It's cool that this is happening as the cost of inputs, trade disruptions, consumer inflation, and borrowing rates were already catastrophic. If money means anything a year from now I'm going to be able to buy some cheap farmland from the MAGA hogs this destroys.
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It's cool that this is happening as the cost of inputs, trade disruptions, consumer inflation, and borrowing rates were already catastrophic.
not to mention, ICE raids
They claimed to have stopped raiding agriculture and hospitality job sites due to economic disruption, which is why they shifted focus onto immigrants in cities
It also makes more sense for them politically to not disgruntle their supporters.
Those people are still getting raided outside of work
With permaculture practices you can cultivate (and inhabit) almost any kind of land.
There are water-secure regions that have decent land selling for about $9k per acre, sometimes a little less.
Porkies aren't interested in building or farming on slopes, or soils that are too clayey or sandy. We will lap them up and
my ikh pokhoronim. 
His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbours sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counselled one and all, and everyone said “Amen."
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Some growers are considering shifting acres from corn to soybeans, which require less nitrogen.
Just stop farming. Nobody is buying your soybeans and nobody benefits from cars running on ethanol. Not to sound like a liberal but I think we should strip away the subsidies and let the market sort it out.
Just stop farming.
The subsidies were put in place during the Depression/Dust Bowl and then just....never went away. People were literally starving to death in 1930s America because you'd spend $0.10 growing $0.07 per bushel. The government had to intervene to prevent the situation from getting worse. Fast forward nearly 100 years, farmers are still getting subsidies as though grocery stores and restaurants aren't throwing out industrial quantities of food every day.
Raise prices to a sustainable level. Give people food stamps.
I'm not worried about farms not operating at peak efficiency, I just think production shouldn't be entirely disconnected from demand.
But no food stamps are the one thing that they are trying to cut.
Nitrogen fertilizer prices climbed about 95 percent
Sorry but the toxic runoff will stop
