Posted on 09/04/2025 8:52:35 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
The Chinese will be ready to buy through their surrogates any land that becomes available. Better to hold land than Treasury notes.
... Bill Gates....................
When farmers are getting wiped out, it’s difficult if not impossible to keep acreage off the market.
Sounds to me like the farmers need the government to get their snouts out of their business and reduce the innumerable regulations and requirements and thereby their costs. Not just in the farming business but every industry that touches theirs.
My Okla Rep Lucas GOPe, is all about getting his farm bills passed, no matter what. He works with the Dememy and half the budget doesn’t help farmers, but is for welfare, EBT’s, Wick payments, school food handouts and the like.
My brother-in-law is a corn seed salesman. I am in the energy business. We both lament that the price of corn and the price of natural gas are about the same when we began our careers in the late 80’s. It is even worse if inflation-adjusted.
“rice prices spiraled downward to an eight-year low”
Well I can’t say we are seeing this in the super markets that’s for darn sure - I just bought rice because it was on sale and the sales price (about 10% lower then regular) was still only around where it was 3 years ago.
Well, I farmed for a year and grew a crop of corn
That stretched as far as the eye can see
That’s a whole lot of cornflakes,
Near enough to feed New York till 1973
Cultivation is my station and the nation
Buys my corn from me immediately
And holding sixty thousand bucks, I watch as dumper trucks
Tip New York’s corn flakes in the sea
Now I’m a farmer, and I’m digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
Now I’m a farmer, and I’m digging, digging, digging, digging, digging
It’s alarming how charming it is to be a-farming
How calming and balming the effect of the air
-The Who
Disclaimer: we buy from some small local farmers who have nothing to do with this. But, here is an indication of the BIG in farming -- as in Cargill, Monsanto, Bayer, and even some hedge funds and more:
When I read $100 billion Cargill into the "send us money" messages, it rings other than they likely intend.Top 8 Biggest Agricultural Companies in USA [2025 Ranking] Agrolearner, n.d.
Top Agriculture Companies in United States Ensun, n.d.
Complete List of Agriculture Companies in the US USearch, n.d.
The Agricultural Council of Arkansas "Who We Are" includes sponsors like Bayer and Tyson Foods (a Clinton favorite, since Clintons were in Arkansas and Tyson was among their big donors),
I'm not in favor of the Red Chinese owning U.S. land.
That said, we can always nationalize their ownership if they get too muscular.
They would probably sue for just compensation but, in any event, they are not going to haul the land back to mainland China.
That's another thing we need to do: refer to them as either Red China or mainland China.
Sounds like Ark farmers are begging for government cash.
How about...NO!
Amen.
I would support helping farmers with obtaining automation for their picking needs.
How is Arkansas targeted?
Time to end the mystique and sacredness of farming. It is a business and mostly large corporations at that. As with any business we should cease immediately all subsidies loans guarantees land banks etc but also cease all the regs and governemt nonsense.
No one not even farmers have a guaranteed way of life. My family has moved on from farming then rust belt manufacturing. No one whined that we should be subsidized to continue are preferred occupations.
Agricultural output has been a means of coercing other nations. That sounds ugly so instead it's "mystique and sacredness".
“Everybody should have fair access to Reardon Steel.”
I don’t buy it. I could not even find one crop named. I did just scan the long article.
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