Pete Farmer doesn’t project the air of someone who might lose his business—what he calls his “identity.” The founder of Farmer Foot Drums, who builds craftsman instruments from a pole barn at his and wife Kate’s property near Cedar, boasts a light, playful energy. He carries the buoyancy of a young athlete, even though the entrepreneur and musician turned 50 earlier this year. But Farmer was clear: the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese and Taiwanese goods—and the boycott of products made in the United States resulting from Trump’s policies and threats—might cost him his business.
