Correction. US agriculture needs diversification and for the government to get their hands off our throats. It’s government subsidies that have killed small to moderate sized diversified farming operations that were common place before the farming crisis in the 80s. The only reason we see fewer and fewer farms swallowing up more and more land to grow corn and soybeans which is essentially mono cropping, is because subsidies made it “profitable”.
Get the government completely out of food production then farmers would prosper then. too much government manipulation in USDA reporting….. I doubt the consumer would like it though, because the price of food would definitely be higher. The government is never gonna let go of control of the food supply, though control the food control the people.
Few people understand subsidies. Many people believe farmers are paid to grow no crop. 30 years ago there was set aside acres meant to curtail overproduction so prices would rise to profitable levels. Yes, farmers were paid to set aside, leave land idle. None of us "like" subsidies but without them and crop insurance farming would be in constant boom and bust cycles making for wide swings in food prices and no doubt hoarding as we went thru during covid.
@@tapitXq9 I think we are wasting our valuable land away on silly things like ethanol and biofuels. Why did all the cow calf guys need bailed out last year? Cattle market was high. They could sell cows and be fine or afford to buy some hay because cattle market was up. Land bringing $15k in Illinois last week is absurd. Things are messed up. Corn and soybeans aren’t food. We’ve lost our way folks👎
@@mbailey12341 I have no answer on cattle bailout since i'm not familiar with it. I will add that after 9/11 when George W was in office there seemed to be a turning point of numerous new farm programs for all sorts of things besides grains. From bees to 4 legged livestock. Still though something like 80% of USDA monies spent is on nutrition programs such as food stamps under various names.
@@tapitXq9as a farmer myself we need to get off of relying on government and become more resilient and diversify. In many ways government has caused most of the issues we face today, however we need to take responsibility for allowing it to happen. You mentioned money to keep fields idle to raise corn prices and that’s true, but if farmers are in agreement with that program than they don’t believe in capitalism and free markets because that is a manipulated market. We grow so much corn and soybeans in this country and than expect the government to make mandates. And we also cube up with ways just to get rid of it, like corn syrup. Grow more food and less commodities.
Locals keep begging me to lease my land,I always tell them sure, you can lease it for free.2 conditions NO corn and NO soy beans, but if you want to plant crops people actually need you're welcome to. You know, potatoes, onions, carrots, etc
Absolutely a waste of money, why subsidize crops that'll be turned into ethanol which is terrible for gas engines anyway. There is no such thing as a fammily farm anymore, they're almmost all corporate. The Ohio Farm Bureau and Farm Bill are both drains on the nation's economy.
Crop insurance just lets farmers bid all the profits into land costs. End the subsidies, and farmers would be forced to be more conservative in their land bids. And it would make farmland much less appealing to non-farmers. It would make it a lot easier for young people to get into farming.
There's a reason efficient agribusiness does well. If this guy can't run a crop at a profit, I don't want taxpayers bailing him out through massive subsidies.
Farm subsidies in general need a huge overhaul. Subsidies create a false bottom for agriculture and that’s not good for any economy. Let farmers compete globally and let global competition set market prices. Tax payers need to wake up to farm subsidies and all subsidies. Keep crop insurance for sure.
Crop insurance is the problem ,thats the worst subsidy.Before that there was cattle and hay and other crops where its not profitable to growcorn and beans.China controls Brazil and other countries if they dont buy our crop we shouldnt buy the products
I live in rhe Licking/Perry county area and noticed this past Sunday how "burned/dry" that the corn stalks in the fields are!!!😮😮 Some spots look like there dead! 😢😮😢
There’s been a war on farming for quite some time you’re seeing it with cattle chickens pork how many meat processing plants have mysteriously burned up how many millions of chickens has been called because of the so-called bird flew now it went to the cattle. Oh by the way now, It went to humans. I call BS on that.
I work in manufacturing. What happens if my company has a bad year? Farming is a business and if you can't make a living doing it then do something else. Who rescues my company if they fail, um no body that's who. How much food are farmers in my area actually producing, probably not much. It's corn for ethanol. Might be different if they actually grew food crops.
