A Pennsylvania dairy and soybean farmer who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 will be speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the party's convention later this week.Rick Telesz, a registered Democrat who voted for Mr Trump in 2016 because he believed the president would "
A Pennsylvania dairy and soybean farmer who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 will be speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the party's convention later this week.
"He's a hell of a salesman. And a tremendous con man. He conned me," Mr Telesz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Keeping up with the agricultural giants to produce soybean and dairy requires farmers to earn profits year over year so they can invest in new, ever-improving equipment.“Is farming going to disappear tomorrow? No,” he told the Gazette. “But if these trends continue, I could very possibly be the last generation on this family farm. ... It will disappear. It cannot sustain.”
"When you start taking a 20 percent cut, it can be very stressful. It is stressful," Mr Telesz told a local ABC News affiliate in 2019."I would rather have a free and open market," Mr Telesz said.
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