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Boone Co. Iowa | I attended a “Trade school policy” day yesterday in Ames hosted by the Iowa Corn Growers and U.S. Grains Council.
I was prepared to start making sure I “reimbursed” my corn checkoff dollars since is all my checkoff $ did was provide overseas trips to farmers.
I came away thinking that they were earning my checkoff $.
https://grains.org/tradepolicyacademy/
https://grains.org/news-events/trade-toolkit/
U.S. has not been treated fairly around the world. Since WWII, the U.S. has been the main beneficiary of a strong dollar and global trade. We pay for a strong Navy and have policed worldwide shipping.
Local guy who sold T-shirts and sports equipment to our local high schools opened a clothing shop in Vietnam 2 decades ago. Really doubt he is going to find 40-50 seamstresses in rural Iowa to re-open a plant here.
We “could” have usurped Japan and Germany after WWII. Instead we turned them into capitalistic democracies.
With these tariffs, we are headed back towards a pre-WWII world economy.
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Tariff issue is hard for me.....
