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this might be a good year for US farming industry.. finally prices will rise high enough for certain commodities so that American farmers can get enough margin to payoff the debt on their farms on their tractors. That is as long as they don't have to buy new equipment this year then they are hosed.
this might be a good year for US farming industry.. finally prices will rise high enough for certain commodities so that American farmers can get enough margin to payoff the debt on their farms on their tractors. That is as long as they don't have to buy new equipment this year then they are hosed.
oh that's not there story right now -- whoa is me ....we are the hardest hit...blah blah -- we need mroe govt. money.
this might be a good year for US farming industry.. finally prices will rise high enough for certain commodities so that American farmers can get enough margin to payoff the debt on their farms on their tractors. That is as long as they don't have to buy new equipment this year then they are hosed.
With diesel over $5/gallon you can betcha our food prices will rise and rise and rise as the gas prices do
I’m in Manitoba, the most eastern of the three prairie provinces. Last year severe drought across the prairies seriously affected crops. This year, drought continues in the western part of the prairies and the eastern part is soggy - REALLY soggy.
In Manitoba many of the fields are under water due to flooding. Apparently, as of this weekend, less than 10% of the crops in the province have been seeded. Normally it would be over 50%. The shortened season will mean yields will suffer or farmers will have to pivot to other, shorter season, crops.
U.S. is a wheat exporter, as is Canada. We're good.
The Philippines, Mexico, and Japan could be in trouble..
You might be "good" if you own a lot arable land and have the skill and tools to farm it. Otherwise, I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch. It's a long, long way from the wheat field to your grocery store. And your food making it there depends on a whole lot more than how much wheat is in that farmer's field.
And more generally, any of you who think a "large vegetable garden" in your back yard is going to keep you alive for long is completely delusional.
I’m in Manitoba, the most eastern of the three prairie provinces. Last year severe drought across the prairies seriously affected crops. This year, drought continues in the western part of the prairies and the eastern part is soggy - REALLY soggy.
In Manitoba many of the fields are under water due to flooding. Apparently, as of this weekend, less than 10% of the crops in the province have been seeded. Normally it would be over 50%. The shortened season will mean yields will suffer or farmers will have to pivot to other, shorter season, crops.
It seems like extremes are the new normal.
Silly. Nature is never always normal. There were droughts, floods, blizzards, heatwaves, polar vortices, hurricanes, tornadoes, way before man ever burned fossil fuels.
The dumbasses against globalization created Harley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930 that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers.
That worked out great for us and for the world!!! Personally, I would think the real trigger of WWII was this legislation given US was the manufacturing center of the world.
Hawley Smoot. Anyone? Anyone? ...
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