Iowa Farmers Speak Out Against Congressional Delegation for Supporting Tariffs Hurting Their Farms

Berleen Wobeter, Tama County Cattle Rancher: “Hinson and the Rest of Iowa’s Delegation and Their Talking Points Are Not an Acceptable Response for the Growing Disaster Here on the Ground in Iowa”

Dave Muhlbauer, Crawford County Cattle Rancher: “It’s Just a Kick to the Teeth with These Tariffs”

You Can Watch Their Remarks HERE

DES MOINES – Today, Iowa farmers across the state demanded Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Zach Nunn reverse the chaotic DC tariffs that are creating a growing crisis for Iowa’s farm economy.

Farmers from around Iowa are calling for a change in the current leadership in Washington that continues to prioritize politics, foreign countries, and big corporations over family farms.

Last week, Iowa’s entire GOP congressional delegation voted to keep in place 25 percent tariffs on Canada that are devastating Iowa farms.

Watch What Iowa Farmers Say About Chaotic DC Tariffs HERE

Berleen Wobeter, Tama County Farmer:

• “We need to place blame on those responsible for failing us and speak up. The first Trump Administration hurt us with the tariffs that cost us valuable trade, which never fully recovered, and here we are again. And where is our Iowa delegation?”

• “Hinson and the rest of Iowa’s delegation and their talking points are not an acceptable response for the growing disaster here on the ground in Iowa. Rather than being part of the solution, they are contributing to the problem by supporting chaotic tariffs and trade policy and failing to pass meaningful legislation or a long overdue Farm Bill. We can’t function in this chaos.”

Dave Muhlbaeur, Crawford County Farmer:

• “It’s just a kick to the teeth with these tariffs […] our inputs continue to go up, whether that’s fertilizer, parts, equipment, and then lose our market share on the backside. […] it’s very bleak for a lot of farmers.”

• “There is no plan, and that’s where it gets to be really frustrating, and just see our legislators not work with Canada, who’s one of our biggest trade allies for agriculture and on both ends. […] It’s like all of our concerns are going on deaf ears.”

Ryan Marquardt, Madison County Farmer:

• “What we’re seeing out of DC is the current policies that are being passed or are being supported through the tariffs and just the way the farm supports are being structured [are all a part of the problem]. [The Iowa GOP Congressional delegation] just favor consolidation, continued consolidation, and that’s going to lead to basically bigger farms, fewer people on the landscape, fewer farmers on the landscape, and that’s going to continue to hollow out our rural communities, our rural school districts, and it’s going to basically undermine, continue to undermine our rural way of life.”

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