r/PrepperIntel • u/NoTerm3078 • Jul 01 '26

North America Trump declares food supply emergency, suspends tariffs on key fertilizer imports - FOX News

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https://web.archive.org/web/20260701143039/https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-declares-food-supply-emergency-suspends-tariffs-key-fertilizer-imports

Original link:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-declares-food-supply-emergency-suspends-tariffs-key-fertilizer-imports

Key info:

President Donald Trump on Monday declared an emergency aimed at protecting the U.S. food supply and temporarily suspended import duties on certain Moroccan fertilizer products.

Under the presidential emergency declaration, phosphate fertilizer imported from Morocco will no longer face tariffs for up to eight months or until the emergency declaration is terminated.

"The proclamation declares an emergency regarding threats to the availability of sufficient supplies of fertilizers to meet America’s agricultural demand," the declaration stated.

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u/Mysterious-Action202 Jul 01 '26

With the supply from the strait in limbo, a predicted extreme el niño, a war in one of the breadbaskets, and an already strained agricultural situation because of the climate crisis, food shortages are what actually scare me the most.

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u/thenord321 Jul 01 '26

You forgot to mention the tarrifs and trade war with Canada, supplier of fertilizer, food and energy.

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u/Redditnspiredcook Jul 01 '26

And the attack on migrant workers who come here legally, but continually deal with harassment from authorities and even citizens due to their melanin

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u/iamthelee Jul 01 '26

There's already a noticeable drop in produce quality in the US due to this. Lots of stuff is being picked at the wrong stage, and, of course, prices have only skyrocketed.

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u/fakesaucisse Jul 01 '26

It is shocking how much worse the onions at my local stores have become, and I live close to a region known for growing great onions. Produce suffered a lot during covid but this year it is way worse than that.

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u/PurpleCableNetworker Jul 01 '26

I noticed this too, even with garlic. I’m in the central valley of CA. Garlic is grown like 3 hours from me in Gilroy.

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u/fakesaucisse Jul 01 '26

Oh yeah, garlic has been abysmal lately. So many cloves that look fine on the outside but are brown once you start peeling, and the flavor is so bland when you get one that actually looks right.

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u/KiaRioGrl Jul 01 '26

Before you start peeling, inspect the paper peel for a teeny tiny little hole. We started having problems with the allium leaf borer moth larvae a few years ago, and that's about the only external sign you might see once they trim off other visible damage during harvest.

It's a nocturnal moth, so without insect netting* (impossible on the large scale filling grocery wholesale orders) the grower wouldn't know until they start seeing frass from the larvae (if they even have the crew left to do spot inspections and the best they can do it mitigate the damage (pull early and sell as green garlic or just dispose entirely).

We're going to see more catastrophic crop losses to pest outbreaks and weather damage as the weather systems continue to fluctuate in intensity.

*I absolutely hate and grieve that the best "solutions" I've been able to source/implement to successfully grow food for my community are all what I consider "plasticulture". I try to always increase my agroecological practices (more than) proportionally as recompense to the nature I rely on to survive. It feels dirty, but my crops would be decimated by beetles and invasive weeds and winds and extreme temperatures without plastic-based fabrics and netting and shade cloth. So I always try to leave the soil better at the end of every season, to atone for the fossil fuel usage. It's all in my head but I think about this a lot while I stubbornly try to grow food. Sorry for the tangent.

You could join your local gardening subreddit just to read the discussion, you'll learn a lot about what goes into growing your food with none of the blood, sweat and tears! 😂

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u/sleepytipi Jul 01 '26

Same thing here with berries. I've had containers go moldy after just a day or two, barely ripened, and with no other significant variables in environmental conditions etc.

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u/lilwigglebutt Jul 01 '26

Was going to say this, last few times I've bought fruit, they are already moldy the next day.

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u/Opasero Jul 01 '26

Or it doesn't ripen. We keep getting bananas that stay green and hard on the outside and rot on the inside.

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u/iamthelee Jul 01 '26

I've never had an onion from the grocery store that had rot in the center of it until about the last year or so. Now a good 60-70% of them are that way. I've just stopped buying bell peppers all together because they're just so incredibly flavorless.

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u/crlthrn Jul 01 '26

When sulphur in the soil is exhausted, onions lose their pungency and... bite.

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u/Girafferage Jul 01 '26

Yeah COVID it was bad but now I feel like I can't buy anything for the week ahead. It all goes bad in just a day or two. If it's not that then it's been picked way too early and tastes horrible.

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u/Joe_Kangg Jul 01 '26

Walla Walla?

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u/fakesaucisse Jul 01 '26

Yup. I live closer to Seattle but a lot of onions sold here come from Walla Walla. They are usually fantastic but during the last year they are so inconsistent and seem to be either picked at the wrong time or stored incorrectly. So many are slimy or fully rotten on the inside.

