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Donald Trump
stated on November 6, 2025 in remarks at a dinner:

Walmart’s 2025 package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients shows a “25% reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between (President Joe) Biden and me.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 14, 2025

Brooke Rollins
stated on April 6, 2025 in an interview:

“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 9, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2024 in a speech to the National Rifle Association:

Food “costs 40%, 50%, 60% more than it did just a few years ago.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2024

Pat McCrory
stated on September 17, 2021 in a radio interview:

Ted Budd’s family used AgriBioTech money to help “give donations to these Washington special interest groups that are running negative ads against me in the Senate race.”

By Paul Specht • October 8, 2021

Survival International
stated on April 22, 2021 in a website press release:

With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 7, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 9, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden “will redirect the $30 billion” that Donald Trump “left for U.S. farmers to ‘climate change.’”

By Tom Kertscher • February 18, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on January 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Soybeans dropped 70 cents and corn 50 cents per bushel in two days, causing farmers to lose big money, “thanks to Biden’s executive orders.”

By Tom Kertscher • January 28, 2021

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on June 18, 2020 in a news release:

Says Donald Trump used farmers’ struggles “to push through a multi-billion dollar bailout program that was nothing more than a handout for large agricultural companies."

By Eric Litke • July 2, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on February 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Trump’s farmer bailout is now twice the size of Obama’s GM bailout. The big difference is GM paid their bailout back — with interest.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2020

John Nygren
stated on January 22, 2020 in a news release:

Says Gov. Tony Evers "proposed raising taxes on the agriculture industry to pay for expanded welfare programs."

By Eric Litke • February 14, 2020

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on February 19, 2019 in a tweet:

Farmers are declaring bankruptcy "in record numbers" and "the median income for U.S. farm households was -$1,548 in 2018."

By Miriam Valverde • February 27, 2019

Heidi Heitkamp
stated on February 24, 2019 in a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":

"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 20, 2018 in a tweet:

"The price of soybeans has fallen 50% since 5 years before the election. A big reason is bad (terrible) trade deals with other countries."

By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2018

Trey Blocker
stated on January 24, 2018 in a commentary in the Odessa American:

Says the Texas Department of Agriculture didn’t notify over 700 Texas students about a computer hack releasing critical personal information including Social Security numbers until 32 days after the breach.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 5, 2018

U.S. Dairy Export Council
stated on May 9, 2016 in a press release:

Says a WHO proposal "portrays milk and dairy products as an obstacle to a healthy start in life."

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 30, 2016 in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee:

"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016

Heather Moore
stated on November 17, 2015 in a Providence Journal commentary:

"Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year."

By Mark Reynolds • December 6, 2015

David Perdue
stated on October 7, 2014 in a U.S. Senate debate:

Michelle Nunn ranks agriculture issues as the 18th most important items facing Georgia.

By April Hunt • October 10, 2014

Kentucky Opportunity Coalition
stated on April 1, 2014 in a campaign ad:

Says the estate tax is a threat to family farms.

By Steve Contorno • April 3, 2014

Lincoln Chafee
stated on June 5, 2013 in a newspaper story:

Farming is "one of the fastest growing areas of our economy."

By Gregory Smith • July 18, 2013

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