As President Trump outlined the goals and objectives of the tariffs during his address to congress, President Trump noted how the American farmer will no longer have to compete unfairly within the U.S market against cheap imported food products.
President Trump notes U.S. food prices are positioned for major supply-demand changes that will benefit all American consumers. What President Trump states in his speech to congress, is the reality we experienced in 2018/2019 as the result of national agriculture supply. WATCH:
This is what happens when the American food supply equation is modified to focus on domestic production to the benefit of domestic consumers. The food supply chain will shift, slowly at first and then ultimately by around Thanksgiving of this year (fall harvest) we will see major price drops in the American food basket.
There are going to be major opposition forces, notably related to decades of Big Ag exfiltration, screaming that U.S. consumers will see higher prices. However, as previously experienced/outlined these claims are entirely false. We will see major drops in food prices as a result of a more balanced U.S production-import/export dynamic.
In the short term, there will be some supply chain disruption as the import equation (total cost of goods) changes to reflect the tariff impact. However, long term, we will see (example citrus) farm products returning to FL/CA farm production from Mexico.
Generally speaking, about 50% of the USA bulk food system is ‘one full harvest’ ahead of demand. Grain silos, frozen product and processed food stuffs are generally a full harvest ahead. Ex. the Frozen turkey you purchase in November is a product outcome of a production process that takes place all year. Canned foods, dried foods, spices and other derivatives follow the same supply chain background. The length of this process is approximately 6 months.
On the fresh food side (think in terms of the perimeter of the grocery store), the supply chain is thin and holds less inventory in the supply system; the flow from field to fork is much faster. Fresh seasonal foods come/go as this supply chain reflects the seasonal harvests – with a portion of those fresh products also entering the processed space as ingredients.
Our sunbelt farmers can produce everything that is imported from Mexico and central America, an import tariff resets the price structure permitting them to enter the production system with organic profits. It may take a little time for the reset of pricing to travel to new fields and then ultimately to our forks, but it will happen if the USA holds strong in support of the rebalancing.
No Farms No Food !!
I’m in rural Minnesota… it’s 70-30 (or more) pro-Trump. They love VSGPDJT.
Love driving from the socialist Arrowhead, across Hwy 210 to Fergus Falls, and seeing the large areas of sanity within our state.
Wonderful, too, to stop and buy farm fresh eggs from one of many Amish holdsteads along the drive for $4 a dozen.
The Arrowhead, by and large, is filled with the mentally ill. Once you get off I-35 and on 210 you start crossing CD8 into CD7…two of the most pro-Trump CDs in the nation.
CD8’s nightmare is that it includes the Arrowhead.
Yes, I live surrounded by mentally ill people. The local socialist paper makes me ill. Week after week most of the articles lie about President Trump. I’ve been shocked at times that the sports columns don’t include our President, too, since they can’t keep their TDS yaps shut.
Told my husband just this morning that from now on I’m going to leave the socialist newspaper in our mailbox every Friday and start it on fire. It makes me so angry that these people are blind sociopaths hell bent on destroying our country.
I have to keep myself sane, and not reading a paper that is delivered for free to every mailbox in Lake County every week is one way to do that.
The other is to spend as much time as I can with sane people, while living here with the spiritually dead and darkened hearted.
I feel for you!
Small farms better food!
Also… botany is miraculous, something wonderful to cultivate. A cousin sent me a video about “Depression-era” nutritious foods that grow despite cool weather. Some of them I had heard of but never tried, like “salsify” (vegetable oysters?)
Wonderful!
We have several of these things here that grow wild.
A dear friend in coastal california has an artichoke patch her mom planted in the mid 30s and produces like mad. The artichokes are smaller than the ones we see in the stores today, but with much more flavor and in many cases totally edible. The leaves were almost as tender as the hearts. MMMM!!
Thank you for the post!
Some really good vegetables in this video.
I also like okra which is the seed pod of hibiscus. Goes in gumbo.
Also sour grass. A relative told me that in the Southern States after the Civil War they muddled sour grass and used it instead of lemons to make pie and for iced tea.
And what about ramps? But be careful you can get poisoned if you mistake hellebore for ramps.