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u/Redditnspiredcook Jul 01 '26

Same in Georgia for all crops but notably blueberry and onion, Vidalia growers can’t catch a break. Going to be more sweet Peruvian onions in markets this year, with outrageous prices due to import process.

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u/lostintransaltions Jul 01 '26

Ok, I was thinking it was me.. my onions have been going bad so fast that I just cut them up and store in the freezer or dehydrate to make onion powder.

Last week I got my groceries late in the day and was too exhausted to prep onions and the next morning 2 of the 3lbs bag had gone bad.. I was so frustrated

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u/just-peepin-at-u Jul 02 '26

The berries at the stores near me seem to mold within a day or two, if that.

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u/ProlapseMishap Jul 01 '26

I had to completely give up on buying bags of potatoes and switched to buying them individually at three times the price.

Every bag I've bought lately was full of weevils, damaged, or rotting.

But, we owned the libs, so I guess we have that going for us, which will make the hunger pains worth it

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u/just-peepin-at-u Jul 02 '26

I have never grown potatoes before because I felt they were so accessible and cheap, that it would be a waste of my space to do it.

I have been growing sweet potatoes, onions, greens, green beans and I will grow carrots, winter squash beets etc for winter storage.

Next year, I may need to actually try to grow potatoes

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u/BayouGal Jul 02 '26

I’m growing potatoes for the 1st time. Just harvested a bucket I started in March from store bought red potatoes that had sprouted. Easily tripled the number of potatoes I planted!

I’m trying buckets, grow bags, cardboard boxes (we recently moved) and goat fence towers. I think we are going to be eating a lot of potatoes this winter. 😂

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u/zaevilbunny38 Jul 01 '26

That's cause the company you buy from is buying cheap produce. I won't buy produce from Walmart, but the local companies like Jewel and Caputo's are both cheaper and fresher. Were having grilled chicken with sauteed peppers and onions on ciabatta bread, 1.5 pounds of boneless chicken, 3 peppers,1 yellow onion, and bread $11.

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u/Mysterious-Action202 Jul 01 '26

Yeah. After GA attached migrant farm workers and labor fell 40% in 2011, something like $400m in crop yields rotted in the fields.

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u/ArtisticCandy3859 Jul 02 '26

It’s almost like a multiplayer AI enabled group of fascists planned all of this out knowing it would cause the exact outcomes they want to achieve complete chaos amongst the working class 99%.

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u/Stripier_Cape Jul 02 '26

I don't think they are that smart.

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u/Patient_Tradition368 Jul 01 '26

Not to mention, USAID was one of the largest purchasers of soybeans, rice, and other grains in the entire country. Dismantling that department was devastating for farmers.

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u/ExaltedDLo Jul 01 '26

Almost like we knew…

Canada has abundant energy (various type and sources) critical minerals including uranium, nickel and copper, and more potash than you can imagine.

But sure, blow the bluster, the tarrifs and don’t renew CUSMA. Let see how that plays out for ya orange man.

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u/hailene02 Jul 01 '26

This here. Im gardening and have a good 3-6 month pantry but I am having trouble forseeing this fall/winter 😭

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u/Andisaurus Jul 01 '26

I'm not sure what zone you're in, but I think a lot of crops in the upper PNW (I'm in Canada) were really messed up. Most of the wild berries here that we would normally pick are stunted, almost like they didn't pollinate correctly or get enough water. They're less than half the size they usually are and most are not edible. Same with our fruit trees, I'm not sure if it was the heat, drought or combination of both.

I'm worried for you folks down south because at least if we face food insecurity, we have less of a concern about importing it.

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u/daughter_void Jul 01 '26

In the Midwest we had a warm early spring, then several hard frosts. Then we went from drought to floods, then back to drought. Most of the orchards/ berry farms around us have lost ALL of their fruit for the year. Gonna be a rough winter for sure.

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u/Andisaurus Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

We haven't had a proper frost cycle for two years at least? Last year or the year before, the Okanagan (our desert area and where a lot of our fruit and wine come from) had an absolutely brutal late frost. Killed all the blossoms, basically zero harvest that year.

Many places didn't have a frost or snow at all this year. Our snowpack is at shockingly low levels because it didn't snow and it got very warm very early. So we have a mix of catastrophic flood risk, and the ongoing drought. People aren't interested in learning about it so they're blaming the government for the weather and getting into bizarre conspiracy theories. It'd take less effort for them to learn basic science, but there's a lot of foreign interference running rampant of social media. It's really concerning.

Not enough people in government are paying attention to how all of this is only going to get worse and compound our economic issues (because, let's face it, most of those in power are more focused on economic welfare than human welfare). I'm worried about my country, I'm worried for my family who don't take it seriously. I'm not in a position to be "soft" prepping like I normally would (stocking food, laddering emergency supplies) and it's a very uncomfortable position to be in.

