{"id":40952,"date":"2025-05-08T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/trump-tariffs-to-hit-small-farms-in-maga-heartlands-hardest-analysis-predicts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:51:24","slug":"trump-tariffs-to-hit-small-farms-in-maga-heartlands-hardest-analysis-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/trump-tariffs-to-hit-small-farms-in-maga-heartlands-hardest-analysis-predicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major corporations are best placed to benefit from Trump polices at the expense of independent farmers<\/p>\n<p>The winners and losers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">Trump\u2019s first tariff war<\/a> strongly suggest that bankruptcies and farm consolidation could surge during his second term, with major corporations best placed to benefit from his polices at the expense of independent farmers.<\/p>\n<p>New analysis by the non-profit research advocacy group Food and Water Watch (FWW), shared exclusively with the Guardian, shows that Trump\u2019s first-term tariffs were particularly devastating for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/farming\">farmers<\/a> in the Maga rural heartlands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/08\/small-farms-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major corporations are best placed to benefit from Trump polices at the expense of independent farmers The winners and losers of Trump\u2019s first tariff war strongly suggest that bankruptcies and farm consolidation could surge during his second term, with major corporations best placed to benefit from his polices at the expense of independent farmers. New &#8230; <a title=\"Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/trump-tariffs-to-hit-small-farms-in-maga-heartlands-hardest-analysis-predicts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}