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Comment on GRAPHIC: Trump support grew in America’s top farming counties despite first-term trade war by Generations work on family farms. With costs high and prices low, farmers worry they may lose it all. – BUSINESS NEWS
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However, Trump also increased his support this year among farming-dependent counties by nearly two percentage points compared to 2020. Farming-dependent counties are defined by the USDA as counties where 25% or more of average annual earnings were derived from farming, or 16% or more of jobs were in farming. Not only did Trump increase his support among farming-dependent counties, but more than 100 of those counties supported him with at least 80% of their vote.