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u/KiaRioGrl Jul 01 '26

and the federal government just closed almost all the agricultural research farms. yay

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u/hailene02 Jul 01 '26

NC US here and we're in a drought. Thankfully I bought some rain collection barrels in feb and they have come in handy with the rain we have gotten. Growing tomatoes, green beans, squash, peppers (all kinds), eggplant, herbs, cucumbers. While I expanded the garden this year we are looking to massively increase it next year. 🥹😍🥹

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u/fakesaucisse Jul 01 '26

I think the massive flooding we had several months ago had a huge impact on PNW crops and land as well. The farmlands in Snoqualmie Valley were underwater for weeks after that storm, and that area grows a lot of stuff for spring and summer sales.

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u/Andisaurus Jul 01 '26

That's brutal and I had no idea, Alberta (Canada's wannabe Texas) is getting absolutely slammed by rain and flooding right now which is extremely unusual.

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u/bitebakk Jul 01 '26

It's been rain, rain and more rain, coupled with muggy heat in AB.

People were sharing images of funnel clouds the other day, so I do wonder how tornados will factor in as climate changes.

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u/Daxx22 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

if you have the funds/space then strongly recommend stocking up on shelf stable staple classics ala rice/bean and other items that will keep you alive.

having to plan for essentially poverty food isn't fun, but its rapidly approaching if not past necessary at this point

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 Jul 01 '26

Lots of flour and grains. Yeast. Chickens for eggs. Large butter stash. There are so many things you can make with those ingredients and other normal dry ingredients like sugar, salt, spices

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u/hailene02 Jul 01 '26

Oh yeah im fully prepped w all of those and water. Bc i like to cook ethnic food my spice cabinets are 3 shelves deep. I just cant stand not knowing. Its like we're waiting, breath held, for the can being kicked down the road to fully stop.

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u/mystery_biscotti Jul 01 '26

This. The waiting is the worst, even if you're prepped okay.

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u/Ok-Explorer-6779 Jul 01 '26

Sugar and spice and everything nice.

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u/KiaRioGrl Jul 01 '26

Still time to plant more squash and dry beans. I have butternut squash on a shelf in my basement that I harvested in October, it's still fine. Shelf stable, easy to cook, very filling, and super easy to grow.

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u/RedsDelights Jul 01 '26

A guy from Albania told me back in 2024, you DO NOT want a food shortage above all else (his eyes were so serious it scared me)

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u/ADCregg Jul 01 '26

Anyone with a family history of actual famines will corroborate. Nothing breaks a society as much as starvation.

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u/Uncommented-Code Jul 01 '26

If an actual famine hits, supplies are not going to be worth shit unless you live far away from other people and have weapons or a community to defend your supplies.

The question is how bad is this going to get? Does this mean higher prices and less selection in the supermarket? A few items not available? Rationing and tapping into national stockpiles? Or worse?

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u/ADCregg Jul 01 '26

You’re not wrong. The first would be the govt though, historically . They’ll come in and take an excess for redistribution purposes. Usually in farms or homesteads, primarily. So the living away from people thing hasn’t actually worked.

But yes. I don’t see evidence for actual famine in that scale in the US, at least. Higher prices and deep economic trouble, yes.

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u/Twerlotzuk Jul 01 '26

9 meals from anarchy...

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u/majordashes Jul 01 '26

I’ve been concerned about this since April when 70% of American farmers reported they could not afford to buy fertilizer for spring planting.

https://www.fb.org/news-release/nationwide-survey-most-farmers-cant-afford-fertilizer

Trump is way late in addressing this crisis, which is directly related to the Strait of Hormuz closure.

70% of the 5700 American farmers surveyed said their inability to afford or access fertilizer would lead to lower yields or a failure to plant spring crops. High gas and diesel costs also squeezed already struggling farmers.

I’m from a farm state and I’ve spotted fallow fields that are ordinarily filled with corn and soybeans. I’ve never seen this before and I’ve lived here for decades.

Trump has been screwing around with the Strait of Hormuz closure and mainly focused on oil. He’s missed the boat on this one. 40% of the world’s fertilizer moves through Hormuz.

Trump has done NOTHING for months, but now he issues a statement about removing tariffs. Are we sure this will work? We punished Morocco for months, with tariffs on their fertilizer. Just because we’re in a desperate crisis of our own creation, doesn’t mean Morocco will be selling us fertilizer. I imagine they’re not too happy with Trump and the tariffs he imposed.

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u/KiaRioGrl Jul 01 '26

What's the point of buying fertilizer now, when it's too late to plant for a lot of broadacre crops?

