***. “Wooden-headedness consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived, fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be confused by facts.”
[ Barbara Tuchman ]

This post deals with the. STUPIDITY. and. DESTRUCTIVENESS of Trump DICTATORSHIP policies toward American agriculture. Read this and pray. – pray YOU will have enough food. Read comments by farmers, here and elsewhere, that show how Trump DICTATORSHIP policies could sabotage the production of YOUR food.”

This post features excerpts from. “FARMS FEAR FALLOUT OF IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN”. [Emma Nelson, Trey Mewes; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/10/26]:

3]. “Even before Operation Metro Surge began in December, ag leaders like Land O’ Lakes CEO Beth Ford warned that President Donald Trump’s hard stance on immigration could stoke a farm labor crisis. Workers were already in short supply, and the industry was grappling with the fallout from federal trade and agriculture policies that have reduced incomes and raised costs.” [!!! read this again, slowly. This is Trump DICTATORSHIP stupidity defined]

5]. “A group of 27 retired ag and government officials recently wrote a letter to members of Congress warning of a “widespread collapse” of the agriculture industry. “Mass deportations, removal of protected status and failure to reform the H-2A visa program are wreaking havoc with dairy, fruit and produce and meat processing,” the bipartisan group wrote. “Those disruptions are causing food to go to waste and driving up costs for consumers.” [[this is called self-sabotage – or, STUPIDITY enacted to serve stupid ideological goals]

7]. “John Rosenow owns a 700-cow dairy farm…He said 13 of his 18 employees are Mexican green card holders….if federal agents were to detain his employees, he would immediately reach for the cattle buyer’s phone number…”We would have to get out of here within a day..” [YOU think Trump might want to talk to John Rosenow?????]

*** “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” [ Proverbs 29: 13 ]

1] “Minnesota farmers are worried they won’t have enough hands to tend livestock and manage crops this year, a consequence of…targeting undocumented workers from Latin America who keep U.s. agriculture churning.”

2] “ICE has recently raided dairy farms…and crop growers are worried they won’t have enough temporary visa holders to work the fields come spring.”

4] “If people employed on farms are afraid to come to work, or if ICE were to detain and deport many of them, it could spell catastrophe for Minnesota farms across the global food supply chain.”

6]. “Minnesota faces a growing worker shortage as its population ages and the state can’t afford to go without immigrant workers, he said….Communities are shrinking…”This situation is the worst thing that could have happened in Minnesota in this particular moment, in terms of the demographics.”

*** “Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.]
[ Thomas Jefferson; 1821 ]

8] “Some Minnesota farmers are responding to stepped-up immigration enforcement by supporting local immigrant families who are hiding and unable to work….”They thought this administration was going to leave them alone…Farmers are definitely upset.”

9] “LIke the central cities, Minnesota’s farm regions face an economic hit that is coming in focus. With immigrant workers afraid to leave home, farmers who depend on their labor and Main Street business owners who count them as customers are falling behind>”

10]. “When farmers can’t plan with confidence for the season, the entire farm-to-market pathway becomes really fragile,” Schneider said. “It’s really hard to recover from those kinds of shocks.. Ultimately, farmers’ ability to raise animals and harvest crops is about the most basic need: putting food on the table.”

***. “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.” [ George Washington; 1794 ]

{ NOTE: 10-15 years ago, a Wisconsin farmer decided he HAD to recruit and employ Mexican workers on his farm. – BECAUSE. – no native-born Americans would do the work. This is NOT an isolated statement. But, it IS a statement on the INCOMPETENCE. of the zealots running the Trump DICTATORSHIP. If YOUR. food prices go up even more. – ask about labor shortages on American farms and ranches. And, KNOW, from ALL evidence, this will be a consequence of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s war on the people who produce. YOUR. food. }