SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. – The escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada are affecting local farmers in the Inland Northwest. Walter Schweitzer, President of the Montana Farmers Union, expressed his concerns about the potential end of family farms.

“This could easily be the end of the family farm,” Schweitzer said.

Generations of farmers are caught between falling prices and rising costs. Schweitzer explained how farmers and ranchers are being squeezed from both ends.

“We’re losing customers, we have to take less money for our commodities, and yet we have to pay more money for our fertilizer, our chemicals, our seeds, our parts, our equipment,” he said.

Schweitzer pointed out that tariffs and trade wars have shifted global buyers away from American growers.

“During the last t

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