My nephew got poisoned last year when he ate hellebore thinking they were ramps. He was in the hospital for about a week.
Leftists are not worried about the farms.
They know all food comes from the supermarket.
About a year ago, I was in a rural area of the Chicago suburbs and was able to buy some farm fresh eggs. $4 a dozen back then.
They were so fresh…they were removed from under the hens and placed in the egg carton while I was paying for them.
What an experience!
I had a hair stylist (lady barber) who keeps her own chickens. For a time, she would sell her eggs for $5 dozen.
Tastiest eggs ever, and according to her, less cholesterol. I would always bring an extra $5-10 when going for a haircut.
Then she had some fox intrusions a year or so ago, and didn’t have enough production to sell surplus. And then the price of feed skyrocketed. So she only keeps enough stock now to support her own family.
Local raised fresh will always be the best choice. We are blessed with many nearby farmers markets.
That fox intrusion can be solved with steel traps or a .22 rifle. They probably need the target practice anyway.
Indeed Aggiegirl! My wife’s boss had chickens and we got fresh eggs from her… fresh eggs are another thing altogether! And we had them for free!
“What an egg-sperience”. There, FIFY!
Biden murdered 100 million chickens for no reason. Chickens don’t fly and spread bird flu. He killed the wrong birds!
Why, when Covid broke out (eyeroll) didn’t they just kill not only those who ‘tested positive’ but everyone around them?
Oh, was trying to make an analogy, to show how stupid their responce to bird flu is,..but I guess in a way thats exactly what they tried to do, with the damn clot shot, and the whole ventilators and rundeathisnear.
Sick, deranged, possessed.
Are we going to save all ee can, and then at some point repeat Moses thing of drawing a line in the sand, and simply slaughtering those sick, demented and possessed barstuds, that are beyond recovery?
Yup, and while we all are fervently discussing chickens/chicken killing/bird flu, the Globalist cabal is gleefully pulling the marionette strings on this, their latest weapon against sovereignty and the existing world order — that is, what is currently left of it.
I got 1/2 carton of eggs today. 🙁
Oh no he killed to right ones. If only the R’s would shove (that Bidung brought the egg prices to us via slaughter) up the Dem’s noses/@$$3$…
PDJT could make the case enough but probably won’t as he sees the D’s wrecking ball for what it is. Childish play outside the room where the grownups are talking! Sniff.
We are blessed to live in a rural area and our eggs come from our Amish friends. Fresh eggs are the best!
Yes it is wonderful. I have had chickens for over 30 years off and on. I free range my hens and rooster. The yolks are orange and the eggs taste so much better than store bought. Thank you for your stories about the Panama Canal. I really enjoyed them. God Bless you and God Bless America.
Amen 🙏🏽
Bless you heart. My boss has chickens and gives me eggs. I just cannot eat them with those orange yokes. Doesn’t look natural to me even though I know she feeds them corn to get that shade of yellow.
Leftists want to SHUT DOWN farms…
We know.
Idea – mention this to frustrated people at the grocery store.
Ride the MAGA cultural tsunami for all it’s worth.
2026 will be here before we can even blink.
I know it may be optimistic, but I find it hard to believe even the Repuclicon RINOS can rig the elections enough to get any Democrats in, in 2026.
LOL. yes, supermarket
Let them eat bugs!
Exactly what free range chickens eat…fresh water fish also live primarily on bugs, as do wild birds…I got no problem with “eating bugs”, so long as they come to me in the form of trout and quail.
Yes,
the key is the feed the chickens are fed. Big AG making inferior feed results in poor quality and unhealthy eggs. Bought a chicken from my groomer, who has a farm, and that chicken had no resemblance to the store bought, even the organic. It was pink white skin and the flesh was reddish. The store chickens are yellow and pale flesh. It’s all about the feed!
Oldersoul: I thought that food comes from airplanes and refrigerated trucks.
No private land ownership, no freedom. Beware of Globalists setting financial/debt traps as a way to confiscate and consolidate all real assets, i.e., land, minerals, and water.
It’s the road back to serfdom, and the real treachery of the elite that is somehow rarely addressed as the deadliest threat to freedom and individual rights.