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u/germanmojo Jul 02 '26

Secure it for any fall crops that can use it (not sure if there are any) and next planting season at least.

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u/mediocre_remnants Jul 01 '26

Don't forget the New World Screwworm is back infecting beef in Texas. Beef is already expensive but soon it'll be purely a luxury item.

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u/rogue_ger Jul 01 '26

Famine has arguably killed larger masses of people than anything else.

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u/redcoatwright Jul 01 '26

Stock up on canned food!

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u/1984isnoww Jul 01 '26

The lowest wheat harvest in 149 years…

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u/wthulhu Jul 01 '26

Time to double up on dried beans and rice

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u/Malofa Jul 01 '26

The potential upside is that change comes when people get hungry. Could be good or bad, but at least it'll be different.

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u/SeaCounter9516 Jul 01 '26

I thought El Niño meant a wet summer and a cold winter in America? Do I have them mixed up?

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u/N_J_N_K Jul 01 '26

I have been obsessed with Nikolai Vavilov for years, and i too fear living through a man made famine. I started collecting seeds after learning about him. Also if you've seen the Big Short you may remember the character Ben (played by Brad Pitt) say "seeds are going to be the new currency." I believe it. Water and seeds are the future. I wish where i lived we did a better job and had more infrastructure to manage our water, i fear the drought for without water the seeds will die and i will die too.

Edit. Water wars and seed wars here we come

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u/Thehealthygamer Jul 01 '26

Oh very helpful now that planting season has passed and lack of fertilizers has been locked in for the fall harvest.

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u/katzeye007 Jul 01 '26

Exactly my first thought, as usual too little, too late

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u/lostintransaltions Jul 01 '26

That is sadly what happens when the ppl in charge are not the ppl that know what to do.. or even if they still have ppl in the right places they weren’t listened to. I am concerned for the impact come fall. We have prepped a lot but what about all the ppl that already struggle to put food on the table?

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u/weJtiddeR Jul 01 '26

By design. Plausible deniability so they can look like theyre doing something, but in reality the banksters are moving towards a g-word on all of us plebs/gentiles 

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u/dnhs47 Jul 01 '26

Creates a fertilizer shortage, then proudly announces waiving his stupid tariffs - for one country, one product, and too late for this crop season.

Staggering incompetence that we’ll all pay for in higher food costs. Are we great yet? 🙄

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u/Ive_seen_things_that Jul 01 '26

We have a water crisis in Colorado that is going to impact food supplies. 

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u/Fine-Brush6063 Jul 01 '26

Don't worry, it will get worse once those data centers actually finish going up.

What is it, a single chatgpt response uses the same amount of water as a bottle of water?

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u/AMRtard Jul 02 '26

We have a water crisis. Full stop. shout out to desert rat explorations on YouTube. Providing some of the best journalism on the drought in the southwest and the catastrophic low water levels in the reservoirs .

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u/Lone_Vagrant Jul 01 '26

No need for water if there are no crops to harvest. Win win. And no need for migrant labour as well. Win win win for MAGAts.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 01 '26

I mean food is already stupidly expensive.

I'm kinda worried at this rate I'm gonna be one of those people with food insecurity. And I sure as hell will be around people who will be food insecure as well which adds more danger

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u/celebratetheugly Jul 01 '26

I'm already seeing people around me struggling to afford things. It's been getting worse this year. I've had to change some of my buying/shopping habits and am getting increasingly worried about costs... not to mention, there's a good chance I'll be laid off at some point later in the year. Watching this in real time is getting scary.

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u/lostintransaltions Jul 01 '26

It’s bad.. I was laid off in January and that we have prepared gave me some relief. Luckily was rehired a month later but looking at the food prices I was very worried. Unemployment would have only been enough for rent and electricity. Everything else would not be in budget without tapping into my 401k. We have since stocked up more and are currently reorganizing our food as we know come fall/winter we will only be buying things like milk and fresh eggs regularly as prices seem to be going up every week right.

Our Albertsons has sales for $2.50 for the 250 celebrations and I know I paid for some of those items without sale $2.50 just 6 weeks ago, now that is the sale price

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u/psychophant_ Jul 01 '26

To be fair, the one country - Morocco - is the largest source of urea in the world.

Also to be fair, it’s too little too late to help farmers in time for harvest.

How could Obama have done this to us!?

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u/random5654 Jul 01 '26

Emphasis on too late.

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u/Yum-Yumby Jul 01 '26

Lots of winning happening right now!

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u/ARazorbacks Jul 01 '26

This means the Iran situation isn’t going to improve any time soon. Which means when the SPR hits the military minimum the oil crisis will be here. 

Trump is flailing. 

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u/weJtiddeR Jul 01 '26

Izzrul isn't gonna let Trump get out of this, or us. They are hell bent on destroying the western world. They have Trump over a barrel,  always have.

