The U.S.

Department of Agriculture says it will distribute bailout funds by March, with row crop farmers taking $11 billion and other farmers splitting another $1 billion.

For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.

I think it is going to turn into litigation.

There are various claims that each side could bring, and particularly focusing on, is my deal the better deal for shareholders?

Most of the food produced in the U.S.

is touched by immigrant labor, and about 40 percent of those workers are in the country illegally.

Farm jobs were already hard to fill, and since ice raids began last year, the farm workforce has shrunk.

Christy Boswell is with the new advocacy group Grow It Here.