Big factory farms operate worldwide, across seasons. They are masters at shifting agricultural outputs and subsidizing losses with government dollars from multiple governments. It's best to think of them as non-country specific NGOs, since that's how they're built. Monsanto is one of the better examples. They will just shift production to Brazil and subsidize American losses to maintain farmland value. Bc farmable land always has value in the long term. They can last bad grow cycles and seasons without profit in an area at this point.
Who can blame them? Farming successfully without worrying about a bad season has been mankind's goal even before government
existed.
Bad food quality is important, but a modern luxury.
It will hurt many farmers. I myself am a small very farmer, 350 acres. I have a day job, as I own an ag retail business thatvsells directly to farmers. Many of the average size farmers are 1,000-3,000 acres. We will all suffer again. I wouldn't vote forb democrat and many farmers are republican, but there are quite a few democrats that are farmers. Most are old school who don't know their party is evil. There are many large scale corporate farms around that have also made it hard for the smaller farmers as they pay high land rent. Since they farm so many acres they are willing to make a small amount an acre, where as an average size farmer can't afford it and loses ground to the big guys.
I can't wait for the return of our local farmer's markets. This Spring and Summer I will be buying all our fruits and vegetables from them. There are about four in the local area, and I'll be hitting them all.
This is an excellent point. Bonus farmers market food is usually fresher and less expensive. So win win. JS
This isn't dooming, this is what happened in 2018 and what China wants to happen again. Don't be ambushed by an obvious strategy.
I support local farmers but I do wonder if this hurts the big factory farms more?
Big factory farms operate worldwide, across seasons. They are masters at shifting agricultural outputs and subsidizing losses with government dollars from multiple governments. It's best to think of them as non-country specific NGOs, since that's how they're built. Monsanto is one of the better examples. They will just shift production to Brazil and subsidize American losses to maintain farmland value. Bc farmable land always has value in the long term. They can last bad grow cycles and seasons without profit in an area at this point.
Who can blame them? Farming successfully without worrying about a bad season has been mankind's goal even before government existed.
Bad food quality is important, but a modern luxury.
It will hurt many farmers. I myself am a small very farmer, 350 acres. I have a day job, as I own an ag retail business thatvsells directly to farmers. Many of the average size farmers are 1,000-3,000 acres. We will all suffer again. I wouldn't vote forb democrat and many farmers are republican, but there are quite a few democrats that are farmers. Most are old school who don't know their party is evil. There are many large scale corporate farms around that have also made it hard for the smaller farmers as they pay high land rent. Since they farm so many acres they are willing to make a small amount an acre, where as an average size farmer can't afford it and loses ground to the big guys.
I can't wait for the return of our local farmer's markets. This Spring and Summer I will be buying all our fruits and vegetables from them. There are about four in the local area, and I'll be hitting them all.
Happy to, but PLEASE ELIMINATE GLYPHOSATE!!!