LIVING_ Why America’s tariff-hit farmers still support Trump

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Why America’s tariff-hit farmers still support Trump

By Salena Zito
July 13, 2019 | 1:37pm



Paul Molesky, who works on an upstate farm, likes the president's "policies and actions."
J.C. Rice


EASTON, NY — Most mornings, Paul Molesky begins his workday at 5 a.m. — not on his family’s small beef farm — but as the operations manager for Allenwaite, a seventh-generation dairy operation nearby.

“I essentially farm twice a day, all day, sometimes I sleep. Sometimes I get home to see my family,” he says half-jokingly of his sparse downtime with his wife and daughter.

Molesky oversees 2,300 cows that are milked three times a day and helps maintain the equipment needed for planting corn and harvesting hay on the farm’s 3,500 acres. The 32-year-old also manages the crew of 40 to 50 employees who make sure those of us at home can pick up a bottle of fresh milk, aged cheese or tangy yogurt at our local grocery.

That is, of course, unless you have bought into the latest dietary fad and don’t consume dairy — a shift that has hit farmers’ bottom line with as much force as weather patterns and President Trump’s trade war with China.

In 2016, rural Americans, a category that includes all of America’s farmers and ranchers, overwhelmingly voted for Trump; he earned 62 percent of the vote compared to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 34 percent, according to Pew Research analysis.

Farmers have also been one of the hardest-hit blocs of voters in Trump’s trade standoff with China, which has retaliated with tariffs on American crops.

Yet, despite a flurry of national stories warning that farmers are moving away from Trump because of his trade policies, a recent Gallup survey showed that 53 percent of rural residents approve of the job the president is doing.

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