@acnewsitics It absolutely did, and that business with China is never coming back. China invested huge sums in South America after trumps first trade war. The soybean and sorghum markets tanked under trump and have never recovered, and I don’t think they ever will.
@Dusty42402999 I live “downstream” about 25 miles from
Dodge and yeah, it sucks! We used to go destroy our pickups driving down the riverbed when we were kids! Hasn’t been any water here in it since I was a little kid.
@BrettSchroede17 It happens here all the time, it splits when it gets to them, then comes back together 20 miles east of here. Maybe it’s coincidence but I probably have 50 screenshots of it happening.
@mbacowboy It’s hard to not notice the number of storms that come through and either weaken or split completely when they get to the one right east of us. If they’re correlated or not I don’t know, but I’ve watched storm after storm miss us. Then get 15 20 miles east and join back up.
@TractorNinja I saw a lease where the guy paid full cash rent, I think $45/ac in western ks, then the landlord got 1/3 of fsa payments, and if the field grossed over $100/ac taking the yield x $’s/bu on a certain day, he got a check for 1/3 of the GROSS amount over $100/ac and paid $0
@brandibuzzard@silofarm Inputs delivered directly to their farm. This in turn hurts more local businesses, as they made a living selling these products, now the farmer has cut out the middle man. I’m not saying any of this is wrong, but it certainly is a consequence of larger more efficient farms.
@brandibuzzard@silofarm So that right there takes away 9 jobs for simple math. What are those guys to do? Move to the city and get jobs there. As more of this happens the schools get smaller and will consolidate more, the local businesses suffer because a large farm can buy in enough quantity to get
@brandibuzzard@silofarm I’m a small farmer and I’m not knocking big farmers, as I’m trying to grow into a larger farmer. However, as farms get larger they get more efficient. Where it used to take 10 people to work 1000 acres now that can be done by one guy in a spray rig in a day.
I have farmed for the majority of my life and now been employed at a Co-Op full time for a full yr I can confidently say I underestimated how hard they worked and how good of job they did and see how poorly farmers treat employees sometimes