Big thanks from Brasil. Our soy exports are up like 30%
Corn and soy are about the only agricultural products that aren't extremely scarce this year...
Guess what the US exports instead of buying from Brasil? Nature wants them to fail too.
What I don't get is how come this hasn't translated to more plentiful and cheaper soybeans here for the local market. You can't buy fresh soybeans at my local grocery store. You can only get them frozen and they're about four bucks a bag. Which isn't hugely expensive but it's not exactly cheap either.
You think things are going to get cheaper just because there's an excess of it? No, no, that's not how that works here. You're used to paying $4 a bag, therefore you will continue paying $4 a bag or more until the heat death of the universe. I'll be surprised if it isn't $6 a bag by this time next year.
Anything not sold will, obviously, be destroyed. Can't have anyone trying to eat it for free.
IMO there's a good chance that Trump's second term will mark the end of the United States as a super power.
At this point that’s barely and opinion
Speed running the collapse of an empire.
It's guaranteed because it's basically already happened. The ramifications just take time to be felt
Guess the farmers will have to sell their farms to billionaires for half price now.
Go work for Amazon while Jeff Bezos uses your land to save money on groceries.
As was the plan all along.
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All because racism is like crack for 1/3rd of white Americans. They'll destroy their families and livelihood once they get a whiff of it.
Actually Argentina got $20 Billion so it's like 1,000x worse
And no those customers don't want to buy our crops anymore BECAUSE WE WERE GIANT ASSHATS so we better put our big boy capitalist pants on and find new ways to earn a living
I thought it got doubled to 40 billion.
You're right
So it's actually 2,000x worse
What's an extra 20 billion between despots? Like a rounding error eh? Actually unsure on the Argentina side but if Trump okays billions I think that says enough.
"Guys, could you help me kill US farming? I'll give you money?"
i'm sure if we all hit the pavement and go country to country we'll find someone willing to buy our exports. there's plenty of money out there for people who are willing to work for it
Customer retention is a huge thing. Customers are often hard to get and easy to lose. Piss them off and they'll find an alternative and they are not coming back. Trump has crippled us for decades.
But Trump knows that his base will still vote for him regardless of how his policies directly impact them.
Their desire for hate and oppression trumps (pun intended) whatever economic hardship they face.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Doesn't matter what his base thinks, or who they vote for. Guess my point is that it's too late to turn around and regain our "customer's" trust.
When the manager, who was approved by the employees, belts every 4th guy in the door straight in the teeth, that stores custom is drying up and it's not coming back.
More generally, VOTERS killed farming in America.
And the people who pointed out this would happen were laughed at or told we were being overdramatic
Congrats republicans, you MAGA'd your way to the downfall of America. Maka America Garbage Again
the people who pointed out this would happen were laughed at
Time to turn the tables. Never miss a chance to laugh at them
Let's not give them all the credit. All the dumbass nonvoters deserve their fair share of responsibility too.
Well the alternative was voting for Harris and I think she would have gone around and personally shot the farmers.
I definitely heard her say she was going to do this
Many people were saying it
Farming in America has been in decline as small family owned farms go under and get bought out by large multinationals and the elites.
This is why a responsible government is slow to change. Because move fast and break laws doesn't work for a democracy.
I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!
-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!
This is hilarious and I upvoted. But it's also not accurate, and presenting it this way makes Trump look like a giga chad tricking bullies into punishing themselves, when he's more like just king of a mentally ill cult. I won't take my upvote back because I voted for Trump one time 9 years ago and I can't take that back
"Temporary" my ass. They are going to beg for those evil socialistic handouts for the coming years. Simply because it is unlikely to get better.
Well yeah, farm subsidies aren’t new.
Store seed grow your own food if your in a city idk bro
Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First... Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.
kind regards, The rest of the world
That is the result of a hyper individualist society, USA is literally the cancer of the world and now it's hurting itself
Trump is bankrupting America like he bankrupted all of his businesses.
No the farmers that voted for Trump killed farming in America.
The "we" in the "we walled ourselves in" is not a fucking "we", buddy, it is a "you"
When this shitshow is over It would be nice if we could reconstruct our farming practices to focus more small local and sustainable farming instead of corporate conglomerates that damage our environment and wipe out biodiversity.
Lol might as well ask for the wholesale dismantling of all capitalism...
(Yes please)
I think Europe has better farming practices
This is why farmers shouldn't monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn't care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.
I hope we all like soy beans because that is going to be the only affordable thing in the grocery store.
More likely feedstock for bio-fuels, which also gives Republicans heartburn because the only proper fuel for their SUV is sucked out of the ground under pressure from toxic chemical-laced fracking mud, like the Good Lord intended.
That's one way to get the farms into the hands of billionaires for cheap.
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