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Bad time to be a soy bean farmer, great time to be a soy bean smuggler.
end the kulak class now!
ogey :) how did I do joe?
thank you mr president this is exactly what I meant
another day, another bangerLeon Trotsky employed a novel solution to this: poison gas.
Lmao
Line immediately after that is amazing too
This largely solved the problem and Lenin could get on with the task of getting the rural population of Russia to do anything other than kill Jews, an endeavour which was so stressful it gave him several strokes.
At least they got a boot on them not whites and queer folk for God and Country /s
Every farm around here is proudly, deeply in the MAGA cult. Never made sense to me except when I see a lone church next to one of their fields of bull shit and human waste.
Homesteader here, modern farming has become a race to overpower the local monopolies while keeping your licensing under control. It is horrifyingly expensive at every turn. Most embrace copious amounts of debt just to produce enough for one year. We are talking millions of dollars of debt every year. This debt has made it to where farmers are the most likely profession world wide to commit suicide. This is why, when I inherited this land, I did not go into traditional farming but took on a homesteading lifestyle. This alleviates groceries and provides an occasional profit without the overwhelming debt. But I am lucky, many people dont know the traps or inherit too much land for that to be an option.
“bought the farm” gets a whole new meaning
The suicide rate is high compared to general population but most farm owners are dudes with guns which is also just the prime suicide demographic.
Die farmer die. Just wish it didn’t go to bankers because also die banker die.
Abolish the landowning class and their poisoning of our water reservoirs.Can’t have feudalism without land fully concentrated in the hand of the king.
Chapter 12 bankruptcies seem pretty chill. So you keep your property and the remaining debt goes away after 3-5 years. Why would you not go bankrupt?
I know you’re joking, but nobody is gonna lend to you anymore and Cargill et all can lowball your stolen land for pennies on the dollar so then you become a wage slave like the rest of us instead of some bootstrappin yeoman farmer pseudo bourgeois, which not only materially sucks but is also massive psychic damage so you jump into the thresher for that sweet escape
I’m not joking and I’m also in favor of stripping the land owning class of their assets.
They are chill, these headlines are never as devastating as they seem because farmers have a special class of bankruptcy that is designed to allow them to keep farming. Farmers in the USA, even non-corporate “family farms”, are much bigger and richer than many people think. The image of the struggling, poor, small family farm being the “norm” is promoted by the industry despite being outdated because it drives subsidies.
I really like Sarah Taber’s videos on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xon9A5_4tQw
The More Perfect Union video has a guy saying that 25-30% of local farmers in that area lost their farm.
And why would so many farmers commit suicide if it wasn’t that bad? The More Perfect Union also talks about how they have one of the highest rate of suicides, and in that community 5 farmers out of a few hundred committed suicide in a single year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02K72QFS0
Maybe it’s not as bad as media presents or whatever, but it’s not like it’s going great for farmers.
Taber addresses this in her videos and her sources are linked in the description. I highly recommend watching a few then drawing your own conclusion vis-à-vis something like More Perfect Union.
The TLDW on the suicide rate is that it sounds terrible when comparing occupations, but when compared with the cohort that mostly represents farmers, ie “rural, white men over 40 who own guns”, the rate isn’t exceptional. It’s a terrible statistic but it doesn’t say as much about farming as it does about mental health in general in the USA.
Regarding the economics, it’s terrible for everyone but farmers get a lot of attention because of how important the image of farmers is to Americans. That said, both personal and farm bankruptcies are still below pre-pandemic levels. Arkansas picked here because of the MPU video, but it’s pretty much the same story nationwide.
I agree with the MPU video that the farming economy is super broken, over-consolidated, and warped, but that kind of goes for every industry. Perversely enough, farmers make more income under Democrat administrations, but they make less in subsidies. So they tend to vote R. Taber actually ran for agricultural commissioner for her state as a Democrat but lost to the Republican incumbent.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
stripping the land owning class of their assets.
It’s not like shrinking the number of land owners is good, though?
Why not? Fewer class enemies.
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