I agree with you. And just so people don’t get butt hurt I grew up on a farm and my family still farms but even they agree it’s becoming a welfare business.
Years ago (80's)I was at a local farm expo in a "class" where people from "the Andersons" let us know that as far as crop production Michigan could fall off the map and it wouldn't be noticed so, some win,some lose, that's life, well,the 80's devastated my family and our farm and left us behind. Sorry for Your Loss.....ya got "bootstraps" use your like We used ours.
A good society takes care of its citizens who are struggling. Subsidies for large corporations, and big business are really the problem because those companies need to be allowed to feel the consequences of their decisions instead of getting too big to fail, and then being bailed out by taxpayers.
yup we need to stop sending money to one of the richest countries in the world Israel they do nothing for us at all it take take take or steal steal steal whichever works.
@@GhostRider-dp2tc not all farmers get subsidies. Some do not take it. Subsidies do not come with a cost. If you receive subsidies then you have to provide information to them. This information is how the government controls food prices. Theres over 65 million people on welfare alone. The last thing government wants is higher prices on food. They could care less about high inflation until it went into the food. Then they started do something. Farmers are very stupid people. They sell there soul to government in order to get a welfare check of there own. But they had to produce tons of food to get it.
@@mikeyd5969 people need to eat Know anyone that doesn't Grocery stores makes food When everyone has a garden and or animals then we won't need subsidies
The WHITE HOUSE is blocking any kind of a farm bill? What the F are you all smoking in red state country? The Republican's in the house & senate will not "give a win" on anything to Biden. Not ever, for anything. Trump told the Republicans to not vote for aid to Ukraine and they all did as ordered. You vote for a BLOCK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT on all issues and that's what you get. Good Luck.
99.9% of farmers will vote for Trump. The Communist "D" candidate can't even spell the word "farm"and you'd dread her tax tax tax and spend ways anyway!!
Get a clue people! Disastrous crops emphasizes the need for proper irrigation! But nooooo! Let's just keep throwing money at a lost cause without correcting WHAT CAUSES CROPS TO FAIL!!!!!!!!! NO EXCUSES!!!!!
Well they have had pumper crops for about 20 years may be they should of bank their money in stead of two vac a year in new pickups i am not a farmer are they going to bell me out
We may taje you farmers for granted!? But maybe its because we get tired of hearing so many day " we don't make any money, we're poor to"!!😮😢 Then when some local farmers sell the veggies, it's as high or higher than the local store is selling it for!!😮😢
Southern Darke County has had nearly oerfect rains. Or grass stayec green all summer and my soybeans look as tall and full as i have ever seen them . Maybe break seventy bu per acre?
I can only raise corn and soybeans, because it is what the government pays me to produce. Subsidies do make it more expensive for us to farm, but congress isn't going to turn that around.
Rhetoric. Sorry, corn is a food additive of dubious nutritional value, not vegetables or fruit. I get it, it’s an important commodity but, it’s not food. Food for protein-yes but beef prices are still sky high. Climate smart farming, and better soil health is our arsenal against droughts, and inflated input costs.
And why is the Farm bill not signed? Republicans in Congress..Who turns a blind eye to this farmers...Guess who depends on government money to survive? Farmers....
Subsidies have led to cheap toxic food and should be done away with. Free market.
Stop with the ethanol. Stop with the high fructose corn syrup. Stop with the GMO corn. Grow some real food for a change!
Correction. US agriculture needs diversification and for the government to get their hands off our throats. It’s government subsidies that have killed small to moderate sized diversified farming operations that were common place before the farming crisis in the 80s. The only reason we see fewer and fewer farms swallowing up more and more land to grow corn and soybeans which is essentially mono cropping, is because subsidies made it “profitable”.
As a taxpayer, I’m sick of the subsidies. Ethanol isn’t the answer either.
Get the government completely out of food production then farmers would prosper then. too much government manipulation in USDA reporting….. I doubt the consumer would like it though, because the price of food would definitely be higher. The government is never gonna let go of control of the food supply, though control the food control the people.
Few people understand subsidies. Many people believe farmers are paid to grow no crop. 30 years ago there was set aside acres meant to curtail overproduction so prices would rise to profitable levels. Yes, farmers were paid to set aside, leave land idle. None of us "like" subsidies but without them and crop insurance farming would be in constant boom and bust cycles making for wide swings in food prices and no doubt hoarding as we went thru during covid.
