B of A: “.. the termination of #USAID will .. result in fewer crop purchases from US farmers. In 2024, USAID purchased $2 billion in U.S. grown corn, soybeans, wheat, vegetable oil, and peas from farmers, representing 1-2% of annual exports ..”
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Hey Big Balls have you heard of the multiplier effect and also this thing called income tax? You're not saving money. You're stunting economic activity.
Many of these farmers voted MAGA. They are enter the FAFO stage. Of course, this is what Trump wanted anyway, he wanted to destroy the small farmer so big agriculture can goggle up family farms. Send them out of business, buy the land for pennies on the dollar.
Between this, likely retaliatory tariffs, and the culling of their workforce through the deportation program, US farmers are going to go through some things.
That's the point. Bankrupt farmers, forcing them to sell to big agribusiness, and all of our food is now grown by monopolistic mega-corporations. It's why they are reneging on the federal contracts to reimburse farms for upgrading their infrastructure, too. Farmers spent the $, won't be reimbursed.
The tariffs are also going to hit farmers hard. Most potash for fertilizer comes from Canada. Soon to be 25% more cost to the US companies. This will be passed along to farmers.
Wake Up America !
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I don’t feel bad for the farmers. They voted for this. They’ll sell to the company JD Vance helped start that is out to buy failed farms so they’ll get something. I feel bad for all those that will die without the food, and for those who will suffer from the disease that will spread.
US farmers are wards of the state.
fyi.. A "ward of the state" is a child or farmer who is legally in the care of the state or a public agency. This can happen when a child is in foster care or when a farmer lacks the ability to care for themselves.
They’ll appropriate money and make the farmers whole; they always do. The GOP would rather pay farmers not to grow food than pay them to grow food for brown children who are starving
The point is to bankrupt small farmers & force them to sell their land to wealthy corporate farms OR corporations like JD Vance's AcreTrader -- where they then can turn around and re-let the land to these small farmers at 3x-4x times the rate (called tenant farming).
Farmers will not be happy, this is Trumps base! Will be interesting will they show up in Washington and direct their J6 angst from Mike Pence to DJT? 🍿🥤
It was a win all around Needy nations got food. US got good will. Farmers got a strong revenue stream. And all that extra production and scale helped keep domestic food prices low.
The ripple effect is starting to be noticed by those that voted for this. The party of "personnel responsiblity" is starting to realize the conseqences of their actions.
MAGAts are considering bailing out the farmers they screwed? I have an idea: pay farmers to grow food for school lunches that will be offered free in every school.
Has it occured to anyone that this issue with USAid is so important to Musk because it does good for POC in Africa? This is his personal payback for post apartide..
Been thinking about the woman who got dragged out in #idaho... White "supremacists" fighting to hand over the reigns of government power to the CEOs of multinational corporations (keep in mind that magnificent 7 CEOs are nearly all foreigners) whose primary responsibility are their investors. 🙄
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Who knew?
Canadians are switching buying patterns away from US produce and other farmed goods. This will also hit farmers.
Cuts to the weather service will mean poor forecasts that farmers rely on.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUchlnutTYA
fyi.. A "ward of the state" is a child or farmer who is legally in the care of the state or a public agency. This can happen when a child is in foster care or when a farmer lacks the ability to care for themselves.
Most of them are good people
Pointing out that they voted for this catastrophe will not help anything
Standing up & helping them is the most American thing we can do
Being united against MAGA will destroy it
So.. we'll pay them more to not grow food...for the hungry?
Efficency?
Another way to make ppl poor.
https://youtu.be/UgP-JPWvkiM?si=HNGCK2l0veoh786m
oh wait...fELON is going to consider that to be WASTE 🤮
Vote for dysentery, get diarrhea.
Yet….they vote red more often than not.
Some people never learn.
https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling-what-it-means-farmers-and-ag-research
And we'll screw ourselves real good
Step 2 buy the land for next to nothing
Step 3 corporate America grows our “food” pick by RFK’s wellness campers