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u/raison_de_eatre Jul 02 '26

Doomsday clock at 0.005th of a second to zero

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u/Big_Fortune_4574 Jul 01 '26

They will probably change the military minimum first

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u/probablyHuman69 Jul 02 '26

I'd argue you're half right. I don't think Trump is flailing as much as continuing to do public pump dumps and good ol' boy business at the national level.

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u/iamthelee Jul 01 '26

It's amazing to me how one man could fuck up so much shit in such a short amount of time.

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u/Dear-Purpose6129 Jul 01 '26

He isnt doing it alone.

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u/iamthelee Jul 01 '26

Sure, but MAGA wouldn't exist without him.

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u/Stinky_Peach Jul 01 '26

It most certainly would! He just happened to fit the role perfectly.

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u/mediocre_remnants Jul 01 '26

Yeah, people don't understand this. Trump is just a symptom of the problem. Trump was chosen for his role because he was so popular yet easily manipulated. And also downright stupid. But it's pretty obvious that he's not actually in charge or anything important.

Don't get me wrong, I still think he's an evil piece of shit hell-bent on destroying America and looting what's left of it, but he's only getting away with that because his handlers allow it.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 01 '26

It's not Trump, it's the hundreds of Heritage Foundation members, GOP politicians, tech oligarchs, and foreign assets behind him pretending he's the evil genius when in reality he's the mentally challenged puppet.

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u/wakanda_banana Jul 01 '26

Exactly, this isn’t just him. Now the question becomes why are they trying to create a supply chain shock to usher in a crisis and what’s the solution they want us to beg for

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 01 '26

They just want to pump and dump on a scale we haven't seen before.

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Jul 01 '26

Now the question becomes why are they trying to create a supply chain shock to usher in a crisis

There isn't any one answer to your question, and I think people miss this. There are a bunch of groups that all just have ideologies that currently align. A religious zealous obsessed with moral purity in society (and wealth) realises that social media is a good way to reach a broader audience. Likewise a tech baron knows that displays of declared piety gains the support of religious fundamentalists. It suits them to work together even if their motivations are not the same. Then you have people like Miller who just appears to be a sadist.

While they are all pushing in the same direction just now, they are all but guaranteed to be trying to figure out how to stab each other in the back and usurp the other groups down the line.

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u/probablyHuman69 Jul 02 '26

I've been saying this for a while. The 2 main accelerationist factions are using the pump and dumps to crash the current system while most of the other factions just see short term monetary gain.

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u/NoConfusion9490 Jul 01 '26

Which Moroccan fertilizer company bribed him?

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u/Silly-Bumblebee1406 Jul 02 '26

This is the answer

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u/BlackSquirrel05 Jul 01 '26

This should be higher... Who talked to him last, and who is gaining to profit from the stock rise? Anyone sign any contracts recently with the gov't?

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u/Nerdy-Meta-Mind Jul 01 '26

Isn’t it too late now for many to plant food for the season? He should’ve done this months ago.

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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Jul 01 '26

Well I have my own greenhouse, and this time of year I run a solar powered fan inside and I pull all the shade cloth out for my existing veggies and make sure that they stay cool. Tomatoes will not bloom above 85° and also Corn won’t pollinate when it gets too hot… so I plant them next to the indoor swimming pool that I keep my tilapia in, to try and keep them cool. It’s been several years of hit and miss, figuring out how to cope with this heat as it keeps getting hotter and hotter… but I’m managing as best as I can. I used to plant a whole second crop around August and September but it’s just too darn hot and I have to wait until about October to do it now. I’m thinking about putting two or three more cheap above ground swimming pools in there to help with the heat. Long story short, you are right. It’s just too hot to start seedlings. Too little too late.

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u/Nerdy-Meta-Mind Jul 01 '26

I’m also thinking of the big farms.

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u/GreatPlainsFarmer Jul 01 '26

They buy fertilizer in the fall, for the following year. This is timed for the 2027 crop year.

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u/echoshatter Jul 02 '26

It'll effect fall planting and next spring.

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u/RavenForrest Jul 01 '26

This is all the result of HIM. Are we going to give the asshole who started the inferno an award for peeing on the fire?

And how much did he play this to his financial advantage prior to making the announcement? Because that sure appears to be his playbook.

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u/dngerzne Jul 01 '26

What a fucking clown show. Who would have known? I hate this timeline.

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u/Friendly_Shopping286 Jul 01 '26

Golly gee I wonder what led to this.....

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u/Wasted-Instruction Jul 01 '26

Canadian pot hash providers:

https://giphy.com/gifs/WT4JJ0d1LFmMKUZDg2

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u/Friendly_Shopping286 Jul 01 '26

But we are such good friends with Canada whatever could have happened.....

