259 farms have already filed BK this year, more than last year in 12 months.
Based on publicly available data unless Trump starts paying out bigger subsidies soon, that will increase. Farmers are being hammered by tariffs markets are going elsewhere and even when the tariffs are paused, those markets are already gone they don't come back.
Trump has said he will bail out the farmers but the question is how much and for how long. All the talk about welfare and Trump is creating a scenario where many farmers will be paid to NOT farm and we'll have to import more food to offset the losses. The exact opposite of what the idiot says he's trying to do