Josh Turek
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These markets maybe will never come back.
You're absolutely right as well.
You're looking at fertilizers.
You're looking at now somewhere between 25% and 30% of Iowa farmers do not have fertilizer.
Meanwhile, we're maybe a month or two away from planting season.
So what does that mean for them?
The yield would be dramatically different.
I mean, you're already looking at all these folks being upside down.
I mean, our farmers have not made money in a decade and now their commodities prices are actually upside down.
So they are planting.
soybeans, and they are losing money on that.
And this is, and it's not just exclusive to tariffs.
They have been getting beaten up because of consolidation and anti, you know, we've not done anything to break up the monopolies.
We've not done anything on antitrust.
And farmers are hurting.
And I tell you, everywhere that I'm going all across Iowa, but the place that we are getting the biggest amounts of turnouts of Republicans is in rural communities.
And the word that we hear the most is betrayal.
Hmm.
And these folks will say, we turned out, we voted for Trump.
And now look what you've done.