pit that FPOS in a modern tractor and watch it's eyes glaze over...Yeah, who needs food?
pit that FPOS in a modern tractor and watch it's eyes glaze over...When he loses he should be expelled from the country.
He can go “Make China Great Again”.
Is he the kind of arrogant elitist New Yorker, who can’t survive more than 48 hours away from the island of Manhattan????
He wasn’t running for office when he said it. Which probably means that it’s what he really thinks.
What an @$$. Farmers and machinists, carpenters, electricians and etc need an education too. I know farmers whom went to college and have degrees.
What a Blooming Idiot!
He is clueless.
I’ve seen example after example of his poor judgement.
Shows Bloomberg’s arrogance. And he manages to be both creepy and geeky.
That's it huh? Nothing about soil Ph, variation of plants and types there needs, soil composition, types of fertilizer, pest control, diseases, sun exposure, moisture content, days to harvest, crop rotation, market aspects, overhead costs, etc. There is a reason why today's professional farmers need to be more educated than ever.
I doubt Mini Mike can even make toast.
Modern 'farm tractors' and their multitude of cousins (seeders, harvesters, combines etc.) are computerized to the max. The modern farmer follows multiple ground and aerial sensors to minimize EXPENSIVE dispersants while maximizing the CHANCE of best yields. AND even then a flood, hail storm or some other disaster can wreck him for a year or worse.
Hey Mikey, stuck your foot in it lately?
“even people in this room, no offense intended”
So...he doesn’t want to offend the people in the room but he’s ok with offending the hard working farmers of America.
There is skill and accumulated wisdom involved in farming, it is not all that simple. Maybe it is not computer coding, but there are many elements of judgment and business acumen that come into play, and it is a crap shoot just about every year, anticipating the elements are at least somewhat favorable, and having the skill (or intuition) to know when to go all in or cut your losses.
“More and more,” says Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, “agriculture is becoming an exact science. It is a never-ending science, with many angles that open up avenues leading in all directions. The successful farmer still needs to have a love of the land, and practical experience, and plenty of courage and determination; but in addition he now needs a thorough grounding in the science of his calling. In the future this will be even more true.”
To be successful, a farmer must know a great deal about his land and the products he plans to raise.
Every plant and animal is a complicated organism. He who wishes to succeed in the culture of wheat, rye, corn, tobacco, or cotton, for example, must be thoroughly familiar with the characteristics of the plant, its germination and growth, the diseases and blights to which it is susceptible, and the methods of controlling them. - https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-35-shall-i-take-up-farming-(1945)/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-successful-farmer
I’d like to see this arrogant idiot try farming.
I guess he’s so short because somebody forgot to water him https://t.co/WqpzQQa3os— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 17, 2020
My spouse showed it to me last night, and both of us laughed uproaringly for 4-5 min straight.
Basically he’s saying “Who needs farmers - I just send my staff to the local grocery to buy food”