Debt is an important financial tool many producers utilize to expand their operations or improve profitability. The challenge is finding the sweet spot on how much debt to use, especially
agriculture is continued depressing effects on net farm income. that s what i mean net farm income is sort of like your or my salary. it s like what farmers have left over at the end of the year to pay for family living expenses and their health insurance and, you know, repay debts and those kinds of things. the median net farm income last year in fact, meaning over half the farmers above and half below this number, was actually a negative number last year. so there s a lot of financial strain. farmers are not arguing we shouldn t hold china accountable. farmers are saying let s have a plan. we should be getting the rest of the world united with us to hold china accountable instead of taking their sort of lone ranger approach and going after china while the rest of the world is sort of off doing something else. i want to have you listen to something that the agriculture