Just hours after Vice-President J.D. Vance pitched a plan for Iran to spend unfrozen funds on US farm exports, Donald Trump insisted that American farmers were “very happy” with the proposal, saying he had received numerous calls of support.But some farmers dismissed the plan as unrealistic and accused the US president of misleading growers ahead of the midterm elections.Vance credited Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner with the idea, which he described as a “very, very good, and very classic Trump deal”.The White House is seeking export markets outside China ahead of the November midterm elections as US farmers – a key constituency for the Republicans – continue to suffer the fallout from Trump’s tariff war with Beijing.Vance added: “If Iranian assets are ever unfrozen, they’re going to go to make American farmers richer and to feed the Iranian people.” He said “we have approval over that process [of freeing the assets]”.