The farmers are being fined $300 per acre and many are already filing bankruptcy.
Government agencies are deliberately destroying our farmers and food supply.
From X:
@WallStreetApes
I Hope This Makes The Idaho Water Shutoff To Farmers Real For People
🚨 Idaho is fining Farmers $300 PER ACRE for using water
Farmers are already declaring bankruptcy
Here are 2 farmers from eastern Idaho who have just received their water shutoff orders
“We just got our curtailment letter from the Idaho Department of Water Resources and they’re telling us we have to shut our eight wells off.”
“Shut our water off?”
— “They want us to shut our water off. — They want us to turn our wells off.”
“The reservoirs are full, yet we’re being told we cannot water 500,000 acres of crops”
“Thing. If you decide that you’re just gonna keep watering, they’re going to fine you $300 per acre. Well, if you’re just growing a crop like hay, it doesn’t make $300 an acre. You’re just gonna lose money on that.”
“you look on the curtailment paper it’s not just farmers it’s commercial businesses.”
They give lots of details about the water shutoff order (see video)
They talk about more locations being effected and what the result of that will be:
— “They want to shut off just in Bingham County. So Bingham County grows more potatoes than any other county in the state and just in Bingham County there’s $1.3 ish billion dollars spent in the county. And if that water was curtailed, it would reduce the amount of money spent in the county by three to $400 million.
So you wouldn’t just be putting out, you wouldn’t just be putting farmers out of business, you’d be putting people who deliver gas out of business, people who sell groceries, you’d be putting all the equipment people out of business, the repair, the repair men, the service men.
We just had people coming out, working on our pivots and stuff. You’d be putting all those guys out of business, which would hurt everyone”
“Trucking companies would go out of business. Yep. You have a lot of guys who have storages for potatoes. All those guys, they would no longer be getting rent for their potatoes. It would just devastate the entire Idaho economy.”
“There’s already guys, there’s already local farmers who’ve shut their wells off and their fields have already dried up because of this curtailment order and they’re going to be out millions of dollars they’re going to end up declaring bankruptcy and if the farmers declare bankruptcy the banks that finance the farmers are going to declare bankruptcy and then the whole economy is just shot. It’s literally going to destroy the Idaho economy.”
“We gotta get this thing spreading like wildfire to make sure everybody knows about this. Because like it or not, it’s gonna affect everybody.”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1804124590727430232
Govtard regulators don’t care about the lost farmland or people starving. Ain’t their department.
I suppose the questions are: Who’s running this clown show and what is their justification of water curtailment for an obvious significant portion of their states economy.
Doubly curious because eastern/southern Idaho’s snowpack numbers are very high. Up north, not so much, but that’s not where these farmers are.
the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources
So local entities, not feds?
Imported leftists from CA/WA?
Can the legislature stop this madness?
Putting private business out of business, so the government can take it over.
They are doing it in the Netherlands they want control
the water-lords are complaining
Everyone I talk to from Idaho is conservative. How do they end up with outright communist regulations?
I’m confident every dictator in has used starvation of their subjects to some degree to control their subjugated population.
I don’t know how this is happening in red Idaho, but, WEF has stated numerous times they want to end farming...this is a great start.
There is only one rational response
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
All part of the plan to destroy this nations food supply, which will also severely impact the rest of the world.
We’re on our own, folks. Learn to garden and grow your own, and become friends with local farmers and frequent farmer’s markets while you can.
Bill Gates is largest owner of private farmland in U.S., with acreage across 18 states
How can they tell farmers that they can’t draw water from their own wells?
Why are they being told they can’t?
Why obey and go bankrupt? The farmers should organize, get a team of lawyers, draw the water they need, and explain it to the court!
Sorry Idaho. I’m too sick and old to drive thousands of miles to protect your Rights like I used to!
You should have listened 25 years ago when we tried to warn you!
Please Please Please don’t let them destroy our bug and algae food processing industries.
So from what I understand, the surface rights owners downstream (Twin Falls and the Treasure Valley I believe) have first rights that supersede the groundwater rights of the potato farmers in Eastern Idaho (Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, etc.). Everyone had signed off on this awhile back, but I don’t think everyone understood exactly what was going to happen. The Water Board appears to just be following what the court order says - so the upshot is that there’s a lot of finger pointing going on and they’ve relented for this year. It’s kind of like in Colorado where Nebraska has first dibs on the water and you can’t wash your car if you live up in the mountains near one of the Platte’s feeder streams/rivers (yes, NE has first dibs and then the Eastern Plains and then upstream for the South Platte). I’m paying attention to this since we’re considering relocating to East Idaho (more medical options than where we are in WY) and have been watching the “East Idaho News” videos on YouTube. Hopefully things will work out, but the water owners downstream have to agree to let them keep using the groundwater to grow potatoes...
I’d like to know if this affect the rich guys...like JR Simplot company or the Chobani company, which I understand has a big operation in the Twin Falls area....