Florida farmers now plowing over perfectly good tomatoes as Trump's tariff policies cause prices to plummet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Tony DiMare’s family owns 4,000 acres of tomato farms across Florida and California. Sadly, his Florida crops are not looking good — mowed over and left to rot, like tomato vines across the state.

But it’s not growing conditions that are the problem. It’s economic ones.

DiMare told WSVN 7 Miami that President Donald Trump’s tariff and immigration policies are driving farmers to abandon their crops.

In January, he warned that Trump’s crackdown on migrants would squeeze farmers, who rely on migrants to pick produce.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-farmers-now-plowing-over-130000347.html

[RandomNumbers]

1. Lousy headline

Important details from the article:

Threatened tariffs caused Mexican suppliers to flood the market. THAT caused prices to plummet. (Note - temporarily)

Meanwhile, labor shortages (read: immigration crackdown) mean they can't harvest tomatoes from the fields for a low enough cost, so they are left to rot.

[ornotna]

2. That's not what I voted for

I half expected to see that in the article. But I didn't. Still, you know this guy voted for him.

[Lovie777]

3. It is only going to get worse...............

when people across the country start to rise and protest shithole musk republicans, even the NG and military will join us.

[FormerOstrich]

4. Florida tomato farmers

have been cheerleaders for tariffs on tomatoes. Arizona farmers not so much. The projections on the impact on the tomato industry in Arizona is dire. But...Florida on the other had has welcomed them. Well I guess they hadn't thought it all through very well. Seems there are more variables in the equations than the MAGA world acknowledges.