Got what you voted for. It’s ok, they have insurance.
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Does their insurance cover acts of megalomania? Because I somehow doubt that.
Most policies have a guarantee in yield/minimum money made. It will cover costs, but they won’t profit much if that happens…. And if they are farmers that are already struggling, then that will put them over the edge.. this shit is wild.
All I have to say is get fucked loser
During Trump's last term when he fucked over soybean growers, at least locally in my rural community, the soybeans didn't go to waste. They didn't rot in the fields or in storage. However, farmers ended up having to sell for way less than normal, and basically they didn't make any profit (many even saw losses) that year.
This issue with this year, again I can only speak to my area, is that by the time Trump was elected, most people would have already placed their orders for seed and the specific chemicals/supplies they needed for soy, so they're on the hook for it. They would have been facing the decision to take a sure loss (ex: if they didn't plant the soy they've already purchased and/or if they had to go procure some other crop seed and related supplies) OR they could go ahead as planned with the soy and hope for the best.
Where I live, most farmers aren't "soy farmers", they're just farmers. They rotate crops from year to year on a pretty rigid schedule, so one year it's soy, next might be corn, grains following that, then cover crop / hay. So, they better hope the weather holds up next year for whatever crop they were planning because I doubt a lot of them will be able to tolerate multiple years of essentially no profit.
Arrogant dickheads.
China has reached the point it can afford to say no.
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Seen ✓✓
Hope they starve to death on a bed of rotting soy
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Grab yer pitchforks n torches, frankenorange must die
Honestly might be really nice if we can decrease agricultural land usage. Might even cut back on red meat importing.
If the Supreme Court won’t issue a verdict, maybe, just maybe, the people who produce our food will.
Too bad there isn't a local population that could use the food. But if Americans can't afford it on their own, and with farmer's federal subsidies cut, farmers aren't about to sell cheaply or give it away locally.