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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago

Lmao, eat shit AmeriKKKa

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

bloomer Great, this will lead to a reorganization of the rural economy away from environmentally unsustainable, input-intensive production systems and more toward balanced methods of local production and consumption and a reduction in the sector's greenhouse gas output.

doomer We're all gonna starve because they're gonna burn the soybeans rather than sell them for a loss, aren't we?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Definitely the latter, and then Blackrock and Billy G will swoop in to buy up farmland from the insolvent farmers.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 points 4 hours ago

Nothing hits quite like being Lord of the Ashes.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 11 points 4 hours ago

Me watching all the old pastures and grasslands get turned into subdivisions and fast food chains. Guess this is just going to happen faster now.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 24 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

they voted for this.

don't feel sorry for the '''Farmers'''', there is no such thing as working class farmers in the US, only temporary failed plantation owners

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

it sure is tuff owning a bunch of land and then exploiting migrants to harvest your speculative cash crops

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 11 points 4 hours ago

Now you have too much land and no more affordable labor? Great incentive to lease your land out for the camps that hold your former employees.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

extremely obscure by this point but I can't exactly take that term seriously without immediately thinking of the name of a level, that for some reason rests in the back of my head, from an archeological artifact of a game, sprung from a primordial internet:

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 41 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Decent explanation of why farmers are surprised the leopard is eating their faces. TL;DW kulaks assumed they’d get a chunky subsidy like always, and they did not.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I remembered in Canada there was an Agriculture Study specialist who gave a conference to a bunch of farm owners about how to adapt your farm's business in the event of climate change. The conference didn't last because these farmers told that specialist that there is no such thing as Climate change.

btw, the specialist is not even there to sell some corpo product, he was just there to present some study he did.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Voting to decimate their own markets (The communists, you can’t make this shit up) by waging war against China

It sounds like a weird joke

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 33 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Been wondering how this would play out, farmers planted the same amount as usual even without buyers lined up assuming the guard rails would hold. Now they don't have anybody to harvest or sell to. Deffinitly gonna be some grapes of wrath ripe for the picking soon.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I talked to my farming buddy about this. He said it’s definitely a real thing especially for soybeans. But he’ll probably just end up storing more from his harvest this year and ride it out. I know every situation is different, but just thought I’d throw that out there.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But he’ll probably just end up storing more from his harvest this year and ride it out.

Then your buddy is better prepared than like 90% of farmers, who hsve overleveraged the hell out of their holdings and have debts they counted on selling this year's harvest to service. The (immediate) problem isn't so much that farmers have a glut of product to sell, it's that the farming sector, like almost every other productive sector in the global north is finsncialized to hell and back, getting strapped to the global financial system like a suicide vest that starves you to death instead of blowing you up.

Hell, even if you don't have large operational debt, the capacity for storage you need to ride out these kinds of things requires large capital investments: money most farmers don't have at hand, and get loans for. I'm sure it was a genius move to plug the food system to part of the economy that's been the cause the past 3 or 4 times there was a recession. No problems there.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Luckily leftists are ardent readers and are prepared for how this is going to go down.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

That would require talking to country folk and ewwww.

-most leftists I know

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wait I don't think I understand why Fanon is relevant

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In Wretched of the Earth he talks about the need for revolutionaries to connect with the people outside of the cities.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Damn I forgot about that bit. Gotta re-read it soon. Thank you.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago
[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 33 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Time for Bill Gates to buy up more farmland

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Being proletarianized is the one thing that might eventually make the farmers tolerable

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Better be Bill Gates Foundation than Monsanto, Americans like norms and choosing the lesser of the 2 evils afterall

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 10 points 5 hours ago

I heard the Americans like to have the choice of the colour of the whip that will lash them

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] context@hexbear.net 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

gates mostly wants to monopolize food production, not real estate

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Ahh I thought he was squatting on farmland until it became "unviable" (food too expensive) and then scorch earth sell them to developers to make a permanent renter class, deny generational weath via Gates-keeping homeownership, and then permanently deleting farmland driving food prices even higher while sucking every disposble penny from the working class. twisted

All the farmlands around here are becoming housing developments.

[–] context@hexbear.net 18 points 7 hours ago

quite the opposite. he's been focused on prime arable land, and especially what will remain arable based on climate predictions.

[–] RindarSomething@hexbear.net 34 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's crazy when what we said would happen happens

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 hours ago

Begun, the finding out has.

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 25 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Drought is driving a shitload of my ranching neighbors out of business, people are selling properties that have been worked by their families for over a century

There's already a profound ongoing reorganization of the social order in rural america and all this will just accelerate it

[–] Runaway@lemmy.zip 14 points 8 hours ago

Well they can fuck off