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
he s also saying that farmers are getting more support than they would have from china, but what are you hearing from farmers? well, riselisten, the last s years we ve seen a steady erosion of net farm income. net farm income across the country is half of what it was six years ago. every year it ratchets down. this trade uncertainty makes things far, far worse for farmers. what farmers are most worried about is the damage that s being done to our reputations that are going to have long-term implications for our ability to regain some of these export markets that have been lost. as i think a lot of these sort of on again, off again tariff kind of unpredictable events coming out of this white house really make us in the eyes of many buyers around the world an
build up markets so they could get prices out of the market instead of getting another bailout from upg el sncle sam, think in a lot of farmers minds is going to sort of muddy their reputation even further as there are more press reports about big farmers getting multimillion dollar payouts. we don t need that sort of distraction from dealing with the real problems that are out there, which is net farm income being really, really bad right now. this administration needs to be working to help improve it. all right, roger, thank you so much. roger johnson, really appreciate your perspective on this. thank you. the trump administration taking a red pen to the statue of liberty s iconic poem on immigrants adding a few requirements for the tired and the poor. plus, the president just claimed that the top republican in the senate now supports
you don t have to pay tariffs for companies when they move to the united states. it s simple business here. there s no tariffs to pay. many companies are already planning to move back to the united states or to move to the united states for the first time so they don t have to pay the 25% tariff. but they re moving to vietnam, they re moving to other places. we ll get plenty of them. our country must maintain a united front to achieve maximum results for our people. very simple. for years, farm income has declined. and we re talking about many years. this year, however, i was surprised to see this because i know that there s been really a trade attack on our great farmers, net farm income because our economy is doing so well is forecast to be nearly $8 billion higher than in 2016. did you know that? you re doing better than you did
planned and planning to move i think that the president is back to the united states or to very frustrated. move to the united states for the first time. i heard that was listening to so they don t have to pay the your show a while while i was waiting, brooke, i heard the 25% tariff. but they re moving to vietnam, comments from speaker pelosi. they re moving to other places. i don t think those will help. but we ll get plenty of them. our country must maintain a united front to achieve maximum now, speaker pelosi is entitled to her opinion and i respect her results for our people. opinion. i try to cut her some slack very simple. for years farm income has because she s in a tough spot. declined. and we re talking about many i think her democratic majority would like to impeach the years. this year, however, and i was a little surprised to see this president. i think the speaker is against because i know that there has it because she knows it wouldn t been really a trade attack on be