That's why there are agriculture banks. They give out loans for that sort of stuff.
Posted on 06/16/2022 4:09:59 AM PDT by markomalley
This was already predicted by astute FReepers on here. If it’s too expensive for farmers to grow their usual amount of produce, they’re going to scale back. Let’s hope we can all get an “in” with a local famer’s market, because that’s where the remaining food will go if/when SHTF.
I have 12 acres. About 3 is cleared around the house. I have a 36 HP Massey Ferguson turbo diesel tractor. I have a 72” finish mower I use for mowing my field. I hooked it up to the three point hitch in early May. I have mowed once. I still mow around the house with my John Deere lawn tractor. However, with diesel being over $6/gallon I am not using the bigger tractor. Even mowing with the JD is probably $5/week in gasoline.
Not one of these stories will get the Dems to budge from their absolutely insane green policies. Their retort? “Get an electric tractor!”
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“Even mowing with the JD is probably $5/week in gasoline.”
I filled my 5 gallon can with 100% gas (no ethanol) yesterday for lawn mowing. $30.00, and that does 2 cuts. I may have to get some goats.
Corn, wheat, barley, cattle, chickens, you name it. All commodities prices are skyrocketing along with inflation. In case you haven't noticed, the little dustup in Ukraine has caused all farm product prices to explode.
Their production costs for fuel, fertilizer, and seed go up, but so do their crop prices when they sell. Farmers have and always will live on the margin between the two.
That's why there are agriculture banks. They give out loans for that sort of stuff.
Will Johnny Cougar write another song about Farmers? Or does he only do that when a Republican is in the White House?
Biden's Regime is quick to enforce the "Woke" solution, without any thought to the consequences. Farmers are just collateral damage to Idiot Joe Biden's "War on Fossil Fuels".
Not really all that cheap considering the true price is national security, our industrial base and the middle class.
I filled my spare gas cans yesterday to power my generators in preps for hurricane season. 20 gallons/$94.
I figured I had better go ahead while gas is at 4.70 per gallon for now.
I do see food shortages coming. Local stores won’t carry items that have to be shipped from long distances. Only short haul items.
As long as we can have drag-queen story hour, our globohomo world will be fine.
But it’s 100% of our food supply
There is a global market for raw agricultural products. Just like any other commodity.
Actually, my lawn tractor holds about 3 gallons in the tank. So, filling it up is $15 now. This time of year I have to mow twice a week. So, I am probably spending $10/week just to cut my own grass.
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farm fuels are a critical infrastructure that should be protected. I am of the opinion that it is critical enough that the US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Energy should be developing a market based approach that allows farmers to produce bio-fuels.
Bio-algae can produce stocks for both Butanol and for bio-diesel. Further, the by products can be incorporated into the nutritional supplements and food stocks industries. If bio-fuels are produced and processed locally, then farmers will be able to continue to fuel their equipment and could produce fuel for the trucking industry.
\But we know that the current “green” zealots would fight against such a solution.
Like I previously said, there are alot less farm fields here in central Wisconsin. Dont know if it is fuel prices, fertilizer shortage or something else. Many bare fields and others have not been plowed over from last years crops. And yet, I am sure the feds are still paying farmers not to plant.
https://thecounter.org/biden-administration-farmers-conservation-reserve-crp-usda-vilsack/
Ford Turner? Isn’t that a steering wheel?
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