“This is what happens when the American food supply equation is modified to focus on domestic production to the benefit of domestic consumers.”
Let’s start by stop culling entire flocks of chickens just because there was a positive PCR test, which according to it’s now deceased inventor, was never designed to be a diagnostic tool.
Elimination of that Bravo Sierra PCR test will make the World a better place. In fact jailing whomever decided to make that POS the benchmark needs to happen yesterday.
Reminds me of the Covid test strips from Chyna that were “defective”.
6 of my 8 free PCR tests mailed unsolicited to me by USPS tested positive for tap water. 💦
I took a video of my experiment but lost it on my previous phone. Really opened up my sons eyes.
I remember watching several interviews of Kerry Mullis as COVID unfolded and his words rang true from beyond the grave. He said if you run the PCR test long enough you’ll find anything you want to find, even if it’s just fragments.
Or how about the Presifent of the African Country, that trsted a guava, amongst other things?
It trsted positive, of coarse and he said “this is bullshit, and ee are having none of it”, or words to that effect.
Former Tanzanian President John Magufuli. He had masters and doctorate degrees in chemistry.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magufuli
President of Tanzania Didn’t Trust WHO So Sent Samples of Sheep, Goats, Bunny, Trees, Fruit and Car Oil for COVID Testing — The Results Are In, Poor Goat – 5/11/2020
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/president-tanzania-didnt-trust-sent-samples-sheep-goats-bunny-trees-fruit-car-oil-covid-testing-results/
Oh, and President John Magufuli died the next year on 3/17/21.
“Oh, and the President John Magufuli died the next year on 3/17/21.”
Under questionable circumstances, I would like to add. Sure was convenient for the people “pulling the strings” that he made utter fools of by proving it was all a scam.
(The COVID Industrial Complex)
Or when Coke tested positive. There were a bunch of vids on the net showing people testing Coke with the home kits.
https://www.eatthis.com/news-drinks-false-positive-covid-test/me kits.
For readers, Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson. You will learn quite a bit about Covid, and the so called testing.
Deceased August 7, 2019
Funny that, huh?
A coincidence.
PCR Test Founder Kary Mullis Shares – “Tony Fauci doesn’t mind going in front of TV and lying.” ~ 12/11/20
Kary, kinfolk from another tree branch. He has very very interesting history. Read his story. He was not a Fauci fan and told about it. Died from a sudden illness after coming out with a similar statement as mentioned above.
Thank you, Kary Mullis, for providing a valid intellectual reason to abstain from submitting my blood to the Branch Covidian regime. May you rest in peace.
That was just an excuse for the last administration to terrorize Americans and deal the new president another problem
^^ This. X-ring.
and I understand they did 45 cycles to get a positive result
A med express ran my sample 40 cycles and couldn’t get a positive, no antibodies for co vid..they really wanted to give me monaclonal(sp) antibodies.
Any individual who received the jab and performes a pcr test on them selfs will always test positive for the rest of thier lives.
Bill Gates shouldn’t benefit from anything. He needs to stay far away from our food supply. He’s no farmer. He’s an opportunist and deviant. Why does he own the most farm land in America now?
The last time I checked (a year or 2) the video from circa 2010-2012 with him saying outright that we would “reduce the world’s population with vaccines” was still posted on YT. IIRC, it was a TED Talk.
Because people sell their land to him?
he has $$ to purchase and pays well above market prices and value.
Generationally, farms are readily passing on to investors.
Few are on the farm and few are retaining the farm life.
Once farm is inherited, it is readily sold for the highest price. Enter Gates and corporate biz and investors (insur co primarily).
Life on the farm is over except for a small sector.
At least 2-3 generations have been removed from the farm.
I’m old. When growing up, primarily everyone was on the farm.
Now my children and grandchildren are removed. They know the tradition and the history and the heritage, but won’t ever live or operate a farm.
Therein is the massive problem.
As civilization advanced from primarily agrarian for subsistence, industry was primarily geared towards increased food/mercantile production…
Enter the thief {taxation/regulation} to destabilize abundance in the name of ‘fairness’…
Governments consider all property to be “theirs” to control/manage…
There was even an official Declaration made by the Founding Fathers addressing this false pretense…
Best thing {besides RFK Jr.} to do for the food supply is to designate, as God intended, corn as an animate feed/food source…
Not an inaminate fuel source.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
Well said and stated.
