Lance

Farmer, retired Corn Breeder/geneticist, conservationist. Husband, dad, opa, Cyclone,

[Josh Turek @turek4iowa]

I just became the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s Senate seat.
Now, the Cook Political Report just shifted the race rating in our direction!

We have a generational opportunity to flip Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat. Join us: https://t.co/WBFGxximW6

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

If your candidate for governor didn’t win the GOP nomination tonight, you are welcome here. Iowans deserve a leader who lives in Iowa, who has worked for Iowans rather than for insiders, and someone that is committed to serving Iowa families. We already have more GOP donors than the GOP nominee. Join us. All Iowans - Democrats, Republicans and independents - are all welcome.

[Lance @IAFarmboy67]

@millermeeks I hate working with people that don’t want to be at their job but are just there to earn a paycheck. It shows in their output and hurts everyone else around them.

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@melton4iowa @TyroneDJackson He’s too busy trying to run as Trump for the Iowa Gov. He praises Trump in every single post on X.

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@Joe_Webel @iamyourfarmer The scientific safety data on paraquat isn’t very good. Known to cross the blood brain barrier and linked to Parkinson’s. Banned in over 70 countries.

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@MitchKi76922032 @terralhernandez @RandyFeenstra @RobSandIA He’s the only Democrat running for governor in the primaries. Who do you think he is a supposed to debate? He’s out every day talking to all Iowans and field questions.

[Lance @IAFarmboy67]

@SenJoniErnst Getting a refund because we have negative farm income thanks to Trumps and Ernts policies!

[Lance @IAFarmboy67]

@RandyFeenstra Sand would be a big improvement over the current Reynolds admin. Both CA and IL are in the top economies in the US and IA is the worst economy of all states in 2025. Your policies and support of Trump is killing the ag economy and putting extreme pressure on us farmers.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

It's funny how the QAnon folks finally got themselves a real-life pedophile cabal made up of rich white guys... and they can't even celebrate... because they elected one of the ringleaders president.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Conservative farmer Ray Crawford kicks the MAGA hornet's nest by admitting that Donald Trump's disastrous economic polices are destroying his soybean business.

The truth is undeniable at this point, Trump is killing this country...

“I’m not sure if I’ll survive this one," Crawford told The Mississippi Independent. "I cleaned out my daughter’s horse trailer in case I have to sell it. I’m bare bones, and I bet a lot of us are thinking the same thing.”

“This could be the end,” he added, despite the fact that his family's farm has survived since 1983. They've made it through economic downturns, droughts, and bad luck, but they might not survive Donald Trump.

“They are all terrified of losing their livelihoods,” Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson said of Crawford and other affected farmers. "I hear from the corn growers. I hear from the beet people. I hear from the rice people. If they can’t sell to China, Canada or Mexico, they are in real trouble. These countries have other options, and we’re chasing them away.”

Astonishingly, not a single American soybean from the upcoming harvest has been sold to China despite them previously being the largest buyer of the crop. Before Donald Trump came along and upset the global trade order, China was accustomed to pre-purchasing over half of the U.S. soybean haul. As a result, billions of dollars flowed out of China into American farming communities that now rely on that money to survive.

The current deteriorated situation began when Trump put tariffs on China in 2018. China predictably retaliated and placed a 25% tariff on soybeans. In his second term, Trump doubled down on his self-defeating trade policies and hardworking Americans are paying the price.

Notably, soybean sales to China rebounded during President Joe Biden's presidency, increasing by 55% in 2023 and 50% in 2024 after collapsing under Trump's first term. But now that Trump is back in power, that progress has been undone.

The American Soybean Association has estimated that U.S. farmers lost a staggering $9.4 billion a year during Trump's first trade war and predicted that the damage could take decades to rebuild — and that was before Trump started his second trade war.

“There’s just not any margin for error in the current farm economy,” said Caleb Ragland, President of the American Soybean Association. “Instead of beating each other up with higher and higher tariffs—it’s like punching each other in the face—we need solutions.”

The problem grows even more dire when one considers the fact that Mississippi farmers produce $7 billion annually and make up 18.6% of the state's entire economy. If their businesses collapse, the state will be devastated.

“You lose more than just seeing the fields planted. You lose communities," said Crawford.

"It used to be you’d have a bad year or two, but now every year is a shortfall," he said. “Every dime I spend puts me further in the red. I’m going backwards and I don’t have any other ways to explain it."

Crawford went on to criticize the Trump administration's chaotic approach to world negotiations.

"There have got to be better ways to make a deal. You don’t kill mosquitoes with sledgehammers," he said.

“They promise the moon and pay us moon pies,” added.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you knew that Trump's tariffs would be a disaster!

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

You’ll notice the Republicans who fear this campaign are just insiders.

The other ones — ordinary Iowans — said they are joining us.
https://t.co/A4XoYG3Q5D

[Lance @IAFarmboy67]

@RepAshleyHinson Iowa was just ranked as the state with the worst economy. https://t.co/C7NkPLenKN

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@SenJoniErnst @DOGE E is for Economic collapse. Joni supports trumps $10T loss in the value of businesses in the stock market and the free fall in Iowa soybean prices to save a couple $B to give to her friends like Elon. Joni no longer listens to Iowans!!!

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@atrupar Add the charts of corn, soybeans and meat down. She’ll be announcing new market adjustment payments to farmers any moment now on top of the $10B already announced.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins next to a ticker showing the Dow down 1,200 points: "We are really, really excited, and very grateful for President Trump's leadership."

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@SenJoniErnst @epaleezeldin Thanks Joni. Make mercury and smog great again. Hard to fit with RFKs MA healthy again.

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@JlynnMugs @SarahforIowa The NFA coordinates and provides training through the state fire schools.

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@JimmytheMan54 @SarahforIowa Pay attention. The house passed the GOP budget resolution on 2/25 which is the blueprint for 4.5T in tax cuts with almost 1/3 of it going to the top 1%.

[Lance @IAFarmboy67]

@MeidasTouch GOP would rather loose $3.6T in stack value in 1 month than their billionaire buddies pay that much tax over the next 10 years as long as they can kill healthcare and SS for the working class.