OT: For the farmers and Ag fellers and gals hereabouts...
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She talks about hand outs. We are probably about to get another handout at some point this year and she’s right that we would rather make our money on getting something for our crop on the market but with everything so screwed up over tariffs that’s not really going to happen.
There’s a bunch of people who got out this year and there’s a whole lot more hanging by a thread right now. Going to be one hell of a ride over the next 9 months.
There’s a bunch of people who got out this year and there’s a whole lot more hanging by a thread right now. Going to be one hell of a ride over the next 9 months.
I know it must be brutal. My hope is there is some good that comes from it.
It's pretty ridiculous what many other countries do to make our producers uncompetitive in their markets.
I think there’s some things happening domestically that could help as far as soybeans go but that’s still a couple of years away from really making a difference. The biggest issue with the trade wars is losing market share to Brazil. China is absolutely pouring money into Brazil to improve their infrastructure to get the beans and corn out to sea quicker. Their major growing regions (Matto Grasso) are in the interior and that has always hindered their ability to really crank out the exports quickly.
BRICS doesnt help us either.....China is the dirty, rotten ***** in this whole equation.
I really feel bad for the guys that went out around Greenwood due to the Express Grain **** show. Most of them tried to hang on as long as they could.
When I was young my stepdad farmed about 500 acres of soil beans every year. He made money. He was a fireman and that was a side job. We also had 10 sows and one boar hog. We would get about 100 feeder pigs every year then sell them. We had 30 head of cows. I remember him always saying a cow is money in the bank. Car breaks down sell a cow. We also planted 80 acres of field corn. Not to sell but for the cows. We also put a bunch of it in our food storage. We also had a hen house that we got our eggs from. I grew up on well water, home grown eggs, we killed one pig and one cow every year for our meat. We also planted a five-acre garden. Once we got what we needed my mom opened it up to the public to come a pick what they wanted. We had a apple tree, several peach trees, a pear tree and grapes, blue berries vines. We also had a small wood mill. We cut wood for Thomas Town Chairs and made skits to sell to warehouse for factories in Canton. Those days are gone. They worked my *** off and hated it, but I would not take anything for the memories today. A friend of mine is a farmer in Madison County, and I can't remember the acres farmed in Madison, he told me the lasts time I saw him it was way down from when we were in high school. It was said in this thread they don't want hand out, but I hope they take it. No one wakes up and decides to become a farmer. It is a trade you grow up learning. It is passed down from family to family.
Oh make no mistake if they give us some handout money it’s getting taken…..and it’s all going straight to the banks to pay on debt because there’s a pile of it. We just would prefer to make our money by actually selling our crops for a decent price.
I understand and would feel the same way and I have no problems with Government helping farmers. We are not making any new ones. Need to keep you guys in business.
Hopefully they get the Farm Bill done soon enough....$8 break even price on beans is laughable....be thankful we have Cindy Hyde Smith in Washington.....she is doing a phenomenal job....just got to get it through sooner rather than later
From what I’m hearing there’s about a zero percent chance a farm bill gets done this year. Truly ridiculous