Ohio farmers allegedly lost almost $76 million in 2025 due to tariffs

Ohio farmers allegedly suffered from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, which resulted in them losing almost $76 million of their exports to the communist regime in 2025.

The Atlantic Council’s new Tariff Tracker report revealed that the Trump administration imposed tariffs on China and other countries. Economists and bankers suggested that, as a result, the economy was negatively impacted, according to the Ohio Capital Journal.

China stopped its purchases of American soybeans due to Trump’s 20% tariffs imposed on the country in May and resumed buying from the United States only last month, according to findings from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The Journal noted that China could begin buying from Brazilian farmers, which would do lasting harm to Ohio soybean farmers.

Trump previously announced that he would provide $12 billion in aid to American farmers, including those in Ohio.

“With this program serving as a bridge to the improvements President Trump and Republicans in Congress have made, it will allow farmers to leverage strengthened price protection risk management tools and the reliability of fair trade deals so they do not have to depend on large ad hoc assistance packages from the government,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins said.

Some farmers, however, were not very enthusiastic about the news, calling the $12 billion “hush money.”

Shelby County farmer Chris Gibbs, the head of the Shelby County Democratic Party and the Ohio Democratic Party’s Rural Caucus, said that Trump did this only to shut up the farmers struggling because of his tariffs.

“These hush money payments won’t benefit farmers at all. They’ll be immediately assimilated by the monopolies that control our fertilizer, seeds, and crop protection supplies, magically resulting in increased costs that match the payments,” Gibbs said. “These payments will go through farmers like poop through a goose.”

However, other farmers, such as state Rep. Bob Peterson, R-Sabina, praised Trump for attempting to help farmers.

“What the Trump administration has done with the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on tax cuts, on allowing small businesses and farms to be able to transfer from generation to generation, provide certainty there, has been more helpful than probably anything that’s happened in the past 20 years,” he said.

Gibbs agreed that Trump’s plan would help farmers, but noted that it would make them entirely dependent on the federal government.

“Where we are, because I’m struggling too, is by design. It’s by design that you are now dependent on this very administration for your survival,” Gibbs said. “You are now dependent on your neighbor’s tax dollars to survive, that same neighbor who is struggling to buy the very groceries that you provide.”