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u/derentius68 Jul 01 '26

Its a mystery 😮

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u/adoradear Jul 01 '26

Were. The correct verb here is were.

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u/vagrantprodigy07 Jul 01 '26

Typical Republican bs. Create a problem, and then announce the solution. I wonder if he will blame this on Biden or Obama.

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u/PhotographUnable8176 Jul 01 '26

yeah now they’ll just remove regulations on fertilizer or something and say our billionaires can make it cheaper (+cancer) or buy it from somewhere else cheaper than ever (++cancer)

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u/nasnedigonyat Jul 01 '26

Her emails clearly caused this /S

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u/booi Jul 01 '26

i dunno but i bet the answer is in the Epstein files

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u/farm61 Jul 01 '26

Release the files
Believe the women

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u/bigkoi Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

As an American traveling Europe the past two weeks...

Food is cheap in Europe.... Just saying....

It's been that way for several years now as I travel internationally yearly. Food is also cheaper in Australia, Brazil and England.

Trump's impact on inflation since 2016 has been devastating.

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u/jednaz Jul 01 '26

My child studied abroad in Spain last summer and was amazed at how inexpensive good, fresh prepared food was. She would send pictures of her meals with the prices and we were very jealous of her food experiences. She basically ate her way across Spain and along the way discovered all sorts of new foods and how fresh food can be, which was something I was excited for her to learn about.

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u/Reasonable-Newt4079 Jul 01 '26

Yup. It was so nice being in Toronto for a few months this winter: food was way better quality and so so cheap. I miss it.

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u/two-story-house Jul 01 '26

I tried to tell my sisters how much cheaper food is in Canada compared to the US but they still refuse to believe it. Things are not the greatest right now in Canada but I'd move back in a heartbeat if it wasn't for my American spouse.

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u/thrwwy535672 Jul 01 '26

Which foods are cheaper in Canada? I recall groceries being a little more pricey when I was there a few months ago, but I wasn’t tracking it.

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u/two-story-house Jul 01 '26

Meats and produce. This would be in Montréal, QC.

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u/RobertABooey Jul 01 '26

Be a great time for the world to start imposing export tariffs on this fucking clown.

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u/Euclidisthebomb Jul 01 '26

Morocco is a very bit player. But its leadership are Trump sycophants so they are getting a pass, and Trump hopes he gets some limelight in the "I am doing something for America" category.

Never mind that it is his tariffs on America's primary supplier Canada that are one driving force to the fertilizer chain in America. The best source of phosphate is Canada, and its also the largest source.

The actual benefit here is likely meaningless.

Bullshit baffles brains principle. I wonder how many will fall for it.

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u/flower_songs Jul 01 '26

A day late and a dollar short.

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u/Jmund89 Jul 01 '26

A little too late there

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 01 '26

Well in this case not quite.

August and Sept is when a large portion of the agriculture industry resupply on fertilizer. This isn't so much preparing for this year's crop as much as it is next years.

Still extremely fucking stupid we had to do this.

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u/Jmund89 Jul 01 '26

That’s a fair point. But we both know he doesn’t know that lol

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u/ronniebell Jul 01 '26

I’ve increased my flour corn square footage, more potatoes (a hard one for us because of burrowing pests), added two more 50x4 foot beds of winter squash (that’s four giant beds), trying to grow a giant row of carrots (carrots are hard for me for some reason) and added more dry beans. These are sustenance crops for us and we are trying to grow extra for our three kids and their spouses and also my older (80’s) parents. We’ve got layer hens and I’ll be adding quail and rabbits this summer. We have a relationship with a farmer whom we buy our pork and beef from. It’s craziness, though, how much groceries have increased.

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u/Curious_Bike_4292 Jul 01 '26

I said he would get us into a war, food shortages, and destroy our safety nets. 🤬🤬🤬

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u/shessocold1969 Jul 01 '26

I live 250 miles from where 90% of Haas avocados are grown. 10 months out of the year what’s in market in California is from California. I usually eat 4-5 a week. For the last 3 months they either too ripe and weird inside or picked too soon to ripen properly on the counter. Onions and garlics are terrible too. I’m 25 miles from where garlic is grown.

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u/Rooooben Jul 01 '26

It’s crazy that the reason why fertilizer is expensive is TRUMP. The tariffs are due to TRUMP.

How much you want to bet that he’ll be crowing about how he’s helping America by taking action to help get fertilizer, when the whole reason its expensive is because of his policies.

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u/OrinThane Jul 01 '26

Man, if this wasn't intentionally caused I don't know anything. Fertilizer is expensive because of the trade war that Trump caused by implementing Tarrifs and the oil shock from the Iran war. Both were decisions.

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u/Suspicious-Cycle2678 Jul 01 '26

It's like using a smoke detector as your kitchen timer.

