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BEATTIE, KANSAS -- Shuffling across his frozen fields, farmer Jim Taphorn hunched his shoulders against the wind and squinted at the auctioneer standing next to his tractors.After a fifth harvest with low grain prices, made worse last fall by the U.S.-China trade war, the 68-year-old and his family were calling it quits.
"We went through the bad times in the '70s and '80s," said Jim, 68, broad-shouldered and stocky. "In some ways, this is worse."
Family farmers flee the field amid trade war, sagging prices
Truly sad, but not a problem for Trump. He and his Republican cronies favor Agri-Businesses, so consolidation is inevitable. Families hurt? Too bad ...
The carpetbagger/investment capitalist/vultures will just swoop in and take over the land at bargain basement prices and push the owners out so fast they won't know what hit them, the way they do with other struggling companies.
Family farmers flee the field amid trade war, sagging prices
Truly sad, but not a problem for Trump. He and his Republican cronies favor Agri-Businesses, so consolidation is inevitable.
The carpetbagger/investment capitalist/vultures will just swoop in and take over the land at bargain basement prices and push the owners out so fast they won't know what hit them, the way they do with struggling companies.
AND those entities will almost certainly be majority foreign owned. MAGA!
You all want cheap food. Well, there are consequences. Freedom and independence is not free, and far too many Americans today are happy to trade all of that away for cheap, easily breakable garbage and cheap food laced with pesticides. If you want to help farmers, you can buy organic produce at a higher cost, or perhaps search for produce that comes directly from the farmers, so they can bypass the middle man (the store).
Don't forget, the USA is a major exporter of food. The problem is, the dollar is incredibly strong, making it difficult to sell produce to third world countries with weak currencies. Trump is not entirely to blame for what's going on, but it is understood that tariffs have consequences. The farmers were sacrificed to the alter of the trade war. Farming was never an easy way to make a living, and it's even less so today. It would be interesting to compare how farmers live in America vs other countries. Farming is not easy or lucrative anywhere you go, from what I understand.
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The carpetbagger/investment capitalist/vultures will just swoop in and take over the land at bargain basement prices and push the owners out so fast they won't know what hit them, the way they do with other struggling companies.
Do you even know any farmers? The information you're providing isn't even close to being correct.
For starters, most farmers are still doing very well. That land is in most cases going to be bought up locally by other nearby farmers since it's efficient to have land close by to your equipment.
Land is a pretty fixed commodity, no one just swoops in and buys it up at bargain basement prices, same goes for farm equipment etc.
P.S. There are also several good on-line sources on farm consolidation. You're about 30 years late blaming Trump for that one. Dang, just post how you hate Trump but don't pretend you know anything about the topic. Thanks.
BEATTIE, KANSAS -- Shuffling across his frozen fields, farmer Jim Taphorn hunched his shoulders against the wind and squinted at the auctioneer standing next to his tractors.After a fifth harvest with low grain prices, made worse last fall by the U.S.-China trade war, the 68-year-old and his family were calling it quits.
"We went through the bad times in the '70s and '80s," said Jim, 68, broad-shouldered and stocky. "In some ways, this is worse."
Do you even know any farmers? The information you're providing isn't even close to being correct.
For starters, most farmers are still doing very well. That land is in most cases going to be bought up locally by other nearby farmers since it's efficient to have land close by to your equipment..
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fewer younger people are lining up to replace them.
Maybe it's time for that farmer to grow pot. That seems to be a money-maker!
Not legal in Kansas (hardly anything is).
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