Farm and Food File: You're not confused; up is down and white is black

Maybe the reason you see black when people see white or you say "down" when they say "up" is because–in these troubling times–black is white and up is down. Here's what I mean.On March 2, according to Reuters , an upbeat President Donald Trump "alerted American farmers to coming U.S. tariffs" on social media."To the Great Farmers of the United States:" Trump wrote, "Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!"Fun isn't what farmers were having then or are having now. Most, in fact, are having trouble balancing their checkbooks given that the price of almost every "agricultural product" is barely above or already below the cost of raising it.For example, October bids for c