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Liberals are usually against big agricultural, corporate farms, Monsanto, pesticides and the like. Plus farmers are usually deplorables.
Shouldn't not spraying pesticides and fertilizers on millions of acres of land, not to mention the thousands of gallons of diesel used in the process, just to sell some lousy soybeans to China be a good thing for the environment?
I'm all for farmers not doing those things.
But that's not the same as saying that farmers should go out of business. For one thing, farmland being paved over for suburbs and industrial parks is NOT an improvement. For another, I'd think even a conservative could recognize that it is not in the national interest to drive farmers out of business.
Soybeans are America's second largest cash crop. And until Trump started making noises, China was the largest buyer. We're not talking pocket change here.
It's not how "liberals" feel about it that's the issue. It's how the FARMERS feel about it - and how they feel about TRUMP. So far, they are still hanging with him, but if the trade war doesn't end soon - and it's looking like it probably won't - those farmers will probably not be so loyal to Trump anymore. His policies are destroying their livelihood.
Ken
What livelihood, farmers have become greedy selfish people.
They don't feel any loyalty to their country, only how much money they can stack up. They have corporatized their farms by specializing in one or two crops and mass producing them for massive supplier across the world.
Its their fault they become reliant on one buyer, they're not like the Yeoman farmers of old who had diversified crop fields and sold to many different buyers locally and used the rest as food.
Farmers need to change their practices or die. They're not poor people, they drop 700 grand on the latest tractor and then get pounded by debt. Maybe they should try buying less stuff and living with less.
Farmers are going broke, losing their farmers, committing suicide, ... and he's making lame jokes?
What is wrong with the man?
No their not, farming is a lucrative business, they make more than enough money to get by.
But they're greedy, spend more on expensive farming equipment they don't need, specialize their crop field eroding soil, and sale internationally to wholesale buyer rather than locally.
I don't feel bad for them at all. The poor rural people you're thinking about are factory workers, truck drivers, and small town business owners, not large scale industrial farmers.
Will soybean farmers be in the permanent dole like corn farmers?
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