And get rid of GMO corn — and other GMO stuff. Stick to the healthy, heirloom seeds.
I am old enough to remember the massive amounts of vacant land on the south side and eastern end of Long Island….duck farms and potato ‘huts’ that one could see from the highway.
In Seaford, there was an old farmer who lived and farmed behind my uncle’s house, who grew a variety of crops and always shared the corn with my uncle…for his middle of August BBQ. Around 1968, the farmer sold out to real estate developers as he was too old and no one in the family waned to farm.
Farming is hard work. You have to have a real love for the land and animals.
A farmer, who is not farming the government, only makes a real profit in about 1 in 3-5 years.
The other years are wiped out by weather or other setbacks.
It takes a really good tough-minded manager that understands the way things work both on the farm and outside forces to make a farm sustainable.
“The Grapes of Wrath” returns
I’m thinking a slow turn-around may be possible. As the MAHA movement pushes for a better food supply with less chemicals, smaller operations may become profitable again.
Plus, people need to go back to cooking for themselves, so they know what’s in their food. I’m fortunate, I stopped buying processed foods and started cooking for myself a few years ago. It’s amazing how much better I feel.
The government makes it too hard for an individual to farm. All the regulations are designed to force farming to factory farms. Factory Farms Grow food to mace you sick. so Big Pharm can pop up with a pill for that.
I hope President Trump changes all that. Bring back the small farm.
He’ll probably put MRNA in everything grown on his land to try and kill us all off.
Funny you should mention that……….
Fox in the Henhouse- mRNA “Bird Flu” vax
You can lead a USDA bureaucrat to water, but you can’t make ’em think.
ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
FEB 20, 2025
“…This is all tracking pretty much precisely as Peter Hotez had darkly predicted last December, despite the fact that this variant of “Bird Flu” has been circulating in the continental USA since 2022, and other H5N1 variants have been circulating in domestic and wild birds for as long as there has been tracking of Bird Flu – many decades.
As if that is not enough, there is now advocacy that another leaky mRNA vaccine (for H5N1) be developed and mass deployed for use in our poultry including meat and egg chickens, just like we had a leaky mRNA vaccine developed and mass deployed in humans for a rapidly mutating coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. How many times do we need to run this experiment? Do you remember this zinger? Flat out disinformation from the CDC, denying that the COVID mRNA vaccines are leaky…”
“…Is it possible to break out of USDA groupthink and consider a different approach to the problem of “Bird Flu”? Like breeding H5N1 – resistant flocks by selecting birds from infected flocks that didn’t get sick and die? That is the ONLY way we can resolve this…”
https://www.malone.news/p/fox-in-the-henhouse-mrna-bird-flu
Gates is a deviant. If the Epstein list ever is declassified his name will surely be on it.
“Why does he own the most farm land in America now?”
In 1970, Henry Kissinger said “Who controls the food supply controls the people. Who controls the energy can control whole continents. Who controls money can control the world.”
“This concept is critical to understanding the thinking of those who seek to cripple and control America.” ~ Col. Phil Waldron, Source: “Your Wakeup Call” (Link)(@1:17)
^^^ This becomes a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY. We need to protect our farmers, protect the quality of our soil (regenerative farming), protect the quality of the food produced, protect raw materials for production, harvesting and storage.
The Federal Government’s inception was for the sole purpose of protecting the American public.
He should be hung.
Hello, serfdom! You will own nothing and you will be happy.
It will be interesting to see if the de-weaponizing of the BlueCoat Federales against US citizens extends quickly to agriculture. Recall the attack on the Amish for eggs and milk, for example; there are many others.
What about all the mysterious fires that occurred in our food industry and meat packing plants. All suspicious
BY design, always.
They want an American Holodomor.
Good Word , Breener!
Will a Mysterious Food-Related Fire be Next ?
I haven’t heard about one of those in a while .. hmmmm 🔥
There is a massive fire burning all over America right now. Its called ethanol.
Trump needs to get farmers cheap fuel and fertilizer asap. Tariffs are often transient. Cheaper operating costs can benefit longterm.
