To the editor:

I wonder how farmers are feeling about this fall’s harvest as this year’s bounty is being tariffed into a purgatory of the current administration’s action and the do-nothing legislature’s inaction. The supply appears to be bountiful, but Trump’s hokey-pokey with his ever-fluctuating tariffs has left demand precariously vulnerable.

You’d think that a fourth-generation family farmer with a modicum of political acumen would have fought harder to get a farm bill passed for farmers in his district and farmers in general. We can’t count on Michelle Fischbach to do everything herself. (Yes, this is sarcasm. Maybe Michelle and the fourth-generation family farmer were obsequiously mesmerized by their devotion to 47 and his tariffs.)

I wrote the first paragraph after my morning walk on Sept. 27, nearly a week ahead of the Journal’s big headline on Oct. 2: “Farmers fear they have soybeans ‘nobody wants.'”

And as China has gone to Argentina for its soybeans, Trump is sending money to Argentina to support another authoritarian-type leader. Hmmm…? That country is coming out of this muddled mess “smelling like a rose.”

I feel for the farmers. I guess it’s a good thing that the President collected all of the tariffs to fund the subsidy checks he’ll issue to farmers with his “John Hancock” affixed at the bottom. Maybe he can buy some more of farmers’ undying devotion.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan