After a year of near-record small farm bankruptcies and a major spike in farmer suicides, rural America finally appears to be getting some relief. On December 8, President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion bailout for hard-hit growers of row crops following tariffs and lost export markets. Two days later, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolled out a $700 million pilot program to support soil health and regenerative agriculture.

But look beneath these headlines, and a different story is emerging. Trump administration policies are still undermining the financial and physical health of American farmers. A modest bailout—a fraction of the aid the administration recently directed to farmers in Argentina—is covering up syste

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