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Bankruptcies have doubled in the biggest farm states, with falling prices and the trade war largely to blame

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Midwest farmers going broke at record rates thanks to
Trump's trade war
Bankruptcies have doubled in the biggest farm states, with falling prices and the trade war largely to blame

IGOR DERYSH
FEBRUARY 13, 2019 10:00AM (UTC)
Farmers in the Midwest are filing for bankruptcy at record rates as a result of President Trump’s trade war.

Bankruptcies in courts that cover the largest farm states in the country were nearly double in 2018 what they were in 2008, The Wall Street Journal reports.

http://www.salon.com/2019/02/13/midwest-farmers-going-broke-at-record-rates-thanks-to-trumps-trade-war/




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