New Jersey just declared a state of emergency after an unprecedented cold snap wiped out crops across the state, up to 90+% for some farms.
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replythey are not failing, our Socialist President provides billions in handouts for Farmers so they gonna be just fine
replyWe're losing a lot of workers. Some might consider that a good thing if they hate the idea of a large exploited underclass (or just people of a certain skin color), but it could be a problem for farms if there aren't enough hands to harvest in time.
replyLet us hope this results in farms offering Americans better wages for working on farms. Only 1% of the retail cost of produce is due to labour. Farms could double wages to workers and it would barely move the needle on inflation.
replyI agree, but the farmers aren't pulling in massive amounts of cash either. There are record profits being siphoned from the wages of the workers, and from the profits of the farmers, and from the pockets of the consumer at the register. We'd all be better off if we tracked the money down and took it back.
replyPut Wall Street out of work and have the bankers work the farms out there in rural Conneticut and NJ and NY. It'll be good for them, put some hair on their chest and give them Real World Experience (tm)
replyFarmers don't see your retail cost in their gains either. That's captured by huge middlemen corporations.
replyUnless of course the farmers are themselves working for a huge vertically-integrated corpo.
Handout for American farmers or Argentine ones?
replyif they are large corporation owned farms as many small family owned farms are going to go bankrupt in the next 2 years because of the price of fertilizer and diesel and higher interest rate.
replyOh come on. What they are trying to do is turn farm owners into corporate farm employees. The handouts are just to keep their votes.
replyHe destroys trade relations so the farmers can’t sell their produce, then bails them out by taking on more government debt so farmers can dump soybeans in a ditch.
replyIt’s all such a clown show.