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Trump sides with big agriculture monopolies

Posted on: October 22, 2017 at 10:38:29 CT
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This is consistent with something I have been noticing for some time. How farmers are getting squeezed by reduced competition in the industry.

https://www.iatp.org/blog/201710/trumps-usda-does-bidding-meatpackers-turns-back-farmers-ranchers

My 85 year old farmer uncle explained to me that you can't make much money growing corn, because seed corn costs $80 an acre. Then a friend of mine that works at a local John Deere implement dealer explained just how incredibly expensive farm equipment was. I had already heard how Tyson abuses chicken farmers. Forcing them to buy feed from Tyson, controlling the prices they get for the chickens, and making the farmers take all the risk when infections break out in their stock.

So farmers get squeezed on the front end by suppliers and get squeezed on the back end by concentrated markets, while feeling the effects of a high dollar.
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Trump sides with big agriculture monopolies - Knucklehead MU - 10/22 10:38:29
     Agriculture is far more than grain farming - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 17:11:33
          RE: Agriculture is far more than grain farming - redngray MU - 10/22 17:30:25
               I wouldn't disagree - nm - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 18:04:00
     the problem with agriculture is not - Ferg STL - 10/22 10:50:33
          End the health & safety regulations as well? - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 16:44:34
          Generally agree. Another dept we could abolish. - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 11:26:58
               Trump is a big fan of the failed ethanol program - Ferg STL - 10/22 11:29:23
                    One of our most useless ideas. And I make money from it, - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 11:36:59
                         "And I make money from it," - pickle MU - 10/22 12:21:56
                              Proceeds from selling beans and corn is now welfare? - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 14:07:23
                                   are prices higher than they would have been - SwampTiger MU - 10/22 14:14:03
                                        Corn or gasoline prices? - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 17:16:45
                                             Good analysis.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 18:19:17
                                        Very unlikely there is any connection. I am not - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 15:03:07
                              Something we can all agree on - Knucklehead MU - 10/22 13:15:07
                                   He has said he and his family receive money from gvmt - pickle MU - 10/22 13:26:38
                                        Except for the conservation reserve, those programs are gone - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 17:23:37
                                        Guess I'll violate my own rule here - redngray MU - 10/22 14:14:41
                                        hey GAT... is this true? (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 10/22 14:14:32
                                             If it is I'm not aware of it.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 15:04:01
                                                  you said so a few years ago (nm) - pickle MU - 10/22 23:35:40
                                                  The Ethanhol Program - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 16:56:38
                                                       I don't see any worthwhile savings or advantage to ethanol. - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 18:24:15
          Funny how all you big free market guys - Knucklehead MU - 10/22 11:23:52
               Odd, but you make "big free market guys" sound derisive - Mizzou Lou KC - 10/22 13:34:41
                    so do you (nm) - pickle MU - 10/22 23:37:18
               Government interference. - Evenflow MU - 10/22 11:57:44
                    I assume you are refering to patent laws - Knucklehead MU - 10/22 13:12:40
                    Nice bumper sticker slogan nm - redngray MU - 10/22 12:02:22
                    Thank you for your response - Knucklehead MU - 10/22 12:01:20
          Define "failed programs" - redngray MU - 10/22 11:15:37
               A government program (nm) - pickle MU - 10/22 12:23:53
               Subsidies havn't made food prices cheap in the US - Ferg STL - 10/22 11:33:04
                    RE: Subsidies havn't made food prices cheap in the US - redngray MU - 10/22 11:36:03
                         Taxation (nm) - pickle MU - 10/22 12:24:12
               A cogent point, but then most ag by far comes from - GA Tiger MU - 10/22 11:28:20
                    There are NO small farmers - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 10/22 17:27:23
                         RE: There are NO small farmers - redngray MU - 10/22 17:32:36
               I'm not sure you're really a free market guy. - Evenflow MU - 10/22 11:26:59
                    RE: I'm not sure you're really a free market guy. - redngray MU - 10/22 11:33:13
                         Wow (nm) - pickle MU - 10/22 12:27:21
                         huh? - Ferg STL - 10/22 11:48:31
                         LOL, confirmed. (nm) - Evenflow MU - 10/22 11:46:43
                              RE: LOL, confirmed. (nm) - redngray MU - 10/22 11:57:34
                                   Food is no different from an iPhone or Prius (nm) - pickle MU - 10/22 12:28:01
                                        Disagree - SatoriTiger JC - 10/22 14:02:00
                                   "How did the collective farms in the old USSR work out?" - Ferg STL - 10/22 12:05:43
                                        OK, now think a little bit.....nm - redngray MU - 10/22 14:17:00
                                   We may have to shop at a farmer's market. - Evenflow MU - 10/22 12:00:34
                                        LOL confirmed nm - redngray MU - 10/22 12:03:29
     RCW RCW RCW RCW RCW - JG A - 10/22 10:42:58
          πŸ‘½βœˆοΈπŸšΆπŸ»πŸŒ‹πŸ‘» - Emoji Man MSU - 10/22 11:16:21




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