Grain
There was talk of tax deductibility of car loans?
There should be the same and more for the farmers and their equipment…! I heard somewhere that a tactor type piece of equipment can cost $100k, new.
way more
Farmers can deduct said Interest on Sch F.
He wants to restore 100% deductibility of capital expenditures for businesses – wouldn’t that be even better?
Yes.
And the VSG usually makes a habit of “even better.”
A small piece of equipment for $100k.
$2mil+ for combines etc.
This past year, my wife and I visited my brother in Nebraska. They live in the heart of the farmland there, nothing like driving on the interstate, completely surrounded by corn fields. He took us to visit one of his friends who was a corn farmer there and they were in the middle of the seed corn harvest. His combine was over $1.25 million and was an amazing piece of machinery that utilized GPS to not only help harvest the corn but it also would let you know the yield of each bit of acreage so that fertilizer usage could be tailored for that field. The operator drove the combine down the rows of corn where it would cut the stalks from the ground, separate the corn from the stalk, shuck the corn, remove the corn kernels from the cob, then spit the stalk, cobs and waste back onto the ground where it could be composted back into the soil for the nutrients. It was a very humbling experience to see the sophistication that goes into just this one piece of equipment which is just part of the process of growing corn.
I think if the American consumer had a better understanding of just what is required to bring food to their table, they might be more appreciative of those who live in ‘flyover’ country.
I climbed up in one of those things a few years back.
It looked like there are more control panels in a combine than a big airplane.
I am always amazed at how crop farming is continually changing.
Planting through the corn stalks instead of cutting them into the soil to help with erosion. Cotton pickers that pick the cotton, roll it in a roll and wrap it in plastic. It is out of the weather so the truck can pick it up whenever. Tractors running off of satellite putting precise fertilizer on the field according to the tested need for that spot.
Bloomburg says anybody can be a farmer, just put a seed in the ground and it grows. There has never been a more stupid statement made.
Today’s farmer has to be a computer specialist, hydrologist, market analyst, mathematician and so many other things Bloomberg has never even thought about.
You’re stretching it there a bit….. $1 million plus. Ofcourse you have all the extra Grain carts, Semi Trucks etc.
I know that PDJT in his speech to Congress mentioned that these types of purchases will be 100% tax deductible in the FIRST years instead of being spread out over many years.
That would help take the sting out of the cost of the machinery.
I think that a group of individual farmers should be able to approach a seller and get a group discount if they order at the same time and take delivery en masse.
Most farming equipment has always been 100% write off. Try $800,000 to $1 million+ for one new Combine.
A new XSeries John Deere tops $800,000.
Amen railer! Used to pay $500 a ton for fertilizer. When Biden was first in office it went to thousands $$$$! We have cattle and grow and harvest our own hay to feed them. We couldn’t afford to fertilize our fields and the quality of our hay went down so did the quality of the cattle we sell. We are very small and only have one fourth of the cattle we had in 2020.
So, instead of so much focus on “rare earths” we need some emphasis on securing supply lines of fertiliser,…or farmers need to change their methods, and use manure instead of so much fertiliser made from what,…?
Bio Char is the answer, Dutch. Korean weed tea(not cannabis) for nitrogen, banana peels and fermented used coffee for potassium for blooming, crushed egg shells for trace minerals.
No petro chemicals or PFAS or microplastics necessary, outrageous results!
Cows and chickens make a pretty good product.
I’m just a city gal, now a suburban gal with a big gardening habit, so my greens planter is always supplemented well with chicken manure. The lettuce, spinach, and herbs I get in the season are scary good.
There is only so much manure to go around.
Ammonium is an oil by-product. To get the price down you have to get the oil price down as well as have more refineries to produce it. Potash is also an oil product.
Ammonium makes the grass grow leaves and potash feeds the roots.
Other products are needed based on the type of soil you have.
Hi Dutchman. I’ve been using my horse manure and chicken manure from the coop as fertilizer for 25 years on my vegetable garden. Great stuff I let it mature over the winter in a compost pile, then use it the following growing season.
You ain’t kidding.
You need cows to make poop. The post above yours points out the problem. Smaller cattle herds= less poop.
