President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending law, known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” includes subsidies for some Georgia farmers, but tariffs could threaten to undermine some of those gains.

The law includes more than $60 billion in spending to support agriculture over the next decade, with most of that expected to prop up prices for 22 crops, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The law increases subsidies by 10-20%, which are paid if market prices for a particular crop dip below a reference price. The subsidies in the law protect some of Georgia’s most valuable crops, including peanuts and cotton, while increasing the number of eligible acres.

Bart Davis, who grows cotton, corn and peanuts and raises beef cattle on around 8,000 acres of land, 200 miles south of Atlanta

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