Some farms are complaining about the lack of labor or collapse of market prices and their good are going to waste. Lets discuss what is growing and where so we can forecast potential food shortages.
Naturally most Yas Forums users are unaffected by this because they get their food from supermarkets and don't stupid farmers. (this part is bait you retards)
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The average age of a farmer in the US is 58.
This is for Australia but could something similar be happening in the USA?
my family has a rep agency for farmers and ag supply. we're seeing an increasing in business and staple orders (bulk standard supplies) are normal and coming in.
t. middle of the country
Could care less, they hire spics and most are big agricultural corp.
Let it burn. The time of the traditional small family homestead is upon us.
Unemployable negroes is what Israel's largest colony produces the most of.
only expensive crops which need to be picked by hand, like strawberries and some vegetables, will be screwed up . the important stuff like corn, wheat, basedbeans and so on, are totally mechanized.
Do you think many farmers will still plant soi beans this year after getting burned last year because of Chinese trade negotiations?
We don’t need that many farms raping the land to grow stuff we don’t need and toss out anyway
Also stop importing spics
Nothing. I deliver water to ag fags. We’re turning our canals back on in about a week
I have little doubt that many people in this country have no use for fresh fruits and vegetables. However those are nutritious and cheap foods if you don't buy your dinner in a can or frozen foods section.
How did you develop this plan?
>are totally mechanized.
Which means they all are fueled by debt. What happens when farmers can't pay banks for that 500,000 dollar combine?
>collapse of market prices and their good are going to waste.
American farmers*; I refuse to sell my product for what people are willing to buy it for and will instead hold on to it and let it rot in protest
*not actual farmers, giant agricorp with a hand in every senator's pocket
>What happens when farmers can't pay banks for that 500,000 dollar combine?
Insurance fraud?
>Insurance fraud?
We're in Yas Forums, it's called "Jewish Lightning"
Strawberries are still pretty cheap at the roadside stands
Cry harder
Maybe they should pay more, considering how much money they make from subsidies and save on underpaying illegal aliens.
This "efficient" supply chain had no way to deal with all the fresh fish because restauuants were closed so a few weeks ago when I couldn't buy beef or chicken much of the fish went to waste.
idk where you are but in california i don't think it's been affected yet because it's so early in the season. later on when they need more people but can't get them because the border is shut, it might get crazier.
or maybe people in this state will wake the fuck up and realize someone other than mexicans can pick strawberries
>r maybe people in this state will wake the fuck up and realize someone other than mexicans can pick strawberries
The USDA or Department of Labor needs to go into these poor urban neighborhoods and tell people to go pick food and maybe offer them a bus ticket too. Shit we have loads of high school students that aren't in class.
Look at this crap! I couldn't find milk the first week of the super market panic.
>lack of labor
They rely on slave labor, underpaying workers Question is who is subsidizing where these foreign workers stay and their travel? surely their travel, accommodation costs and low wage they get paid should add up to a good wage for a domestic labor hire.
Farmers also illegally expect these people to work 6 days a week and get away with it.
>collapse of market prices and their good are going to waste
Price fixing often done by government, is it not truly disgusting (that is why there is a so little evolution in farming).
b-but the people who arent smart and capable enough to feed themselves wont get to eat!!
>They rely on slave labor,
Yep.
The fag field out of my window is growing grass. Real nice, that'll surely be useful.
That puts nitrogen back in the soil or something I think.
Someone is subsidizing the travel (and maybe accommodation) of foreign workers.
They are being used as slaves if they are being underpaid.
Something I should've known living in Farmville my entire life
>Real nice, that'll surely be useful
Ya, grass is what animals like cows, goats, and chickens eat.
Correct basic crop rotation that used to be taught in schools below the ages of 16 even.
USA may be fucked in terms of industrial capacity due to outsourcing all manufacturing, but if there's one thing we're still solid on, it's agriculture. If shit really hits the fan (due to the economic fallout resulting from the lockdowns of course, the virus is a fucking nothingburger and everyone is in a state of irrational panic) other countries may have issues with food supply, but America will not .
Got to keep that price high, fuck food banks, homeless etc.
Sorry but to me only lazy people who own businesses do not innovate, anyone relying on slave labor from an overseas market was always doomed to fail, like a junkie hooked on drugs they keep telling themselves they need these people and don't look for another way out, nor do they care about the community when they are sending the money they make overseas when they pay these people.
I don't get how their is a surplus so soon after a shortage. Freeze dry it and compete with the Danish milk exports.
How could there be a shortage of labor? I would gladly work on any farm that needs help (under the table of course, so I can still get my UI bux).
This is the problem with handouts. Who is going to do this sweaty nasty labor when they're getting $1200 a month to sit on their ass? Use selective service to identify unemployed young healthy men and ship their asses to the farms
The usual greedy idiots saw demand and ramped up supply but everyone already bought, it was an artificial demand cause by panic but they don't care they just see the chance of $$$.
This data is not surprising considering the damage the fires did last year.
Not to mention Australia has years when it gets droughts, that can have a huge impact on agriculture.
