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Chickens one day feathers the next! I think it's great that they were able to share the potatoes before they went to waste. I have a nagging suspicion that no
by sigmaprimus 7y ago
Chickens one day feathers the next!
I think it's great that they were able to share the potatoes before they went to waste.
I have a nagging suspicion that not enough people are taking the threat of the looming food shortage seriously.
The borders have all but shutdown, preventing migrant workers from working on the farms. Farmers in turn have stopped putting crops in. Meanwhile the meat processing plants are being shutdwn due to the virus, resulting in a glut of livestock and below market prices for it, which might seem good for the consumer but what it realy means is the farmers wont be raising as many animals for the fall and next spring. On and on the food supply chain is spiraling down into recession.
If you think toilet paper was hard to buy and made people crazy, just wait till this fall when the meat is all gone.
Unfortunately I don't have the solution, worse yet I can see how it is all going to play out and theres nothing I can do about it.
Still, it is nice that the farmer shared the potatoes before they went to waste, too bad they couldn't have planted them all, we are going to need that food come winter.
- masonic 7y agoThe borders have all but shutdown, preventing migrant workers from working on the farms H-2A workers in the country are being extended. There are over 250K legal H-2A Visa holders alone.
- sigmaprimus 7y agoThats great, I honestly hope everything works out! I am currently living in Canada and things are not going so well up here. I have read several stories about American farmers suffering and losing crops due to the pandemic and labor shortages, though truth be told I read those articles on the internet and it is possible that if I looked for good news stories I would find those too!! Sometimes I get sucked in by my own echo chamber! Not to mention the fact that farmers in general have an incredible ability to find something to complain about no matter what the situation. Eg. Too cold, too hot, just right?!? Just right is even worse as that just means low prices...on and on it goes. That being said, I believe this article covers most of what I see going on, and to some degree the point that my original comment was trying to make but feel it is a bit more fair and balanced rather than a "The sky is falling" attitude like my above comment had. https://www.marketscreener.com/news/Arizona-Farm-Bureau-COVID-19-Pandemic-Causing-a-Downward-Spiral-in-Arizona-s-Crop-and-Livestock-Pr--30381685/ https://www.marketscreener.com/news/Arizona-Farm-Bureau-COVI...