IOWA Farming CRISIS is SHOCKING! Maga Farmers are Loosing their farms

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Well, Iowa farmers are going through it.

[00:00:03]Not just Iowa farmers, but check this one out.

[00:00:07]>> The reality he and thousands of other Iowa farmers are facing is nowhere near as bright.

[00:00:13]>> Farmers are under a lot of stress. A lot of farmers are reporting to us that in some cases they're on the brink of a crisis.

[00:00:20]>> The reasons why vary. Iowa Corn Growers Association President Mark Mueller says the skyrocketing costs and availability of fertilizer, which is largely controlled by just a few companies, is the most current issue.

[00:00:32]>> I'd say it's safe to say that my fertilizer supply, my fertilizer company is making more money per acre than I am off of the corn I raise. And I'm not even sure I'll be making money on corn this year.

[00:00:42]>> But some say it's merely the latest.

[00:00:45]Ultimately, the problem >> fertilizer is up 77%.

[00:00:50]They're paying over $5 a gallon for gas.

[00:00:54]They're in the middle of a trade war.

[00:00:56]And let's just add fertilizer. Oneth of where we get our fertilizer is stuck at the straight of Hormuse. Yes. Yep. Iowa voted for this administration. And likely they these farmers voted for this three times. And no, this is not the first time that Trump did this to them.

[00:01:15]He screwed over farmers in his first term. We're stumbling into all these FAFOs and if you saw he mention uh high farm suicide bankruptcies. I've reported on all of those. This is going to be a very rough time for all farmers in the USA. A very very hard lesson that they can only learn themselves. If you found this post sad but informative, please like, comment, follow, and share.

[00:01:40]>> Doug Fuller's family has been farming in northern Pulk County for generations.

[00:01:45]>> Now I get to call all the shots. He's already nervous about the cash crop he's about to start planting. Soybeans are the target of China's retaliatory tariff, 10% on certain imports from the United States in response to President Trump's 10% blanket tariff on Chinese goods. Fuller is fearful it spells bad news for the 2025 harvest.

[00:02:07]>> You know, they aren't good for the other countries. They aren't good for me. And who could blame who could blame them putting reciprocal tariffs on us? you know, it's just a it's just a match, you know, and nobody's going to win.

[00:02:19]>> China is one of the largest overseas markets for American soybeans. According to the USDA, the United States exported nearly$13 billion dollar in soybeans to China last year alone. Fuller has already faced 2 years of bean prices dropping and says it looks as if the trend may continue.

[00:02:38]>> Last year, we took a step back and now we're taking another step back.

[00:02:44]So, I'm uh you know, many of us will, you know, we'll get through it and it's going to be tough on tough on others.

[00:02:53]>> Rising farm foreclosures in Iowa just aren't about land. They could shape the future of farming communities. Data from the American Farm Bureau Federation shows farm bankruptcies are increasing across the Midwest. In Iowa, filings jumped by 11 cases from 2024 to 2025.

[00:03:11]Another look at the data shows just how sharp that increase is up 220% with 18 farm bankruptcies in Iowa in 2025. Farm leaders say it's happening because farmers are facing a tough economy. That pressure is making it harder for families to plan for the future. They're >> also putting off bringing on the next generation onto the farm uh which is badly needed. The average age of the Iowa farmer is over 57 years old. We need new and beginning farmers.

[00:03:43]>> He says the impact doesn't stop on the farm.

[00:03:46]>> Our communities need a broad independent network of familysized farms in order to support their community, to support their main street businesses, to support their schools, support their churches.

[00:04:00]>> Layman says passing a new farm bill is critical to help support farmers. And in the meantime, those facing financial stress can reach out to the Iowa concern hotline for help and resources.

[00:04:11]>> Farmers and truck drivers and really anybody reliant on diesel is being forced into making tough decisions here in Iowa and across the country as this war continues to drag on. They tell me that they are being pushed in many cases to their very limits.

[00:04:26]>> You can't lose money year after year after year and keep the business going.

[00:04:33]And that's the that's the scary part right now.

[00:04:36]>> Many experts say that even if the war were to end immediately that many of these problems and elevated prices are going to last for weeks in and when it comes to farmers in particular that might already affect next year's growing season.

[00:04:50]>> Well, if farmers break, why then there's less food for everybody in the world >> purposefully from the big issues. And a couple of them are this. Iowa's number four in the nation for net out migration of our kids 25 to 29. How can you build a state if your people are leaving?

[00:05:04]Import new people. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, we can talk about that. Um, another one would be, you know, 25% of our farmlands now owned by out of state investors and funds that don't live in our state. So, our farmers who have had this ancestral connection to their land are now becoming tenants again, something we left Germany in large part for.

[00:05:23]>> We have had farmers who have been voting two and three times in a row for President Trump. Well, that's okay.

