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Don't farmers get reimbursed for livestock lost to natural predators?

• gorfian_robot 2y ago
  farmers/ranchers always wanna bitch bout something (at least in the US). and we like the myth/nostalgia of the small operations out on the frontier so that's gets a lot of play.
  • aerostable_slug 2y ago
    A local small farmer nearly got bankrupted when mountain lions killed most of his alpaca herd along with a bunch of sheep and goats. The cats engaged in surplus killing and didn't bother eating most of their kills (the state thought perhaps a mother was teaching a cub hunting skills, but it's not like they got an interview with Mom). Easy to talk smack until it happens to you or someone you know.
    • gorfian_robot 2y ago
      ranchers are not owed a predator free landscape. and creating one is definitely a poor environmental practice. betcha the next time they invest in donkeys and large guardian dogs like ranchers have for thousands of years.
• silexia 2y ago
  Not in the USA. There a variety of random government programs that give money in ways that do not make sense. It would be better to have zero government support and have the market naturally raise prices up a bit to cover things directly. Right now, government programs are set up to take care of a variety of special interests, most of which are silly and don't really help farmers and are very wasteful. I had four government people visit my farm for several hours recently and spend several weeks writing papers, all for a possible $25k well grant. The admin costs far surpass that, and most of the farmers using these programs don't really want what they are getting that much.
  • MrBuddyCasino 2y ago
    This does not surprise me at all. The world would be a much better place if the leftists downvoting this weren't allowed to vote.
• codingdave 2y ago
  Yep, they are in my state, and at least a few others I know of.