President Trump has delivered bumper year for US farmers

Government’s share of farmers’ net cash income will be the biggest in 20 years

A $14bn farm aid package announced in September brought federal payments to an expected record $51.2bn for farmers in 2020.

Farmers could soon be President Donald Trump’s only friends, as even his Republican colleagues express concern at his efforts to subvert the will of voters in the election won by Joe Biden.

Generous aid programmes pushed through by the Trump administration have assured a bumper year for US farmers, with record government subsidies projected to make up more than a third of their income in 2020.