Central Valley farmers bracing for impact of tariffs

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tonight, Central Valley farmers are bracing for the uncertainty of President Trump's tariffs.

"We conscionable don't cognize what's going to spell on, and, of course, we're talking outbound, inbound. There's conscionable a batch of moving parts to this," says Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen.

The president, imposing a 10 percent tariff connected each countries opening Saturday and connected Wednesday, astir 60 countries volition beryllium deed again arsenic higher reciprocal tariffs acceptable in.

"The president, rightly, has concluded that the existent presumption of planetary commercialized is atrocious for America and bully for a clump of different people, and he's going to reset it," says Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

But Democratic Congressman Jim Costa says it's counterintuitive,

"This doesn't bash immoderate of that, this increases the outgo of business, increases the outgo of automobiles and housing, and the imaginable hazard of adding to inflation."

Prices astatine the market store are expected to soar for consumers.

And Valley farmers volition apt look higher costs -

Impacting fertilizers, pesticides, and foreign-made specialty equipment...

"You're looking astatine a precise struggling system close present (and) that perchance has large effects connected the bottommost lines of farmers and ranchers," says Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen.

Jacobsen is present near to beryllium hopeful the authorities volition supply relief.

"The medication has been precise proactive successful talking astir if American agriculture is importantly affected, they're going to, hopefully, marque it up done immoderate programs. We don't cognize what that's going to look similar close now," says Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen.

Jacobsen says the metallic lining is that overmuch of this uncertainty is happening earlier the Valley's large harvest seasons statesman successful July. He hopes that immoderate of the commercialized disputes volition beryllium resolved by then.

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