[00:05:30]That's their right. But I see right now the largest farm crisis in the last 40 years. Chad, you know me. You know what happened in, you know, 40 years ago. I was a young farmer and I struggled through the 1980s farm crisis. Um, I'll be real candid with you. During that time, you know, I went in for treatment for alcoholism and it's the best thing I ever did. I wouldn't be alive talking to you guys today. I saw where people were getting foreclosed and they were filing bankruptcy. There was really families got divorced and breaking up and all kinds of bad stuff. I don't want to see those people that are the same age today, those young farmers as I was in the 80 cuz that was hell. I wouldn't wish that upon anybody. I don't care who they voted for. Somebody has to stand up and talk to them.

[00:06:20]>> Right. Uh welcome back family. Uh those are the videos of uh the farmers themselves coming out to to try to explain what they're passing through, what are what they facing and how it is challenging their own life, their own jobs because through this we have lo they have lost a lot of farm farm workers. They have lost their their markets. They have lost everything.

[00:06:42]They're losing their money to invest or to put these farmings. But uh at the end of the day they're not getting anything as interest or any benefit from it.

[00:06:52]That's why they are coming out the government you know to blame the government because of all that's happening because once the cost of fuel like diesel goes price goes high in this kind of way. It means that there are some people who are not or will not be able to afford to sustain their own tools like tractors and everything that making them to go and farm each and every day. Now what is happening because at the first time it was about the tariffs now they're discussing about the 40 billion bailout to Argentina. So this means that even if today the farmers comes out every time to fight against the government about all that's happening they cannot bail themselves from all from this mess and uh this has been created because of the people who are ruling in the government this governing this country. So when I speak I talk about IOA you know IO is one of the states or the states across the rural areas of America across the rural areas of America the same problem and crisis happening in Missouri in Mississippi in Texas in Alabama in all these region all these areas are facing the same because they are all farmers they're all facing the same crisis because when they cry about the price of fuel. They are facing all this. When they crying about the price of fertilizers, they are all facing this. When they're facing crying about the tariffs and the the the broken of markets, they are all facing this. So when the entire rural area for the country start to experience the same to the farms farming sectors then this means that a lot of problems coming and this will not only affect the farmers but it will also affect the the consumers the people who maybe have been depending or benefiting from this indirectly because when we put aside the people like the farmers who are owning their own farms you know who are being affected directly we have some like their uh or their laborers or workers who are losing their their jobs. This means that once they lose their job from these farmers then their families are also losing something to to get to the table. So they cheer deportation. That's something that we have to know. They celebrated the black people's de deportations.

[00:09:16]They shared the massive deportation but they never considered deeply how is this going to affect their sector.

[00:09:24]They only voted and supporting and cheering about racism, about hate. But they forgot to know that these people who are being targeted to be deported are the people the same same people who have been working their farms making their production to be high and being able to get benefit from all that they have been doing. So this is the time they're coming to light that they they did they created a mess and this mess is no longer or is not only affecting them but affecting the economy of country affecting their families affecting their the their their plans and everything that they have been doing to for their life just because of the farming that they have been doing a long all that long time ago. So what will happen or what next to the farmers of America? Because today I've seen many of the white uh white farmers trying to say that oh we need a new importer new imports of black people or immigrants back to their farms. But how can this be possible? How can you expect to import back the people whom you celebrated when they were being deported?

[00:10:36]Today I've seen many of the farmers coming out to cry about the the shortage of workers and they were crying out because they felt like these jobs that have been occupied by black people were supposed to be them to be to be theirs. But what they failed to understand that the people which the work that has been occupied with black people were the job that even the white Americans cannot afford to do. So today we having many white Americans who have no jobs. Some have been fired. Some their contracts was were terminated. Some their companies were shut down because of the high cost of living. And these are the same people who cannot even go to afford to work in these farms where the farmers are crying out due to lack of or shortage of workers. So today I'm coming to learn that you made a mistake because you're doing something blindly just because you hate people of color and you never you fail to understand that these people played great role in building your economy inviting making your work to be where it was. Now your food steps are rotting in farms. You have no manpower to transport your goods, your your products from farms to the to homes or from homes to the market.

[00:12:02]And this all has come because you believed in someone in an individual whom you believe that is going to change the life of the farmers. He's going to improve your life. He's going to make your to to fight for your incentives. is going to lower the price of fuel and and and fertilizers and at the same at the end of the day you find that he was all lying to you. He decided to lie to you so that he can get your support. He can get your vote and make you to help some people whom used to help you and uh give when you are giving or paying them the the the less wages that cannot even sustain their life. Today you are here complaining calling for the new import of the black people because you live to know that these were just lives who were supposed to only work in your farms. And now today you're feeling the same.

[00:12:47]You're feeling the shift. You're feeling the damage that you created by their own hands.

[00:12:54]So I don't think this is the time to say that we need you need the black people new black imports from black nations to come and work in your farms. You have we have you have many you have many white Americans who have who don't have jobs and they're going out because they have nothing to do with their life. Call them out. Employ them to your farms so that they can work for you because you did this with sober minded. Be blessed. Try to drop your views in the comment section. I'll make sure I respond your comments.