Who could have seen this coming??? Surely the farmers had some idea which is why they didn’t vote for Trump! There’s no way people could be dumb enough to vote against their own interests and only vote on hatred.
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lowsparkedheels on
America’s agriculture and food supplies should not be monopolized. It creates the opposite of a thriving, diverse economy. [We went to Arkansas, more perfect union ](https://youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?si=5CZ_d9DyHPGZ-_EQ)
quitaskingmetomakean on
Lower margins encourage larger scale of enterprise. Farmers have been told since the 1970s to get bigger or get out. I’d have thought after covid we’d see the advantage of redundancy.
Jumpinghoops46 on
>Across the U.S. farm belt, these have become depressing times. Farmers are facing another season of low prices, high costs and difficult decisions about how — or whether — to keep operating. Banks are cutting off some growers just as they urgently need cash. Thousands of workers are losing jobs as meatpacking plants close and farm equipment makers scale back.
>Strain inside the U.S. farm economy is mushrooming across rural America, from unsold tractors sitting on dealer lots to agribusiness companies reporting shrinking earnings, as abundant grain supplies weigh on markets.
>Crop prices have been weak and production costs high for three years now. This year is shaping up to be equally grim, according to interviews with producers, farm economists and industry trade groups. And this week’s final government crop data showed higher output than expected while corn inventories reached a December record: another red flag signaling low crop prices and farm profitability.
>Any turnaround now rests on a fragile chain of events, they said, including a resolution of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, renewed buying from China and more favorable domestic biofuels policies. U.S. farmers would also benefit from unfavorable weather in rival grain-producing countries.
>”You talk to farmers and they say, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do’,” said Sherman Newlin, an Illinois row-crop farmer and market analyst with Risk Management Commodities. “I know banks that are turning away farmers, and farmers saying they can’t pay back last year’s operating note. It’s pretty depressing out here.”
FourScoreAndSept on
I read these articles and think…These farms are not feeding Americans in the traditional farming sense, they are row crops (soy, corn mostly) growing and exporting a commodity like any other commodity. Trade is everything, but not sure why I should care personally other than how I care for any American business.
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Who could have seen this coming??? Surely the farmers had some idea which is why they didn’t vote for Trump! There’s no way people could be dumb enough to vote against their own interests and only vote on hatred.
/S
America’s agriculture and food supplies should not be monopolized. It creates the opposite of a thriving, diverse economy. [We went to Arkansas, more perfect union ](https://youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?si=5CZ_d9DyHPGZ-_EQ)
Lower margins encourage larger scale of enterprise. Farmers have been told since the 1970s to get bigger or get out. I’d have thought after covid we’d see the advantage of redundancy.
>Across the U.S. farm belt, these have become depressing times. Farmers are facing another season of low prices, high costs and difficult decisions about how — or whether — to keep operating. Banks are cutting off some growers just as they urgently need cash. Thousands of workers are losing jobs as meatpacking plants close and farm equipment makers scale back.
>Strain inside the U.S. farm economy is mushrooming across rural America, from unsold tractors sitting on dealer lots to agribusiness companies reporting shrinking earnings, as abundant grain supplies weigh on markets.
>Crop prices have been weak and production costs high for three years now. This year is shaping up to be equally grim, according to interviews with producers, farm economists and industry trade groups. And this week’s final government crop data showed higher output than expected while corn inventories reached a December record: another red flag signaling low crop prices and farm profitability.
>Any turnaround now rests on a fragile chain of events, they said, including a resolution of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, renewed buying from China and more favorable domestic biofuels policies. U.S. farmers would also benefit from unfavorable weather in rival grain-producing countries.
>”You talk to farmers and they say, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do’,” said Sherman Newlin, an Illinois row-crop farmer and market analyst with Risk Management Commodities. “I know banks that are turning away farmers, and farmers saying they can’t pay back last year’s operating note. It’s pretty depressing out here.”
I read these articles and think…These farms are not feeding Americans in the traditional farming sense, they are row crops (soy, corn mostly) growing and exporting a commodity like any other commodity. Trade is everything, but not sure why I should care personally other than how I care for any American business.