Nitrogen Fertilizer is made from Natural gas, a resource we have plenty of.
I trust Trump will start producing more NG and keep it in the US to make fertilizer. Instead of exporting it all to Europe and driving our domestic fertilizer prices up. As FJB has been doing the last 4 years.
Anhydrous fertilizer partially fluctuates with the cost of natural gas, its base stock. Also a lot of energy goes into producing anhydrous. Lower energy prices will help lower the cost.
I haul anhydrous ammonia, and prices fluctuate also with how much stock a producer (CF industries, Nutrien, Koch Fertilizer) has. If their storage facilities start getting full they’ll have a “fire sale” to prevent them from having to shut down production. Restarting one of these facilities is a major headache.
We get a lot of Fertilizer from Canada. Fertilizer prices have just gone up with the tariffs.
We don’t produce much Phosphorus fertilizer (K) It is vital for plant growth. We get most of K fertilizer from Canada.
So unless Trump relaxes tariffs on Canadian Fertilizer. Prices are expected to increase a lot for this vital plant mineral.
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/02/tariff-threats-and-us-fertilizer-imports.html
Actually, another answer is Aquaponics, it uses the hardware systems of hydroponics, but instead of purchased chemical fertilisers, the water for the growbeds circulates with fish tanks.
A bacteria on the grow bed medium, converts the Nitrates in the fish pee/poop to Nitrites, which fertilise the plants, simultaneously cleaning the water so the nitrates don’t build up to toxic levels and kill the fish.
HAVE to use “all natural” ,..like no pesticides cause they also would harm the fish.
Can be scaled from a tabletop model, to a window unit, a balcony, a back yard or a commercial operation, and you can start small and learn as you grow.
And, with a little ingenuity, you can feed the fish bugs, because once the system is set up, the only input is a little electricity to run the pumps (solar) and fish food.
Figure out ways to ‘harvest’ a lot of bugs and get them to the fish, and it eliminates the need to buy fish food.
You do realize The Canadian currency will most likely go down if they keep playing games…. and pretty much make a tariff null and void against us right?
“Most Likely” does not mean that Canada and Mexico will devalue its currency to sell stuff in the US
What if they both stand firm and join China in the trade War that is heating up to a boil.
https://x.com/chineseembinus/status/1897132043362034153?s=46&t=2ftvSAT07xEMmN0oGtG_dg
“Intimidation does not scare us. Bullying does not work on us. Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the right way of dealing with China. Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy and miscalculating. If the U.S. truly wants to solve the fentanyl issue, then the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals. If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.”
Trumps plan sounds good to me.
Sundance,
I believe you have made the point that global firms (Cargill, ADM, Bayer, etc) own much of our farming capacity today. How are they prevented from manipulating the food producti0n market? I anticipate they will create a supply shock so everyday Americans feel inflation sry pressures.
Keeping in mind coglomorate may have blue collar farmers manning the fields, but these people are in essence captured labor through the contracts they must sign to stay operational and bring their goods to market via these global firms.
From RT 47 in IL all the way to near Des Moines on I 80…its all cornfields pretty much…and appears to be corporate corn fields.
While I love my next door neighbors…an awful lot of that corn goes to the gas tanks, screwing up your car engines. Maybe its time for change in the corn industry? Food rather than fuel?
And very few dairy establishments…
We need to hopscotch Iowa for the early GOP primary. Eliminate ethanol mandates. Read Luongo on RIN’s.
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/biofuel/renewable-fuel-standard-hurting-consumers-u-s-refineries/
Thanks for the link. I’ve long thought “renewable fuel” from food crops was stupid. The early vision was to use inedible cellulosic waste for alcohol, but that didn’t yield enough to be profitable. Time to dump an ultimately unworkable idea!
There’s a very funny film scene of a tech idiot trying to run his expensive car with bacon grease in the rom-com flick Jane Austen Book Club.
Over Grandpa Ethanols dead body !
Big Ag is pretty much conception to death, seed to harvest with all essentials. Equipment is GPS massive and comfortable. In the 80s railroads that ran to rural town elevators were sold or torn up, now many are trails. The Teamsters wanted over the road. Ethanol plants now have a steady stream of semis hauling corn. I suppose the elevator knows the street legal weight and I am sure the wheel tax pays for the maintenance of the highway.
