It means things grown locally will drop in price for one season, profitability will drop on those products. Smaller less profitable farms/ranches will be driven out of the market because you won’t grow 17 acres of a product that you get a $20 total return on for months of labor. Tariffs are a direct shot at small businesses. They go first. Then prices rise to make the larger companies enough profit margin to deem their efforts necessary. Everyone suffers, the consumers, the small businesses, the stores selling them… the towns the small farms/ranches are from.
It means things grown locally will drop in price for one season, profitability will drop on those products. Smaller less profitable farms/ranches will be driven out of the market because you won’t grow 17 acres of a product that you get a $20 total return on for months of labor. Tariffs are a direct shot at small businesses. They go first. Then prices rise to make the larger companies enough profit margin to deem their efforts necessary. Everyone suffers, the consumers, the small businesses, the stores selling them… the towns the small farms/ranches are from.