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Posted on 12/04/2025 6:51:30 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
"Hansen-Mueller Co., a major Nebraska grain dealer operating nine elevators and four port terminals across the Midwest, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 17, 2025, leaving farmers, cooperatives, and agribusinesses across 34 states facing unpaid claims totaling millions of dollars. CEO Josh Hansen stated the court-supervised process would facilitate "an orderly sale of our assets for the benefit of our creditors, employees, and all stakeholders." The filing exposed vulnerabilities in rural supply chains and raised urgent questions about recovery prospects for thousands of Creditors." (Full story at link)
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Sounds like basic bad management. I can't count how many horror stories I have heard of small-medium (or even large) companies trying and failing to develop their own software with coders.
Of course, they had to put in a dig against Trump as well.
Well companies do not eat tariffs they pass it on to the Consumers and Business and have been for some time now. The GOP is not worried as they want to lose the Mid Terms...Old Trump has stated a few times as of late something big is coming in the 2026-27 economy I suspect as more and more noise about moving to the Gold Standard is in the works.
I hate the way they use the word “stakeholders”. Liberals/progressives/commies use that word to imply that people have ownership without having any actual investment. Stakeholders are people who have an interest that doesn’t extend to having put any work or physical resources into it. Their “stake” is imaginary just like most things that liberals/progressives/commies think are important.
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Tyson Foods to close major US beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle
In the larger scale of things, is the loss of foreign markets due to tariffs, or is it more basically due to foreign producers becoming more competitive as they adopt modern farming techniques*? Meanwhile, costs in the US are through the roof.
*Those techniques include very deep wells and vast area / scale irrigation over large distances — which isn’t always sustainable in the long run. See: Iran.
You really are such an insufferable ass.
The USA can grow plenty of its own food. It just won’t be cheap. See my post #7.
I also wonder how much of the swing is due to high immigration: My wife is a Filipina, has been here almost 25 years, and she eats, I’d say, about 90% Filipino or Asian style food. She just won’t adapt to mostly “American” food. :-(
Luckily, when she cooks meat dishes she mostly uses meat from Aldi or WalMart, but most other ingredients are imported, with many from the “International Store”. She also eats a lot of other imported foods that typically come in small cans and jars, and are expensive per oz.
Yeah, I cook a lot of my own food. I’m pretty adaptable — I’d readily go 50/50, or even 70/30 (Asian/American), but it’s just too expensive to eat mostly “her” stuff.
Do we import wheat? corn? More for us meaning lower bread and cereal prices. And there is supposedly a glut of corn on the US market.
Sorry the facts are disturbing you.
Turning food into fuel was always a failed idea...
When did blindness overcome you?
“I hate the way they use the word “stakeholders”. Liberals/progressives/commies use that word to imply that people have ownership without having any actual investment. Stakeholders are people who have an interest that doesn’t extend to having put any work or physical resources into it. Their “stake” is imaginary just like most things that liberals/progressives/commies think are important.”
The typical Stakeholders scenario is govt slugs from assorted agencies, connected NGOs, and a few people in business. Leavened with lots of DEI people.
Seriously though, the term is an intentional falsehood made to make the listener feel both included and empowered - like actual stockholders who save and risk their money on investments. The only true use for "stakeholder" is applied to a country's citizens and their better interests in their nation's future (see: masochism).
How the writer overlooked China buying up huge swaths of productive land and Monsanto's narrowing genetic diversity...
Blah Blah Blah
Consumers are stakeholders...
“Typical stakeholders include: Owners and shareholders, who are interested in profits and long-term success.Employees and managers, who care about jobs, pay, and working conditions.Customers and users, who care about quality, price, and reliability of products or services. Suppliers and creditors, who depend on the organization’s ability to pay and maintain relationships. Local communities and governments, which care about jobs, tax revenue, and environmental or social impacts.” (Via Perplexity)
“Stakeholders”
Good post.
I have found that the real meaning of the term is...
Everybody except me.
Lol.
“Stakeholders” = Members of The Big Club (that you aren’t a member of)
People who use the word “stakeholders” are trying to stab you in the back.
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