Decent explanation of why farmers are surprised the leopard is eating their faces. TL;DW kulaks assumed they’d get a chunky subsidy like always, and they did not.
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Been wondering how this would play out, farmers planted the same amount as usual even without buyers lined up assuming the guard rails would hold. Now they don't have anybody to harvest or sell to. Deffinitly gonna be some grapes of wrath ripe for the picking soon.
Luckily leftists are ardent readers and are prepared for how this is going to go down.
That would require talking to country folk and ewwww.
-most leftists I know
but shining.
Wait I don't think I understand why Fanon is relevant
In Wretched of the Earth he talks about the need for revolutionaries to connect with the people outside of the cities.
I talked to my farming buddy about this. He said it’s definitely a real thing especially for soybeans. But he’ll probably just end up storing more from his harvest this year and ride it out. I know every situation is different, but just thought I’d throw that out there.
But he’ll probably just end up storing more from his harvest this year and ride it out.
Then your buddy is better prepared than like 90% of farmers, who hsve overleveraged the hell out of their holdings and have debts they counted on selling this year's harvest to service. The (immediate) problem isn't so much that farmers have a glut of product to sell, it's that the farming sector, like almost every other productive sector in the global north is finsncialized to hell and back, getting strapped to the global financial system like a suicide vest that starves you to death instead of blowing you up.
Hell, even if you don't have large operational debt, the capacity for storage you need to ride out these kinds of things requires large capital investments: money most farmers don't have at hand, and get loans for. I'm sure it was a genius move to plug the food system to part of the economy that's been the cause the past 3 or 4 times there was a recession. No problems there.
What does "store more and ride it out" look like. I don't know the shelf life of soybeans even in ideal conditions but I don't see China changing course and suddenly buying more next year.
Difference in a society that makes plans on a 10, 50 and 100 year time frame and a society that would let you pay them $100 to burn your house down because hey, it's $100 they didn't have before.
Monitor the markets and haul when they spike. Don’t know how long they stay good but probably a couple years maybe. You’ll lose some to rot over time but it’s better than selling low. He mostly grows corn and has pigs too so it’s not like that’s his only source of income.
it sure is tuff owning a bunch of land and then exploiting migrants to harvest your speculative cash crops
It's crazy when what we said would happen happens
Time for Bill Gates to buy up more farmland
Being proletarianized is the one thing that might eventually make the farmers tolerable
Endless $500k Mcmansions 
gates mostly wants to monopolize food production, not real estate
Ahh I thought he was squatting on farmland until it became "unviable" (food too expensive) and then scorch earth sell them to developers to make a permanent renter class, deny generational weath via Gates-keeping homeownership, and then permanently deleting farmland driving food prices even higher while sucking every disposble penny from the working class. 
All the farmlands around here are becoming housing developments.
Better be Bill Gates Foundation than Monsanto, Americans like norms and choosing the lesser of the 2 evils afterall
they voted for this.
don't feel sorry for the '''Farmers'''', there is no such thing as working class farmers in the US, only temporary failed plantation owners
Voting to decimate their own markets (The communists, you can’t make this shit up) by waging war against China
It sounds like a weird joke
Drought is driving a shitload of my ranching neighbors out of business, people are selling properties that have been worked by their families for over a century
There's already a profound ongoing reorganization of the social order in rural america and all this will just accelerate it
Good. Fuck farmers.
Me watching all the old pastures and grasslands get turned into subdivisions and fast food chains. Guess this is just going to happen faster now.
extremely obscure by this point but I can't exactly take that term seriously without immediately thinking of the name of a level, that for some reason rests in the back of my head, from an archeological artifact of a game, sprung from a primordial internet:




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