Every day, Seth Watkins wakes with the sun.
The 58-year-old farmer raises livestock on a southwest Iowa farm that’s been in his family since the 1840s. Like most farmers, Watkins is up and working before much of the rest of the country’s alarm clocks go off, feeding his cows and sheep.
Also like most farmers in recent years, Watkins has felt an undeniable economic squeeze, and the problem has only been exacerbated by policy decisions coming from the White House, including on tariffs and wars abroad.