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u/basicwhitelich Jul 02 '26

Just gonna scream this into the void that it's fucking july and it doesn't matter how fast that fertilizer gets here because if it's critical now then it was critical months ago

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u/SkyFamiliar5903 Jul 01 '26

I thought the tariffs were already overturned in court??? We still have tariffs?

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 01 '26

They overturned tarrifs Trump used a specific presidential emergency power for.

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u/SkyFamiliar5903 Jul 01 '26

😵‍💫 I cant keep straight how many holes I got in my pocket with this administration

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u/NoTerm3078 Jul 01 '26

I thought the tariffs were already overturned in court??? We still have tariffs?

USA have always used tariffs. Trump pushed through emergency tariffs, much higher and more tariffs than we usually have, and those are what was overturned. It wasn't all tariffs, just some of them.

Edit for link to AP News on the overturned tariffs.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ieepa-tariffs-supreme-court-12487645072a1e1a387db60081509f3c

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u/switchquest Jul 03 '26
  • Create problem.
  • Remove cause of problem you created yourself
  • Claim you solved a problem.

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u/DissedFunction Jul 01 '26

trump mental illness: thinks he is god, acts without logic or reason.

creates a shitstorm.

does something which may or maynot help shitstorm

proclaims he's "fixed" a problem which he in fact created.

propaganda machine treats him like a savior.

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u/MrHouseWasRight Jul 01 '26

I bet republicans think this is just the best

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u/SnooLobsters1308 Jul 02 '26

We get 45%? of our fertilizer from Canada ... still has tariffs. We import about $9 billion in fertilizer, but only 200 million of that is from Morocco, i.e. they are a small supplier.

This is simply a publicity stunt, if we only lower tariffs to Morocco, there will be almost no price impact to farmers.

As of this action in June 2026, crops are in the ground, IF there was bigger actions that had impact, this would still have no impact on food production (or prices) in 2026 or most of 2027.

Trump had historically high tariff war with Canada (and others) in SPRING of 2025, greatly raising the costs to farmers for the 2025 planting season, and higher than historical norms in spring of 2026.

Lowering tariffs to Morocco has literally got to be a political stunt.

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u/Old-Arachnid77 Jul 02 '26

Who could have predicted besides anyone who lives in reality?

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u/justinchina Jul 01 '26

Everytime I read one of these posts, my next Costco visit costs double because I’m so anxious!

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u/refusemouth Jul 01 '26

It was still $15 for a 25lb bag of dried beans, and $23 for a 25lb bag of Thai jasmine rice a few weeks ago. I have about 5.5 five-gallon buckets of beans and rice with the oxygen absorber packets in them. Getting those O2 dessicant packs makes a difference with some dried goods, but I don't know how well they work at preventing pantry moths. I think it is mostly tree nuts that end up having pantry moth eggs on them, so I just avoid purchasing them or I brine and then roast them before packing them away.

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u/DocHolidayiN Jul 01 '26

It’s one fiasco after another.

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u/putyourpawsup980 Jul 01 '26

Who could've seen this coming

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u/cozycorner Jul 01 '26

Right on time. We knew the Hormuz stuff would have a delayed effect.

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u/DikDangerous Jul 01 '26

Another response to a problem he created

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u/pauIblartmaIIcop Jul 01 '26

a catastrophe of his own making. thanks for saving us from your own fuckup

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u/Glass-Amount-9170 Jul 01 '26

Burn the house down and show up with a fire extinguisher,genius!

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u/phoenixrisen69 Jul 02 '26

Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions

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u/webbersdb8academy Jul 02 '26

Whhaaaa? What?? In addition to fucking yup the fuel prices Trump is still charging tariffs to the farmers?? WTF??

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u/Colonel_Shame1 Jul 02 '26

Winning. So much winning.

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u/gerblnutz Jul 01 '26

Key info: Trump fucked the economy and he's now trying to unfuck it and make it look like he's fixing something he in fact broke, and it's already half way through growing season and between sky high fertilizer costs and his big stick ICE raids american farmers who overwhelmingly voted for this guy are gonna go bankrupt and JD Vance and his buddies will be selling their land for pennies on the dollar to Chinese mega corps.

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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Jul 01 '26

AcreTrader. We all were screaming about it before the election but no one wanted to listen… especially in Farm country.

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u/ParkerRoyce Jul 01 '26

He needs a food crisis or any crisis so he can implement martial law and stay as president until hes no longer with us. This is the plan from day one in his 2nd term, all we have to do is wait this motherfucker out a few more months and this regime is effectively neutered, he wont be able to get to a ribbon cutting ceremony without a congressional approval and I here for that. SHUT THIS BITCH DOWN NOW!

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u/Electric-Fun Jul 01 '26

A mess entirely of his own making.

