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> They do not want to pay anymore than they have to for anything. Farmers are also being squeezed by their customers - prices for farm produce have been steadi
by spinningslate 5y ago
> They do not want to pay anymore than they have to for anything.
Farmers are also being squeezed by their customers - prices for farm produce have been steadily falling for over a century, see e.g. [0].
JD's commercial model requires both capital outlay in purchasing equipment, and committing to a maintenance contract that the farmer can't influence. So the farmer loses control of maintenance costs whilst also under pricing pressure for their produce.
I can't speak to your experience obviously, but farming for many is a (very) low margin business.
[0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=76964 https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoThat chart doesn't mean it's a low margin business. The manhours needed to produce a bushel/pound/acre of X has plummeted over the past 100 years.
- hackbinary 5y agoYeah, I get that. But also, there is no end in the claim of how hard the Range Rover driving, fee (private) school paying, huge farm house owning farmers in the UK have it. The vitriol that was extended by a couple of the associates (middle managers) to one of my programmers who was vegan was absolutely amazing. He just would ask if there was any dairy in something a they would go off on him. Around that time I also stopped having dairy for health reasons, but that was okay. I had previously been sympathetic to farmers and the dairy community, but after that, I was appalled. Farmers are getting what they deserve.