Whom Should Farmers Believe: The President or Their Lying Eyes?

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon

The Trump administration continues to tell America’s farm community that this is a golden age and that the administration’s tariffs are working. The data tell a different story.

A new report from North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies quantifies what American farmers and ranchers already know from their own balance sheets: the Trump administration’s 2025 International Emergency Economic...