NEWLY REELECTED NEBRASKA FARMERS UNION PRESIDENT SAYS CURRENT FARM POLICY IS ‘NOT WORKING’

LINCOLN - Newly reelected Nebraska Farmers Union President John Hansen warned that current U.S. farm and trade policy is “not working” and leaving family farmers in a precarious economic position.

Hansen, who will continue leading the Nebraska Farmers Union after winning reelection, spoke about the challenges facing farmers amid volatile commodity markets and federal policy decisions. He discussed a recent $12 billion federal aid package intended to offset losses from tariffs, but said it falls far short of covering the hundreds of billions in value that farmers have lost due to depressed prices and trade disruptions. Farmers continue to face high production costs and unstable market prices that don’t reflect those costs, undermining their ability to remain financially viable. 

Hansen argued that the lack of stability and dependable pricing mechanisms in current farm and trade policy forces producers to rely heavily on government assistance rather than fair market returns. He stressed the need to rethink the structure of national agriculture policy so that family farmers aren’t pushed out of business and can sustain operations without depending primarily on federal support. '

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