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in the fields this cold January day. Per MSNBC, farmers are already having trouble harvesting crops and they are rotting in the fields. Migrants are afraid to show up for work. They say per economists we are about to see spike in grocery prices. Kinda curious what crops they speak of.
 
in the fields this cold January day. Per MSNBC, farmers are already having trouble harvesting crops and they are rotting in the fields. Migrants are afraid to show up for work. They say per economists we are about to see spike in grocery prices. Kinda curious what crops they speak of.
All of the crop insurance claims for the recent harvest in Georgia have already been filed, so the government farmer titty is gonna pump for another couple of months. The farmers are paid up.

May and June is when you will see the shit hit the fan. Deportation, tariffs (see “Results of Trump Soybean Tariff”) - the need for government subsidies for farmers will explode from the ridiculous to the absurd, and it will be yet another line in the sand he drew that exacerbated a problem rather than solving one.

The soybean tariff is the perfect study for the actual effects. Read up.
 
All of the crop insurance claims for the recent harvest in Georgia have already been filed, so the government farmer titty is gonna pump for another couple of months. The farmers are paid up.

May and June is when you will see the shit hit the fan. Deportation, tariffs (see “Results of Trump Soybean Tariff”) - the need for government subsidies for farmers will explode from the ridiculous to the absurd, and it will be yet another line in the sand he drew that exacerbated a problem rather than solving one.

The soybean tariff is the perfect study for the actual effects. Read up.
There will no deportation of immigrant workers! They all have green cards. And they have been here for years.
 
All of the crop insurance claims for the recent harvest in Georgia have already been filed, so the government farmer titty is gonna pump for another couple of months. The farmers are paid up.

May and June is when you will see the shit hit the fan. Deportation, tariffs (see “Results of Trump Soybean Tariff”) - the need for government subsidies for farmers will explode from the ridiculous to the absurd, and it will be yet another line in the sand he drew that exacerbated a problem rather than solving one.

The soybean tariff is the perfect study for the actual effects. Read up.
You are wrong here. Fuel and fertilizer costs have gone through the roof with Biden. It's a bad situation all because of Biden. Many farmers are in bad shape.
 
in the fields this cold January day. Per MSNBC, farmers are already having trouble harvesting crops and they are rotting in the fields. Migrants are afraid to show up for work. They say per economists we are about to see spike in grocery prices. Kinda curious what crops they speak of.
Oranges. Peak season for harvesting in California is Q1. There is already an OJ shortage due to a disease that hit Brazil and we have had a hard time getting certain products. Source - I'm in the restaurant business.

The US gets a majority of our fruit from Mexico and South America during our Winter and that shifts back to the US during our growing months. Tariffs are only going to make things more expensive and with ICE going around communities (have already been seen here in Louisville KY and schools are on alert as now Trump has said that they can go after minors and schools), it is scaring a lot of the cheap labor and labor who are doing things that us white guys don't want to do. These things are going to have very negative consequences for everyone.
 
in the fields this cold January day. Per MSNBC, farmers are already having trouble harvesting crops and they are rotting in the fields. Migrants are afraid to show up for work. They say per economists we are about to see spike in grocery prices. Kinda curious what crops they speak of.
Who watches MSNBC?
 
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Oranges. Peak season for harvesting in California is Q1. There is already an OJ shortage due to a disease that hit Brazil and we have had a hard time getting certain products. Source - I'm in the restaurant business.

The US gets a majority of our fruit from Mexico and South America during our Winter and that shifts back to the US during our growing months. Tariffs are only going to make things more expensive and with ICE going around communities (have already been seen here in Louisville KY and schools are on alert as now Trump has said that they can go after minors and schools), it is scaring a lot of the cheap labor and labor who are doing things that us white guys don't want to do. These things are going to have very negative consequences for everyone.

Trump said he would go after minors and schools? Do you have a link where he is saying this in context?

The crop picking is a red herring. We had plenty of equipment and people to pick crops 4 years ago. There are visa programs for people Tom come in a pick crops legally. Add in the advances of mechanization and we will be needing fewer crop pickers. When was the last time you saw someone picking cotton?

What Dems want is a permanent serf class. They want cheap labor to babysit their children and cut their grass. Sorry, we will all need to pay a little more to have these luxuries. Safety and security is more important these days.
 
Correct - there are, but incredibly expensive and not many of them vs what is needed. My father in law owns a landscaping company and is never able to get them. It’s thousands to even enter the lottery.
I know many in the landscape industry. Some years they get visas and sometimes they don’t. Either way, they make pretty good money. I also know people have built their business without and visas or foreign labor. They are also successful but they do cost a little more. That’s how the market works.
If you want to argue we need more work visas, that’s a reasonable conversation, but using it as an excuse to allow illegal aliens into the country is just dishonest gaslighting.
 
in the fields this cold January day. Per MSNBC, farmers are already having trouble harvesting crops and they are rotting in the fields. Migrants are afraid to show up for work. They say per economists we are about to see spike in grocery prices. Kinda curious what crops they speak of.
Link? I don’t think many crops ripen in the winter
 
Some of the pricing issue with cotton and other commodities is traders and the dreaded MIDDLE MAN are setting prices and getting their cut / margin regardless of supply / demand . I had a cotton farmer discuss this over holidays, a UGA degree educated one on Ga Cotton Board. He was very disappointed on state of farming and he was row cropping 5000 plus acres. Sad state of affairs regardless of tariffs or labor.
 
Will, Kidney, Pharma, Jbstone, beginning to think Tivoli, celtic, and a couple others. Thats about it.
Based on their current rating, there about 17 more. But you got most of them.

NBC can’t sell that albatross fast enough. Can you imagine if Musk were to buy that thing. Glorious head explosions everywhere.
 
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Some of the pricing issue with cotton and other commodities is traders and the dreaded MIDDLE MAN are setting prices and getting their cut / margin regardless of supply / demand . I had a cotton farmer discuss this over holidays, a UGA degree educated one on Ga Cotton Board. He was very disappointed on state of farming and he was row cropping 5000 plus acres. Sad state of affairs regardless of tariffs or labor.
Right now based on current costs to produce and commodity prices farmers will lose around $200/acre.
 
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Link? I don’t think many crops ripen in the winter
A lot of agribusiness operates year round. For example, I used to have a client family in Okeechobee, FL that operates a large-scale dairy farm that employs and houses Hispanic labor. Large scale plant nurseries operate in South Florida and Orlando. One farming family grows broccoli in New England in the summer and shifts to a farm south of Jacksonville in the winter. That’s just a few examples off the top of my head.
 
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A lot of agribusiness operates year round. For example, I used to have a client family in Okeechobee, FL that operates a large-scale dairy farm that employs and houses Hispanic labor. Large scale plant nurseries operate in South Florida and Orlando. One farming family grows broccoli in New England in the summer and shifts to a farm south of Jacksonville in the winter. That’s just a few examples off the top of my head.
Good point. Greenhouse crops.
 
Oranges. Peak season for harvesting in California is Q1. There is already an OJ shortage due to a disease that hit Brazil and we have had a hard time getting certain products. Source - I'm in the restaurant business.

The US gets a majority of our fruit from Mexico and South America during our Winter and that shifts back to the US during our growing months. Tariffs are only going to make things more expensive and with ICE going around communities (have already been seen here in Louisville KY and schools are on alert as now Trump has said that they can go after minors and schools), it is scaring a lot of the cheap labor and labor who are doing things that us white guys don't want to do. These things are going to have very negative consequences for everyone.
Now everything is the white guys fault all of a sudden!
 
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