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Tariffs threaten to upend markets that Missouri and Kansas farmers depend on: 'Absolutely bad news'

U.S. row crop farmers produce enormous quantities of food, and they depend on selling lots of it overseas. They thrive under free trade policies.

They're also big spenders, laying out billions on the heavy equipment, seed and fertilizer they use, making them doubly vulnerable to tariffs.

kcur.org/news/2025-04-04/tarif

KCUR · Tariffs threaten to upend markets that Missouri and Kansas farmers depend on: 'Absolutely bad news'By Frank Morris

@DeniseG

"These tariffs are just absolutely bad news," said Vance Ehmke from the western Kansas farm his ancestors homesteaded in 1885. "They cause the prices for everything that we buy to go up, and the price for everything that we sell to go down. I mean, it is being economically drawn and quartered."

kcur.org/news/2025-04-04/tarif

KCUR · Tariffs threaten to upend markets that Missouri and Kansas farmers depend on: 'Absolutely bad news'By Frank Morris

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Western Kansas ... here's the map on how Kansas (and notably western Kansas) voted in the 2024 presidential elections: