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Farms are failing where? More than usual?
by 7thpower 5mo ago
Farms are failing where? More than usual?
- bdangubic 5mo agothey are not failing, our Socialist President provides billions in handouts for Farmers so they gonna be just fine
- xbmcuser 5mo agoif they are large corporation owned farms as many small family owned farms are going to go bankrupt in the next 2 years because of the price of fertilizer and diesel and higher interest rate.
- Gigachad 5mo agoHe destroys trade relations so the farmers can’t sell their produce, then bails them out by taking on more government debt so farmers can dump soybeans in a ditch. It’s all such a clown show.
- autoexec 5mo agoWe're losing a lot of workers. Some might consider that a good thing if they hate the idea of a large exploited underclass (or just people of a certain skin color), but it could be a problem for farms if there aren't enough hands to harvest in time.
- Gareth321 5mo agoLet us hope this results in farms offering Americans better wages for working on farms. Only 1% of the retail cost of produce is due to labour. Farms could double wages to workers and it would barely move the needle on inflation.
- autoexec 5mo agoI agree, but the farmers aren't pulling in massive amounts of cash either. There are record profits being siphoned from the wages of the workers, and from the profits of the farmers, and from the pockets of the consumer at the register. We'd all be better off if we tracked the money down and took it back.
- Schlagbohrer 5mo agoPut Wall Street out of work and have the bankers work the farms out there in rural Conneticut and NJ and NY. It'll be good for them, put some hair on their chest and give them Real World Experience (tm)
- fakedang 5mo agoFarmers don't see your retail cost in their gains either. That's captured by huge middlemen corporations. Unless of course the farmers are themselves working for a huge vertically-integrated corpo.
- platevoltage 5mo agoOh come on. What they are trying to do is turn farm owners into corporate farm employees. The handouts are just to keep their votes.
- pibaker 5mo agoHandout for American farmers or Argentine ones?
- crooked-v 5mo agoNew Jersey just declared a state of emergency after an unprecedented cold snap wiped out crops across the state, up to 90+% for some farms.
- jauntywundrkind 5mo ago[dead]