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Rural farmland, Trump's base, has been devastated by his shutdown--everywhere but in Cali.

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would supply soy beans and poultry meat to China and that the United States had effectively given up on that market.

We tried to warn you.

Some Trump dead-enders may want to console themselves by saying at least farmers in California—their most hated state—are hurting as well. True, but as a Trump supporter so astutely put it, Trump is “not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

It seems California farmers are in a much better position to cope with the shutdown:

…things are sunny so far in California.

California growers "are used to operating with limited federal government oversight," said Joel Nelsen, California Citrus Mutual CEO and USDA adviser. "Here in California, we have such a robust CDFA (California Department of Food and Agriculture) that we aren't missing the federal government yet."

Josh Rolph, California Farm Bureau's manager of federal policy, agreed.

"The shutdown will have no big impact (on California ag) in the short-term," he said. "Most growers are not directly affected unless they're getting tariff or commodity payouts."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/12/1825269/-Rural-farmland-Trump-s-base-has-been-devastated-by-his-shutdown-everywhere-but-in-Cali?utm_campaign=trending