If you change the costs even slightly, such as with taxes or regulations (like lockdowns) it causes profound effects. What used to make 10 cents per unit now makes -20 cents.
Farmers, who can't just give away their money, will be forced to choose the least desirable option, which is to leave their fields fallow. Some may risk it, hoping that prices will rise to compensate, but not enough will. And so when harvest time comes, there will be actual shortages.
That's not what the article is talking about though. The farmer says that he substituted one crop (corn) for another (soybeans), not that he's leaving it fallow. That's normal in a free market economy.
There will be meat, it just wont taste the same.
Think grass fed, or out west it may be sagebrush fed.
It will eat, but it dont taste like grain fed for damn sure.
Toughen up, you will live. I also wanted to edit this simply to say that most opportunity for business success is found when most people are not seeing it. If farmers are not planting because fettilizer costs are high, some will see it as an opportunity . Real money in agriculture is made when times are tough.
It will suck for a lot of folks for sure with higher prices at the store, but i sincerely doubt it will be famine conditions.
If anyone tries to starve America into submission they have forgotten what 2A stands for at their peril.
According to the farmer, there's a soybean shortage in the US. So by him switching to soybeans for the season, he's fortifying our food supply. Plus, soybeans are also used as livestock feed. I fail to see the problem here. If we were experiencing a corn shortage, the price would go up and it would be economical for the farmer to plant corns again. That's how the free market operates, based on supply and demand.
How would switching from one crop to another cause food shortages?
Idiots don't get it.
Margins have always been razor thin.
If you change the costs even slightly, such as with taxes or regulations (like lockdowns) it causes profound effects. What used to make 10 cents per unit now makes -20 cents.
Farmers, who can't just give away their money, will be forced to choose the least desirable option, which is to leave their fields fallow. Some may risk it, hoping that prices will rise to compensate, but not enough will. And so when harvest time comes, there will be actual shortages.
Mess with the economy, you will get disaster.
That's not what the article is talking about though. The farmer says that he substituted one crop (corn) for another (soybeans), not that he's leaving it fallow. That's normal in a free market economy.
Don't be dense. Corn is also used to feed livestock. No feed, no meat. Jesus. Some people's kids.
There will be meat, it just wont taste the same. Think grass fed, or out west it may be sagebrush fed. It will eat, but it dont taste like grain fed for damn sure. Toughen up, you will live. I also wanted to edit this simply to say that most opportunity for business success is found when most people are not seeing it. If farmers are not planting because fettilizer costs are high, some will see it as an opportunity . Real money in agriculture is made when times are tough. It will suck for a lot of folks for sure with higher prices at the store, but i sincerely doubt it will be famine conditions. If anyone tries to starve America into submission they have forgotten what 2A stands for at their peril.
According to the farmer, there's a soybean shortage in the US. So by him switching to soybeans for the season, he's fortifying our food supply. Plus, soybeans are also used as livestock feed. I fail to see the problem here. If we were experiencing a corn shortage, the price would go up and it would be economical for the farmer to plant corns again. That's how the free market operates, based on supply and demand.
That's IF you can get the soybean seeds. Many farmers just can't get them.