Under Contract Farmers and the Fine Print
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- RAFI produced this film to illustrate the challenges contract farmers face. For more information about RAFI and to learn about our services for small- to mid-scale farmers in the Southeast U.S. and U.S. Caribbean, visit RAFIUSA.ORG.
For the first time in a full-length documentary, contract farmers tell their stories and industry experts reveal how the corporate production model pits farmer against farmer. Under Contract: Farmers and the Fine Print takes viewers across the American South and to Southern India to understand what’s happening to farmers living under contract and what we can do to change our food system for the better.
The story of the contract farmer is the story of what’s changing in rural America. Power in agriculture is changing hands, but few people know what’s happening to the farmers producing our food. Under Contract tells this story through the lens of global poultry farming. Around the world and all across agriculture, contract farming is taking hold. But farmers who sign contracts often face unfair challenges and hidden risks under the terms that are offered by the giant “integrator” meatpacking corporations that control the industry. Under Contract provides a timely glimpse into the little-understood fine print of modern agriculture.
The life of a Farmer is no different any where in the whole wide world, I see this in India and am seeing it in the US. As son of a farmer am proud of the hardworking farmers and am sad to see farmers being cheated.
I've seen the reports of suicides of rural farmers in India. Theres elevated rates of suicide in US, especially after a farmer finds that US corporations contaminated their soil with industrial pollutants and rendered the farm worthless.
We should all just be growing our own food
Easier said than done. I have 119 acres of land and I am a 61 year old women who just can't do the work due to accident. I grow timber, huckleberry, mushroom, all natural and I still can't keep the bears from tearing down my fruit trees etc.
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We are giing to have to do something to change these big corporations harming so many families.
Video is very important to share in our farmer community. Please translate to spanish
I would due - the translation - for free.
Former " Registered " Hi. Court consortium registered interpreter .
God Bless the American farmer & hopefully mr trump can help these farmers change these rules & what are these big corps thinking cause it's not like just anybody can do what these farmers are set up to do Tyson change your ways or the consumer will hit u we're it will hurt when people stop buying ur product ? Treat them fair let them make a good living if wont for them wouldn't be no Tyson think about it !!!
You should be able to select spanish in the captions. That's one great achievement of A I is that virtually any dialogue can be translated into any language
@@BPHwweez436
Donald no longer cares about reelection.
He got his get-out-of-jail card.
Now he panders to the Billionaires of the world and those who wish to become Billionaires.
Donald already broke his lower grocery prices promise.
This means he won't do anything about lowering the price of eggs, or the poultry industry.
Poultry, pork, beef, it's all gamed already against the single farmer.
The guy wife with the black hair,she's a real one..About made me cry..She's a keeper..
I worked at a Tyson processing plant in White Hall, Arkansas and OMG how that place managed to run was beyond me...the pipes in debone stayed clogged and they would kill more chickens than they could debone and process. Whole chickens would be ran through evis (Gutted) and through the chiller and ran into big tubs and placed into refrigeratorated trailers for days until they had to run them...let me tell you folks... working at that place was a total nightmare... I've worked at a processing plant before and it was 1000X's better than that Tyson plant. Thank God I found another job, because I just couldn't deal with what they were selling to people to eat.
WE THE PEOPLE need to elect officials that WILL care about their constituents. That will push and pass bills restricting corporate monopolies and professional lobbying. That's the only way to stop this.
Yes and if they are not going to do what we want....they will not get our vote
You are right on
Real ethical justice , NO legalities .
The elected works for big corporations and the country is run by the unelected. You are on your own.
Welp trump just ensured they won’t by getting rid of Lina Kahn who was actually FINALLY doing just that
Naxalite is the future of India. Support country Naxalite and its government. Naxalite is always with you to alleviate poverty and ensure equal human rights.
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15:30 Wow, they showed the farmers the cash flow statement but conveniently left out operating expenses and liabilities. They flaunted the revenue but skipped over profit after operating costs-just shameless. It’s honestly so sad. I’m so grateful I support local small farms and don’t contribute to these massive, exploitative corporations. I can’t wait for the day their greed finally catches up with them.
Deberían unirse todos los farm contra estas empresas..El gobierno siempre a favor de estos monopolios
Nobody holds a gun to their head to sign that contract. They can start their own slaughter house and do from the start to finish farming . I got three different farmers I get meat and vegetables from. One for pork another for beef and the row crop farm. This is up to the farmers to setup and manage themselves.
