• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    If only there were some way they could have known this would happen ahead of time and then done something about it!!

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    Yep I fully expect my job to be impacted by end of summer. Which sucks. But farmers voted for this. All of them iny area are bitching badly about prices right now. but none have done the math on who to blame. They would figure it out quick if a Democrat was in power but right now they seem clueless as to why this is happening

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      Oh, they’ve done the math on who to blame. They’re just working on the math for how to blame the democrats.

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      when the first time farmers was affected in trumps first term, they were hopeful he would come around and save them, most dint survive. and these"farmers" are likely the owners who hire immigrants anyways.

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    First 2-3minutes are worth a watch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8&t=0

    The Strait of Hormuz is not only a shipping route for oil, but also for fertilizers and helium. So things are going to start to get worse before they get better, and the ripple caused by this is slowly starting to hit North America.

    Also helium is used in chip manufacturing so DRAM is about to get even a hell of a lot more expensive, then it already is…

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        Even worse than that, poorer countries will starve because of this. America is rich. They have the money to pay more for 3rd world food than the locals can, so it’ll be exported to the US instead of feeding the hungry at home. It’ll be the Irish Potato Famine all over again.

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        So what? The US causes famine all over the world whenever it wants to for political reasons. Look what Cuba is going through simply because they won’t change government to what the US wants. If there is any karma, Americans should feel some of the pain they so blithely inflict on others.

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          It’s wild that you want over 300 million people to suffer because a psychopath got a bunch of other psychopaths to rig an election.

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        And their kids, who are innocent and likely suffering under their parents already.

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        most of its usually alfalfa crops, or soybeans anyways. nuts, fruits, etc are usually grown in california mostly and citruses too, in florida. anything tropical like coffee, mangoes,etc require tropical countries.

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    29 days ago

    Oh no! If only someone had warned them! Or they’d learned from the last time! When exactly the same shit went down! They couldn’t have known!

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    That’s crazy, who could have predicted that Trump would be worse for them!? I know didn’t 🙄. But I certainly didn’t see endless “MAGA”, “I did that!”, and “Fuck Biden” signs gleefully hanging everywhere in farming areas…

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      There are many different kinds of farms and they all need different inputs. Most impacted would be the corn and soy farms who produce a low value good for a lot of inputs in the form of fertilizer, seeds, sprays, fuel for heavy machinery etc. Least impacted would be beef producers who use wild grazing. Almost no inputs as the land produced the grazing by itself, at the same time they produce a high value good.

      Of course there are lots of intermediates but those would be the extremes.