This should be classified as treason. Milk production is subsidized not only by loans but also via price floors and guaranteed purchases by the USDA. We pay them to make milk, not throw it away and keep prices for Americans artifically high.
Area that do not produce enough food and are reliant upon imports will have food riots later this year. In parts of the Middle East and Africa some nations import more than 50% of their calories.
This is my grocery store. I've seen employees picking out molding strawberries from containers and resealing them. They'd rather do that then lower the price 50 cents or a buck
How the fuck do you increase production of milk short-term anyway? Were they not milking all the milk cows before? Did they magically poof more cows into existence at the drop of a hat?
>sweaty nasty labor
Yet you are fine with enforcing a foreign worker work those conditions? Is that not equivalent to slavery? paid maybe but slavery non the less.
If the conditions are so bad no one who is not desperate would do it then it is not right that it is allowed to continue, improve for all or go away like you should in any normal society.
These people are profiting off the suffering of others and obviously do not care.
>What is growing in the USA right now?
Coronavirus cases
You’ve basically described universities depending on chink money as well. Can’t wait to see how that system copes in the coming years
Stop sending food to poor countries, close borders and shot whoever want to come in from banana republic's, problem solved!
I think so. The US for now can outbid anyone for food in a shortage but the poor countries will get screwed hard.
Couldn't they at least dump it on a pig farm so its not totally wasted? Monoculture was a mistake
a bailout, dummy
Welcome to Superstore/Walmart/most green grocers in Canada.
>Lets discuss what is growing and where
It is still very early for a lot of planting for this years crops.
So I have to say not a lot growing atm, spring weather drives the ability to plant every year it is a crap shoot
Those are the farm owners. The actual employed operation is typically much younger. And if those owners die the estate will just move on to their kids and carry on with the operations. Farmers are loathe to give up land in the family
>teh rural redneck fag
The USDA does the same for other surplus crops like rice and wheat. They will pay a farmer to plow it under to keep prices stable. Its actually illegal to sell those crops ordered destroyed to keep prices high.
They want to treat mexicans like animals for 6 weeks in spring then 6 weeks in fall, forcing them to work 60 hours a week for minimum wage, then get rid of them so they don't have to worry about workmen's comp and the like. You could get white people to do this work, indeed this work used to be done by white people, but you have to offer a premium wage to get people to put aside their main job seasonably.
>Look at this crap!
Unfortunatly these guys milk in the 1000's of cows.
They milk around the clock on a huge ass carousel for cows. My cousin milked 140 cows and he had a milk truck coming for pick up every other day.
These guys probably have hourly pick up.
100 cows 5-10 gallons per milking non stop adds up fast.
The food is not being sent there, it's being destroyed to keep the price up.
Imagine if they sent the excess to poorer countries there would be public outrage and unfortunately a population boom in a country that could not stand on it's own.
While kids are being fed the crappiest excess stock from factory farms in the cafeteria...
USA (and Canada) will always be able to make enough wheat/corn/s/o/y to keep people from starving but high labor products, which could translate into meat and dairy, are a question mark
>collapse of market price
>we have too much cheap food
>therefore everyone will starve
how the fuck does this make sense
That minimum wage cannot be worth so so much over in Mexico is it?
Someone must be subsidizing their travel (and maybe accommodation).
Bonus though for the USMCA forcing car manufactures to give US minimum wage in Mexico, move the labor market over there.
Fuck big ag monoculture systems. A huge waste of resources and loss of biodiversity.
Let’s get families back to the land growing naturally through permaculture design backed up by true decentralized sovereign states.
Thew could also turn it into cheese but that would require them to be more than a one trick "make industrial quantities of milk" pony
mexico's minimum wage is $4.80 USD per DAY
they make nearly double that in an hour
so yes, it is that much more
I am 100% against foreign labor, especially in a pandemic
I think this will happen next. Corona virus detected in workers at the large meat processing facilities. Overly cautious government regulators will demand vast amount of meat destroyed. Delays restarting processing. Shortages of meat in stores.
We've moved from retards reading the title but not the article to retards reading the title but not even the subtitle.
You are low information and most assuredly low IQ. You suffer from the dunning-kruger effect. It is plain as day in your first paragraph. You are as knowledgable about the market as a dolphin.
Why not pay farmers to plant a nitrogen fixing crop so at least the soil is being built back up? BTW I am fascinated by this topic. Anybody have a book recommendation on how farms turned into welfare queens?
Give it to me straight Yas Forums, are the tendie fields still harvested or are we fucked?
YOU MORON YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFON YOU SMOOTH BRAIN IDIOT YOU ACTUAL FUCKING RETARD YOU....
I've heard that it had a lot to do with some Nixon era policy.
Every dollar feels like 10 or 15.
Does that thing not have a factory lightning rod
Guaranteeing a minimum price for something will create artificial surplus.
Guaranteeing a maximum price for something will create artificial shortages.
You pick option A. What happens when the gov says "Yeah sure, here's the money for the milk lol, we don't want it tho so just dump it"
oh my god this almost sounds like those poor farmers have to pay wages high enough for people to make it worth it!
oh my god this almost sounds like that those goods will cost more in the store because people need to have a decent wage to do labor
oh my god it's almost like capitalism!