Iowa farming has been difficult for years because of rising costs
Well, then you need to cut costs, be more competitive. Next.
Tariffs increased costs of fertilizer, pesticides and farm equipment,
sigh Fly-swatters, wheelbarrows and some elbow grease. You got free fertilizer coming out your ass. It’s called input substitution, sweety.
and caused market instability
This is not a thing. Markets are perfect.
The related trade wars especially hurt U.S. relations with Canada, which buys about 30% of Iowa’s exports.
Hire PR firm if you want to increase your market share. Nothing is free, kiddo.
The war in Iran increased the cost of diesel by nearly 80% in Iowa,
Again, wheelbarrows, shovels etc. This is what built America. Why are farmers so afraid of doing honest work?
farmers to bleed money, consider taking loans just to survive and limit machine use to critical levels.
Sorry but if you can’t afford the upkeep you can’t afford it. If you can’t afford a loan why did you take it? You need to check your finances.
This is why we need to teach financial literacy in schools.
Why are farmers so afraid of doing honest work?
Listen, I’m a hard working American, I inherited this land from my grandpappy, and I’ll be damned if I break our longstanding family tradition of using anyone other than us to do labour on this farm
Its kind of funny to see the older generations and the ones born into it getting the shaft they tried to force on younger people trying to get into it. “You should take out a loan” was the standard phrase in the Agriculture college when I was there. Guess they don’t like it when the shoe is on the other foot.
You got free fertilizer coming out your ass. It’s called input substitution, sweety.
:Pooping deaths intensify:
the diarrhea chaos in Amerika is actually just a really smart move to increase fertilizer production
as long as everybody shitting in the field increases the yield more than the loss of customers dying due to diarrhea its simple math
No no no, that’s impractical, the more logical thing is to use crude sewage to flood-irrigate fields, which creates a feedback loop of more people with diarrea.
Circular economy 101
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Legit would not be surprised if RFK suggested this and people had to tell him “please stop”
Legit 1950s educational video take on the Dust Bowl. I shit you not.
My political path took a detour through libertarian town and this is indistinguishable from an unironic post one might see in one of those forums.
Bonkers
you should work for the democratic party. lol
Capitalism no food
“This is what America would look like under communism” and it’s just a picture of an American grocery store suffering severe supply shortages that are directly attributable to tariffs, trade wars, market volatility caused by the aforementioned trade wars and tariffs, as well as fuel costs
Is it beyond Trump to do an economic shock to farmers deliberately to force them to sell to bigger landowners who are his pals?
frankly, this has been the overall strategy for farmland since the colonial era.
support programs only began and receive additional resources to slow this process when it’s happening too quickly for political machines to accomodate and the rapid dislocation threatens their stability. news of farm bankruptcies and collapse of farm communities only really bubbles up to the national level when there are too many at once, but the process has been consisten for over a century.
when it happens slower, when suicides and diseases of despair aren’t clustering and the transition of ownership is orderly, it’s termed “improved farm efficiency” and celebrated as innovation and progress.
I support transitioning ownership to improve efficiency
i would totally be in favor of a support system that steadily buys them all out and converts agricultural land into a communal ownership model by paying the investment and labor costs associated with habitat restoration/protection, conservation practices, or whatever priorities are identified by the community affected etc.
right now it like, mostly helps petite bourgeois limp along until they give up and cash out to massive landowners or like, more successful, cash rich bourgeois who want to reconfigure themselves into some american settler-estate lordlings. like some quiverful VC/fintech douche who can plunk down 7 million to buy some huge farm for his tradwife to populate with overseers. those people cannot be allowed to seize control of ag land & watersheds, especially as we somersault into climate destabilization.
support programs only began and receive additional resources to slow this process when it’s happening too quickly
It’s like a slow feeder bowl for porky.
Nobody despises petty brshwá as much as big brshwá do
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Even if him doing it on purpose was off the table, it’s certainly not beyond those pals to manipulate him into doing so.
That’s the great thing about America. The system at one point was very intentionally put in place to let the ruling class fail upwards. Even if it’s not done on purpose there are a bunch of assholes who figure out how to capitalize on it. If it bleeds its news? Sure. But if it bleeds its also money to be made.
How would one brace for that?
Sell your farms and invest in Trump coin
sell all your farm equipment and buy palettes of Libby’s canned vienna sausages.
Figure out how much you’ll take from the corporate farms to buy your farm land?
Get one of those thermos cups and bring coffee from home.
Just plant more corn and soy. Surely you can’t go wrong by just planting more corn and soy. Leverage that economy of scale with more cheap, high-input, low-margin commodity crops. You’ll never regret growing more corn and soy.
Actually they’re cash crops but otherwise yeah.
Cash crops are anything grown for income rather than direct consumption. Corn and soy are commodities because they’re treated as fungible regardless of what variety you’re growing. #2 dent corn is #2 dent corn regardless of what hybrid or GMO variety you’re growing.
Only maybe 4% of the corn grown in Iowa is going to human consumption, and that’s mostly just corn syrup. It’s all going into ethanol for cars and cattle feed.
Yeah, there’s a Venn diagram between commodities and cash crops. Nothing is stopping you from growing commodities for personal consumption. It’s pretty unusual in the industrialized agriculture of the global North but fairly common in the south. Cash crops include anything that’s growing primarily for sale and includes most commodity production, but you can grow cash crops that aren’t commodities (basically anything you can’t find on CMEX).
Right, my bad, those aren’t mutually exclusive. They’re growing cash crops as commodities.
All those burgers gone. Like tears in the rain.
for 
Here’s the grapes, and here’s the wrath
the guy from TrueAnon is going to lose everything?
No, but he supports losing everything
Weird. If only someone could have seen this coming, and told you how you could have avoided it.
Hell yeah, death to the farmer