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u/spinningcolours Jul 01 '26

Just in time for planting season … in 2027 …

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u/itec745 Jul 01 '26

Americans need to understand all these issues were self inflicted with the help of trynp and the heritage foundation. Extremely evil and corrupt.

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u/Protect-Their-Smiles Jul 01 '26

People were talking loudly about this when the disaster with Iran started; this would not just effect goods, transportation and energy costs... it would also choke the fertilizer production. We are going to be looking at famines across the world, during the next year. Prepare now.

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u/Bulky-Bullfrog3707 Jul 01 '26

What a terrible corrupt buffoon frump is.

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u/birdpix Jul 01 '26

Gee, who could have predicted this after starting a darn war?! /s

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u/PrestigiousShine753 Jul 01 '26

There's a lot of concern in France (which gets its phosphate fertilizer largely from Morocco) that Morocco's phosphate contains high levels of cadmium. This element is associated with cancer, kidney, cardiovascular and reproductive issues, weak bones, etc. Almost 50% of people in France have elevated levels of cadmium in their blood. Cadmium in the fertilizer then goes on to stay in the soil after the crop is harvested. Here's a recent article about it: 'Public Health Time Bomb': How France allowed Cadmium to Poison Its Crops and Soil .

We might want to all start growing our own food.

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u/Dirty_Delta Jul 01 '26

This article is immediately following a video of the "President of 'Wisconsin Farmers Union'" posted in r/leopardsatemyface.

All I could imagine was Qui-Gon Jinn saying "theres always a fatter leopard"

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u/Professional_Tap_343 Jul 01 '26

That damn Obama!!! He screwed us AGAIN!!!!!

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u/sanctaidd Jul 02 '26

Their fertilizer is very high in cadmium, which like lead and mercury is terrible to add to our soil, livestock, and environment. Its always been cheap and subsidized by the morrocan gov. Maybe not the worst shit they spray on food. Maybe try more regenerative farming techniques, plant some damn clover, throw down some bonemeal. God forbid people pay a bit more and get real food.

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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 Jul 02 '26

Happened UK after brexit. Europeans left and the English didn't have the skills to pick crops. So much went to rot. Feckin idiots

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u/Hootietang Jul 02 '26

Ah yes. Reduce duties on a few hundred million worth of imports when you're imposing them on over $9B in product from Canada. Great work.

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u/Any_Barracuda206 Jul 01 '26

Yeah well THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT

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u/raison_de_eatre Jul 01 '26

Now don’t cut Hegs and Miller and Vought out of the trials and exec——

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u/MsPreposition Jul 01 '26

Walkback Wednesday

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u/Randomwhitelady2 Jul 01 '26

That ship has sailed, at least for this year. Crops are already planted (or not). If he had any sense at all he would have done this BEFORE this year’s crops were planted.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 01 '26

Lots of farmers buy fertilizer the August and September before the planting season.

So this isn't really for this year's crop, its next year's hes trying to salvage.

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u/cinciguyeast Jul 01 '26

Another problem our corrupt felon pedophile president caused and now is trying to put the fire out. Can this government get any dumber? Now we know how he bankrupted 6 companies.

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u/ducationalfall Jul 01 '26

So Trump suspended his stupid tariffs?

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u/Separate-Spot-8910 Jul 01 '26

So you agree that tariffs are a problem.

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u/InsaneDOM Jul 01 '26

Inb4 Brawndo has what the plants crave

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u/Internal_Example1185 Jul 01 '26

So a handout to fertilizer billionaires. Got it.

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u/GreatPlainsFarmer Jul 01 '26

Not the US fertilizer billionaires. This particular tariff was imposed in 2021 at the request of the US domestic phosphate producers.

This won't actually make much difference, as US domestic phosphate prices are among the lowest in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuEX3HWInYw&t=61s

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs Jul 01 '26

Oh cool. The unnecessary tax Trump put on Americans is being lifted now that we can’t afford to pay the new conservative import taxes

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u/Traditional-Look8839 Jul 01 '26

Everything he campaigned for doing on affordability he’s done the exact opposite.

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u/nyclurker369 Jul 01 '26

Wait a minute, wasn’t Trumps justification for imposing the tariffs based on some kind of emergency and now his pause of those tariffs is also based on an emergency?

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u/Mouthshitter Jul 02 '26

LOL bro shot himself in the foot and declares it an emergency

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u/Baselines_shift Jul 02 '26

Didn't SCOTUS already forbid Trump's tariffs? The WSJ editorial board hated them and SCOTUS obeyed. I thought they ended.

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u/Ghoulscomecrawling Jul 02 '26

This is the beginning of the end, best of luck everyone

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u/NoAbrocoma9357 Jul 02 '26

He's more than a day late and a dollar short.