Yes, it is up to the farmers. But more important it is up to us their customers, are we willing to pay the higher price. Yes, I am.
I feel very sorry for the farmers shown in this video and for all farmers going thru the same struggles. I'm a 20 year already American who is an emigrant and lives a very good life and came with little to nothing to this country. I need to share a short story... My landscaper is an emigrant from Vietnam, who came to this country with literally nothing... Today I can afford a landscaper, own a home in 98008, travel the world in style. My landscaper owns a 1m+ home close to the Seattle/Tacoma airport, worth 1m+ and travels every year for a month to his home country to visit family and friends. While I was (retired recently before 60) in high tech, my landscaper was not and his entire business investment is a very solid, but used truck, a few mowers, blowers and trimmers and a huge desire to live the American dream. In this video people speak about "losing their home", but as far as I can tell those homes are worth little to nothing and not worth keeping. I would never ever put my women thru tears as seen in this video... My advice is: Leave this shitty life behind and start over in a place where your skills are in demand and be willing to add to your current skills; this is what people of this planet do, when they don't brake even.
I wish all of them only the best!
Farmers need to unite under one umbrella like a Co-Op and demand to be payed in shares/cash instead of cash alone.That way they will have voteing rights in the company. They will own the company instead of the company owning them.Every farmer should own shares, and when votes are casted, it will be proportional to the shares owned.Or they can simply band together and create a new company under a CO-OP where the farmers are the owners, to compete with tyson, perdue etc.The farmers are the labour they will win.
I agree with this after watching these deplorable testimonials from good folks being pounded by these companies who obviously don't care about the farmer. So, I propose they do it all. If they cant pay more than 5cents a pound they maybe they need to handle it all. Farmers need to unit and stand down collectively. What's Tysons gonna possibly do when 1200+ farmers don't accept any more chicks by us? I'll tell you. They'll buckle and it's time for unions to move in and take these contracts more beneficial for all parties. Americans need to get some sense and stop trying to get rich easy and stop ignorantly signing these bullvorn contracts with greedy corporations. If they started me at 21k a batch and dropped it to 12k I wouldn't have accepted anymore chicks until they straightened there act up. Sounds like Tysons needs to be run out of town and a new fresh business come up in the ranks and give back to the farmers. It's time to rise up before corporations take our lands over! The lands that belong to the people.
Right and go down as a group...
Its the american way, if you cant be competitive, then get out the way
Stop the talking! Ducking do it
Maybe China can own 25% and buy out the whole thing with the understanding that they have an additional branch of their supply chain in time of need. Buy all parts of production. Rewrite their contracts so the total cost of the industry can be shared among several years of production. No more hungry Chinese and happy farmers..
WOW THIS MAKES ME REALLY ANGRY 😡……… THESE POOR PEOPLE
I recall corporate farming in beef and dairy
Is a contract illegal or advised.
Try the Rico act for loansharking chickens
Nothing is wrong with making a living until these companies want more. Good business or bad. The investment isn't worth the risk. You can earn a good living by avoiding them.
This is sad to watch…such an overwhelming sense of helplessness for people who expect honest pay for honest work!
Why couldn't farmers set a better prices for the chickens they raise, a price that's more reflective of their input cost?
My Heart Hurts For The American Farmer..
right on !
What happens to these farmers is wrong! Shame on the chicken industry for what they do to farmers. We need to care more as a society for the humane way to raise our food and support all farmers!
Start by not buying cheap meat!
They need you more than you need them. Who is going to grow their chickens, if this practise keeps going.
They need to just start a farmers union and get out of the independent contractors business
Started eating more chicken because it’s cheaper. I started eating more chicken because of the introduction of Latin food
In India contract chicken farming can only be worse for the farmer. The poor will be screwed even more. The Indian people need to be wary of U.S. companies
I need work
I am missing your point.
Gotta fight ! Fight! Fight!!!
All you have done is repeat over and over didnt show . Even your pictures you repeated and some pictures didnt match up with what you are saying...
This is so sad and shouldn't be allowed at all.
There has Gotta Be A Better Way
Wow this really seems devastating for the Farmers. Who are you trying to fool.
We know that those Farmers are being subsidized by the taxpayers money via theses programs: Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC).
