Posted on 06/28/2014 4:12:12 PM PDT by blueplum
JENSEN, UTAH — It’s easy to find the largest Chinese-owned hay farm in the United States. It sits 189 miles east of Salt Lake City, on a stunningly scenic bend of the Green River. After driving past the only gas station in Jensen, population 400, a visitor crosses the river, turns left and is soon surrounded by a meticulously managed, 22,000-acre ranch, lush with green alfalfa.
Nearly all of it is destined for China. :snip:
Simon Wen Shao, a Chinese-born U.S. citizen who’s a co-owner of the Utah alfalfa farm, acknowledged that locals had acted warily when his company purchased the ranch. Friends of his farm manager, Frank Biggs, immediately chided Biggs for “working for the communists.”
Shao said those concerns had eased as his company had attempted to build ties in the community, buying new farm equipment and modernizing the ranch. One of his first steps was to rename the historic property “Escalante Ranch” after the previous owner had dubbed it “Thunder Ranch.”
“I think local people liked that decision,” he said during a tour of the farm. “It sounds better than Red Dragon Ranch.”
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Michael J. McKee, a Uintah County commissioner, said that many local growers recognized that foreign demand for alfalfa helped raise the price for their crop, aiding the county’s farm economy. Still, McKee acknowledged he’d heard from a few constituents who want “our land here to be held by American farmers.”
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Wait I know that since “globalization” there has been less loyalty to our society, and neighbors among the business class, but didn’t this article say that the owner (though Chinese born) was a naturalized US Citizen? I see nothing wrong with him profiting off selling beef to China as long as he’s actually a loyal US Citizen.
>> “I’d like to hear from the free traitors on this post.” <<
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F__ the free traders!
Trading with your enemies is not free trade, it is submission.
Our moral sell-outs are costing us dearly.
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I looked at that a bit in my post #57
>> “They aren’t set up to be able to farm like the US can.” <<
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No kidding!
They buried their best farm land behind a dam.
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Exactly so. My dear old Marine uncle took a stroll across Okinawa once. Years later in a steel town in Ohio I heard reports of Japanese flags being flown over my city. Good thing I didn’t hear of this before hand, I would have been pissing on Japanese flags all day long.
>> “I know a guy who just gave away 140 bales of last-year’s alfalfa (to a horse-rescue outfit) because he couldn’t sell it, and needed the room for this year’s crop.” <<
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That makes no sense at all.
Cattle ranchers in Nevada, and California are buying up all the alfalfa they can get for “finishing” their grass-fed beef, which is the last great hope for cattle ranching.
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Affected?
That “damn” dam. Turned the Yangtze into an industrial waste sewer too.
Greenies? Where arrrrrrrrrrrre you???
>> “Careful. You are arguing for a free trade agreement with China.” <<
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LOL!
Since Nixon’s 1972 rescue of China, we have had a “bend over and grab your ankles” trade agreement with China.
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140 bales probably isn’t even one boxcar load.
>> “Thank Clinton first..” <<
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Sorry, but you have to go back to “Tricky Dick” Nixon for this one.
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It started as “pity China” (which was rather backward) but it kind of nursed up a monster.
You miss the point badly!
Meaning that China was rather backward.
What’s all this accusing about?
Might have been so little that working a deal with faraway beef producers wasn’t even worth it.
The over-all market should have had some effect just about everywhere.
Could it have been that he wasn’t in any open-ended contracts?
Meaning specifically that China had literally gone under, and freedom was about to win in a big way, until Nixon stepped in and bailed them out.
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No I don’t; it means the supply is not where the demand is.
With as many long haul truckers out of work as we have, it should flow easily.
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