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Trade aid might not touch farmers hit hardest by drought
Missouri’s worsening drought has become intertwined with the Trump administration’s trade mitigation aid package for affected farmers. Missouri farmers hit hardest by the drought might not see any of the relief from the proposed $12 billion package.
Parts of Missouri are now in the worst degree of drought reported by the U.S. Drought Monitor, and Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, says those are producers hurting the most.
“And the worst part about it is the trade mitigation package that’s being discussed is going to base payments on this year’s crop,” Hurst told Brownfield, “and that is going to mean that many Missouri farmers won’t receive any payments at all.”
Where Hurst is, in Missouri’s far northwest corner, he’ll get some grain from his corn, but he says growers not far to the south and east of him have determined that they’ll have zero corn for grain this year.
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