Trump Plans $12 Billion Bailout to Aid Farmers Hit by Tariffs

NYT

Par :Alan Rappeport · Kevin Draper and Ana Swanson

9 décembre 2025 à 01:00

The federal aid comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.

The money for farmers will come mostly from the Agriculture Department’s Farmer Bridge Assistance program.

The Tale of Silyan review – farmer adopts stork in delightfully cockle-warming mud-caked folk tale

The Guardian

Par :Leslie Felperin

8 décembre 2025 à 10:00

This film set in North Macedonia follows a farming family trying to survive in a cockle-warming story

Like director Tamara Kotevska’s previous feature Honeyland (which she co-directed with Ljubomir Stefanov), this sly, delightful film is neither a pure documentary nor a work of fiction. Instead, this blends folk tale and mud-caked vérité to tell the story of a contemporary farming family, the Conevs, in economically depressed North Macedonia.

Sixtysomething paterfamilias Nikola and his wife, Jana, have been growing watermelons, tomatoes and tobacco on the family land for years. However, the wholesale prices have recently dropped through the soil, prompting a mini riot by irate agricultural workers who take out their frustrations by destroying their own crops. Nikola and Jana’s daughter Ana decides to emigrate to Germany with her husband, taking their preschool-aged daughter with them, only to discover that most of their wages will be eaten up by childcare fees. They implore Jana to come out and be their childminder, leaving Nikola to try to sell the farmland for a pittance and find a job at a local landfill. Melancholy video-calls to the family abroad underscore his loneliness, but at least he has old mucker Ilija to talk to and share the odd bottle of hooch.

Bessent Says He Divested From Soybean Farms After Ethics Office Warning

NYT

Par :Alan Rappeport

7 décembre 2025 à 19:30

The Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he recently shed his holdings to comply with his federal ethics agreement.

China stopped buying American soybeans in response to President Trump’s tariffs, inflicting economic pain on U.S. farmers.

California pesticide agency could loosen restrictions on most toxic rat poisons

The Guardian

Par :Tom Perkins

5 décembre 2025 à 14:00

The anti-coagulant rodenticides also unintentionally harm wildlife across the state, including endangered species

The administration of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, is moving to loosen restrictions around the most toxic rat poisons, even as a new state report shows the rodenticides are unintentionally poisoning wildlife across the state, including endangered species.

Blood-thinning, anticoagulant rodenticides were significantly restricted when a 2024 state law approved after 10 years of legislative wrangling required the California department of pesticide regulation to limit the substances’ use unless data showed species collaterally harmed or killed by it had rebounded.

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