@@tapitXq9 I think we are wasting our valuable land away on silly things like ethanol and biofuels. Why did all the cow calf guys need bailed out last year? Cattle market was high. They could sell cows and be fine or afford to buy some hay because cattle market was up. Land bringing $15k in Illinois last week is absurd. Things are messed up. Corn and soybeans aren’t food. We’ve lost our way folks👎
@@mbailey12341 I have no answer on cattle bailout since i'm not familiar with it. I will add that after 9/11 when George W was in office there seemed to be a turning point of numerous new farm programs for all sorts of things besides grains. From bees to 4 legged livestock. Still though something like 80% of USDA monies spent is on nutrition programs such as food stamps under various names.
@@tapitXq9as a farmer myself we need to get off of relying on government and become more resilient and diversify. In many ways government has caused most of the issues we face today, however we need to take responsibility for allowing it to happen. You mentioned money to keep fields idle to raise corn prices and that’s true, but if farmers are in agreement with that program than they don’t believe in capitalism and free markets because that is a manipulated market. We grow so much corn and soybeans in this country and than expect the government to make mandates. And we also cube up with ways just to get rid of it, like corn syrup. Grow more food and less commodities.
Locals keep begging me to lease my land,I always tell them sure, you can lease it for free.2 conditions NO corn and NO soy beans, but if you want to plant crops people actually need you're welcome to. You know, potatoes, onions, carrots, etc
Nice.
Absolutely a waste of money, why subsidize crops that'll be turned into ethanol which is terrible for gas engines anyway. There is no such thing as a fammily farm anymore, they're almmost all corporate. The Ohio Farm Bureau and Farm Bill are both drains on the nation's economy.
I don't know about your area but farmers in my neck of the woods collect over a million dollars in subsidies every single year!
Crop insurance just lets farmers bid all the profits into land costs. End the subsidies, and farmers would be forced to be more conservative in their land bids. And it would make farmland much less appealing to non-farmers.
It would make it a lot easier for young people to get into farming.
There's a reason efficient agribusiness does well. If this guy can't run a crop at a profit, I don't want taxpayers bailing him out through massive subsidies.
Farm subsidies in general need a huge overhaul. Subsidies create a false bottom for agriculture and that’s not good for any economy. Let farmers compete globally and let global competition set market prices. Tax payers need to wake up to farm subsidies and all subsidies.
Keep crop insurance for sure.
Crop insurance is the problem ,thats the worst subsidy.Before that there was cattle and hay and other crops where its not profitable to growcorn and beans.China controls Brazil and other countries if they dont buy our crop we shouldnt buy the products
I live in rhe Licking/Perry county area and noticed this past Sunday how "burned/dry" that the corn stalks in the fields are!!!😮😮 Some spots look like there dead! 😢😮😢
Bc your in a drought. Ohio just declared 22 counties disaster due to drought.
There’s been a war on farming for quite some time you’re seeing it with cattle chickens pork how many meat processing plants have mysteriously burned up how many millions of chickens has been called because of the so-called bird flew now it went to the cattle. Oh by the way now, It went to humans. I call BS on that.
I work in manufacturing. What happens if my company has a bad year? Farming is a business and if you can't make a living doing it then do something else. Who rescues my company if they fail, um no body that's who. How much food are farmers in my area actually producing, probably not much. It's corn for ethanol. Might be different if they actually grew food crops.
I agree with you. And just so people don’t get butt hurt I grew up on a farm and my family still farms but even they agree it’s becoming a welfare business.
Kamala and Joe said you can learn to code……just like the oil industry folks…..
Years ago (80's)I was at a local farm expo in a "class" where people from "the Andersons" let us know that as far as crop production Michigan could fall off the map and it wouldn't be noticed so, some win,some lose, that's life, well,the 80's devastated my family and our farm and left us behind.
Sorry for Your Loss.....ya got "bootstraps" use your like We used ours.
High frutose is putting the populace in early graves.
Welfare for all. Punish the productive and reward the unproductive.
