As a farmer, it’s deeply troubling that so many fellow members of the agriculture community think the USDA and Farm Bill are important and necessary to support American agriculture. The opposite is true, government misallocation of resources robs successful farmers in favor of less efficient ones.
Paying to not farm arable land artificially raises our food prices. If farmers can’t turn a profit without the government stealing other people’s money and giving it to them, then those farmers shouldn’t be in business. If wealthy landowners are being corporate welfare pigs and collecting checks to keep perfectly good land out of use, they should have all government funds cut off. The incentive system of the Farm Bill is opposite of what benefit both farmers and the public. Farmers became debt slaves, inefficient and commercialized. They commit suicide at high rates, probably a consequence of the immense fiat debt piles they are forced to take on. The public gets more expensive, lower quality food due to supply restriction. Just a few thoughts, TBC #agriculture #farming
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Shitty Communist ideas have infiltrated every corner of society. Yuri Bezmenov warned the west but 🤷♂️
Agreed sir. The weak men have given us the hard times
It's such a mess - and the subsidies for corn, wheat and soy not only make us sicker but also get Americans used to artificially cheap food such that buying from a small farm or at a farmers' market feels like some kind of weird luxury.
You hit the nail right on the head. Shopping from your local farmers markets would be much, much more affordable if we weren’t over taxed, over regulated, and spending $ subsidizing these monocrop factories of highly processed crap.
The system is completely backwards. To set up a small farm to produce quality food for your community, not only do you have to go deep into debt with the inflated land prices from fiat debasement, but you have to jump through so many hoops getting proper licenses and government permits. Yet at the same time, no subsidies exist for that small farmer while these 10,000 acre soybean plantations get government subsidies because of some antiquated Farm Bill created in the Depression era to supposedly protect domestic farmers prices (which it hasn’t at all).
Keep spreading the awareness though, we will win this battle eventually.