They are doing just fine. I won't be fooled. And I only have crocodile tears.
no more fleas
When he said the government i think about these rural whites who vote for the rich people who fraternize with Tyson execs..... when do you stop voting for those people? When do you press them to either help you or get out of office?
Every time they said government I think about peace of shit Obama .
You can say it loud, those democrats as seen the Tyson people in such environment...
@@A.Dude. what? Your statement was incoherent
@@DevaJones03 Was it? Do you even know what "incoherent" means?
@@A.Dude. apparently i do because i can type in full sentences. See how you immediately went to disrespect? When all i did was ask a question? I see why your mother doesn't love you.
$1 million dollars 🤦🏽♀️ WHY??? There ARE better ways!
Sounds like digital bit farming cryptogipyo
Sounds like the health care system. No wonder Luigi unalive Brian. Welcome to the united states of corporates
big fish eat little fish
And Trump wants to deregulate
It doesn't look like Biden did these farmers any good?
Indeed. Heavy regulation is what has created million-dollar entry barriers that only substantial capital can get someone into the game. Thus, only conglomerates run the show.
What I wouldn't give to have a public no-holds-barred with you.
this is way messed up
It’s a damn shame
Trump campaigned on helping farmers
One-sided reporting. There are no success stories
After watching what the chicken industry does to American farmers
"I WILL NEVER EVER FATHER STRIKE ME DOWN IF I BUY A CHICKEN PRODUCT AGAIN"
I WILL TEACH MY GRANCHILDREN ABOUT THE INDUSTRY..
A CHILD CAN FIGURE THIS IS WRONG.."
PRESIDENT TRUMP GET INVOLVED PLEASE ..ELON SLAM THEM WITH YOUR OPINION..
MAKES ME ILL..
Capitalism at its best
I’m sorry but this is why city people think country folks are dumb. Going to mortgage your entire life waaaaaay beyond your ability to pay for it, for a shady contract written to benefit the corporation and give you absolutely no leverage or say in what you do. Then you’re going to be upset when it doesn’t go your way. 🤔🙄
The farmer needs to be the producer and the retailer. Cut out the middleman altogether and take back control of your lives, your future, and the safety of our food systems! Unfortunately it’s too late for the folks in this video unless they want to go through bankruptcy and have to completely start over.
Did you not watch the documentary, or somehow entirely miss that the contracts are intentionally misleading? How can this be an individual failure when such a high percentage of actual (working) farmers are in debt... This is a systematic and intentional abuse of working people, people who believe in the same things you seem to believe in -- rugged individualism and hard work. It's an abuse by those in positions of power, not a moral or intellectual failing.
ruclips.net/video/yS5GJYlHkp4/видео.html I think your recommendation is to be like this farm, which is also struggling because the consumer costs are artificially low. That clip shows it's not the individual working farmer's fault that our food system is fragile and only profitable to corporations. We need to shift focus to fixing those systems that make it impossible to survive as an independent -- or even contract -- farmer. It's not unreasonable to think that contracts should benefit both parties, promoting efficiency and cooperation.
Meanwhile the housing bubble that caused by wanna be suburbanites who needed 5000 ft² homes and 3 car garages burst and brought the country economically to its knees. Just stop.
@@sommbre Well said, well said. Nothing is wrong with making a living until these companies want more.
You're both right in a way. The country dude trusts to easily city people often anticipate a con from jump especially from a large company. Common sense ain't always common
I just want to say GOODY. YOU SINGLE HANDEDLY SCREWED US ALL. YOUR GREED WAS OUT GREED BY BIGGER WHO WORKED TOGETHER. HE WHO LOVES MONEY THAT MUCH THAT YOU WANT TO OUT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN A SECRET SIGNATURE WILL LOSE. SO, YOU GOT YOUR MONEY. HOWS IT GOING FOR YA. When we can admit our wrongs to ourselves like that then go back and deal with what we were trying to avoid which was people and showing them traded secrets scared they’ll sell more than you at the farmers market this happens but if we can finally deal with that and put our heads together we can come up with ways to first save another before ourselves. Stop trying to save your own life you will lose it God says. We all do it we are all guilty. Stop. Now you have a problem because they did it better. Imagine they will lose the exact same way but much larger.
Out around Moorefield West Virginia chicken farms is one of the largest employers. Everybody works at a farm or slaughter house 🐔 🛖