Thank a farmer, they would loose it all if not for subsadies.......bet it costs more than welfare...
A good society takes care of its citizens who are struggling. Subsidies for large corporations, and big business are really the problem because those companies need to be allowed to feel the consequences of their decisions instead of getting too big to fail, and then being bailed out by taxpayers.
yup we need to stop sending money to one of the richest countries in the world Israel they do nothing for us at all it take take take or steal steal steal whichever works.
@@GhostRider-dp2tc not all farmers get subsidies. Some do not take it. Subsidies do not come with a cost. If you receive subsidies then you have to provide information to them. This information is how the government controls food prices. Theres over 65 million people on welfare alone. The last thing government wants is higher prices on food. They could care less about high inflation until it went into the food. Then they started do something. Farmers are very stupid people. They sell there soul to government in order to get a welfare check of there own. But they had to produce tons of food to get it.
I farm in Adams county and we're not much better and if you think this white house is going to do anything then you better wake up
Hopefully they don’t..when I have a bad year no tax dollars come my way .
@@mikeyd5969 people need to eat
Know anyone that doesn't
Grocery stores makes food
When everyone has a garden and or animals then we won't need subsidies
Trump never did anything for it either
The WHITE HOUSE is blocking any kind of a farm bill? What the F are you all smoking in red state country? The Republican's in the house & senate will not "give a win" on anything to Biden. Not ever, for anything. Trump told the Republicans to not vote for aid to Ukraine and they all did as ordered. You vote for a BLOCK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT on all issues and that's what you get. Good Luck.
99.9% of farmers will vote for Trump. The Communist "D" candidate can't even spell the word "farm"and you'd dread her tax tax tax and spend ways anyway!!
Get a clue people! Disastrous crops emphasizes the need for proper irrigation! But nooooo! Let's just keep throwing money at a lost cause without correcting WHAT CAUSES CROPS TO FAIL!!!!!!!!! NO EXCUSES!!!!!
Well they have had pumper crops for about 20 years may be they should of bank their money in stead of two vac a year in new pickups i am not a farmer are they going to bell me out
We may taje you farmers for granted!? But maybe its because we get tired of hearing so many day " we don't make any money, we're poor to"!!😮😢 Then when some local farmers sell the veggies, it's as high or higher than the local store is selling it for!!😮😢
Life imitating art. This is the Wickerman in real life. Scary af!
I say no to the government Farm subsidies. You take your chances just like I do with my acre and a half Garden either make it are you don't
Southern Darke County has had nearly oerfect rains. Or grass stayec green all summer and my soybeans look as tall and full as i have ever seen them . Maybe break seventy bu per acre?
industrial hemp has them really scrambling
Your getting a farm bill, Harris is going to tax the fck out of farmers. Enjoy your vote
It would be about time framer's paid up instead of being the ultimate welfare sluts.
Get rid of crop insurance it guarantees cheap prices
I can only raise corn and soybeans, because it is what the government pays me to produce. Subsidies do make it more expensive for us to farm, but congress isn't going to turn that around.
Stop insdustrial single crop farming and switch to permaculture.
No more Roundup.
No one eats soy beans,if the soy bean crop disappeared off the face of the earth forever tomorrow, no one would notice
Pa too
In fat years, he should SAVE to handle the lean years, NOT expect more subsidies.
it's advice as old as the Bible.
Somehow the free market works except when there are farmers in Republic districts
Crap.
Rhetoric. Sorry, corn is a food additive of dubious nutritional value, not vegetables or fruit. I get it, it’s an important commodity but, it’s not food. Food for protein-yes but beef prices are still sky high. Climate smart farming, and better soil health is our arsenal against droughts, and inflated input costs.
Climate smart farming means u believe in climate change scam,all bullshit,freedom not government
And why is the Farm bill not signed? Republicans in Congress..Who turns a blind eye to this farmers...Guess who depends on government money to survive? Farmers....
Trump
Trump is not a saviour, jesus or a profitable business man....Enjoy taking the Loss this November
Biden's fault. Trump would have been blessed by God with rain for these farmers! As Trump is so HOLY!
Trumps rain would have washed the farms into the Ohio River.