Yup. Doesnt matter TCS boy..
Have a nice day paying over 5 bucks a gallon for fuel to cut that wheat jackweed. Have a nice time paying over 5 bucks a gsllon for fuel to truck that grain jackweed.
Enjoying your meat prices jackweed? Hows those grocery prices going for you.
All of this because of your meglomaniac in chief.
And your the one mentioning gorebull warming.
TCS boy.
The number of farmers is so low now that it cannot be their individual votes that are important to politicians, even with the electoral college balancing act between high pop urban and low population ag regions. What is important to politicians to extract from agricultural areas isn’t your vote, it is money, and so family farms’ needs are ignored by both parties in favor of pleasing the interests of deeper pockets- big corporate ag and related businesses that benefit from ever more government- dependent monoculture. That is why neither party seems to mind farmland being sold to Chinese investors and aren’t interested in incentivizing people to take up farming. They really wouldn’t care if just one company owned it all, so long as it donates to their campaigns.
The country is being hammered by the devaluation of money and ag welfare policies (ethanol mandates and subsidies) that caused farmers to put all their effort into fewer types of crops and depend on government instead of diversification so they won’t have to. The ag business didn’t mind squeezing the non farming people by foisting ethanol on them, which essentially taxed every vehicle with imposed inefficiency and more repair costs, and led to landowners converting land that one grew a multitude of different crops and orchards and herds into corn, corn, and more corn. Instead of calling for government to get out of their affairs, too many cry for more involvement.
I had to switch to Mexican beef in 2014 or 2015. Two years ago the store that sold that went under, bought by Aldis, so after that, beef was mostly off the menu. Dogs eat more beef than some Americans can because international corporations that seem to monopolize the processing biz now figured out they can make bigger profits on pet food than by selling soup bones to the frugal or poor. Remember when oxtail and beef shanks and marrow bone was a cheap go-to to feed a family? Not any more- it is gourmet now , even sweet potatoes and squash are high.
This crap was going on well before Trump tariffs and real immigration enforcement. The problem is government. It is not the solution.