Amid growing rhetoric and threats from President Donald Trump to close the US-Mexican border, the National Farmers Union (NFU) last week insisted that the president avoid such a fatal decision that would actually harm trade with a major agricultural trading partner USA.

NFU President Roger Johnson issued a statement in response to the president’s comments.

The statement said the following: “Regardless of the American family farmer, villager or consumer, President Trump once again risks substantial trading markets and our country's once-untouched trade reputation. Closing the US-Mexican border will have disastrous consequences for trade with our main agricultural trading partner, and the consequences will correspond to the many other trade failures that the president himself caused to our country: lost markets and lower prices for products grown by farmer families and ranchers ” .

“Many American farming families are already in dire financial straits due to the sharp decline in farm prices over the past five years. Unfortunately, the president’s inflexible approach to trade has exacerbated the situation.

To start filling a hole that he dug alone, he must work to restore relations, not make them worse, ”concluded the President of the National Union of Farmers of the United States.