To solve the ethanol problem is simple.
It is like windmills. If the government will quit subsidizing it, it will go away.
It is not financially feasible and uses too much water.
“It is like windmills. If the government will quit subsidizing it, it will go away”
As well as the mandated 10% added to our petrol for fueling our horseless carriages. Autos were designed to deal with it, then big guv upped it to 15% after millions of vehicles in use were designed for 10%.
Yes, 5% is a big deal for the computerized systems. Anyone with a boat or small engine knows to seek out ethanol free.
Q: If ethanol is so great, why is banned for aircraft?
A: It has issues. No EToH in aviation gasoline!
I simply love that man.
Did you know that it is extremely hard to buy just hatched baby chicks right now? Huge competition among buyers for a limited early season supply from the hatcheries to the farm stores. Even fertile eggs for incubation are being bought up as soon as available.
I’m only reporting from Virginia but folks are traveling interstate to try for deliveries to the farm stores. Seems to be a “backyard” small flock chicken phenomena.
The egg and chicken shortage at present highlights the artificial conditions in US agriculture. At rock bottom everything which the federal government is involved in regulating and subsidizing becomes dysfunctional.
The other concerns are the “big Ag” factory farms and the ever more limited grocers which are moving towards a monopoly of only a few chains available in any one area.
Support your local farmer by direct purchase if possible or from the increasing number of farm to fork small stores and produce stands/farmers markets to obtain better quality for the money.
I passed by a Tractor Supply in rural South Texas last Saturday that had a sign out that Chicks had arrived.. I assumed it was the feathered variety. /s
Hopefully not a crop of disrespectful singers . . .
Yes the same thing here in North Texas Tractor Supply. Saw chicks in the store.
If Lee Zeldin would get his EPA downsized and out of the way, we would begin recovery on many levels.
Yeah buddy, just like Reagan said, be wary when you hear them say, “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”
Shop the organic section. Buy organic foods and meat. That supports small farms also
The big plus with organics is is you will be healthier.
The chemical, hormone, antibiotic, MNRA, laden non organic food is poison.
Many folks do not trust the government. Yet gobble up the” Government Approved Foods” by the mouth full.
I have never understood that.
Ppl should stockpile eggs for Easter baskets now if that’s your tradition. If fresh they should keep well until then.
Make Food Great Again
MFGA !!!
I’m in ag sector. MAJOR decline and losses from weather, prices over the past 2Y Global markets have been crushed since COVID. When you travel to Europe, Asia and Africa, those countries have obtained food sources from other countries; primarily the same countries we as the USA went over and taught, funded and are now taking our markets.
TRUMP has to get the ag sector going again and primed. It’s in major decline.
In principle this is looking to your government to solve problems which is not what made this country great.
It is ultimately up to the producer to adapt to what will be closer to a “free market” based on supply and demand versus corporate manipulated markets.
Not being intentionally disagreeable just pointing to the principles of what made America what it used to be.
Totally agree. Make markets open and free. Farmers will plant and grow what is in demand and needed. Domestically and world-wide.
Govt is NOT the answer, to anything!
At present, cotton market price is under production costs. Same for corn.
Farmers will grow what they are paid well for and relative to the farms/land/soils they have.
Mississippi can grow cotton in the delta and rice. Those same crops aren’t well suited for many other places.
It’s that simple.
Bakersfield, Calif area. You should visit and see the ABUNDANCE of crops, vegs/fruits, etc grown for the world.
Midwest is the grain belt, plain and simple.
Minnesota areas can grow sugar beets.
Florida is ripe with sugar cane, citrus.
NC has massive swt potatoes, Christmas trees.
Tx is cattle country.
All states have their niches. Let them grow, produce and make a profit. They will! They will also police and monitor themselves and each other.
Micro farming is getting big here in Florida since most folks seem to be in an all fired hurry to pave every square inch of the State.
If everyone in a community got really good at growing 2 or 3 different vegetables and or fruits on their properties, neighbors can trade excess Produce between households. (That’s what we do in my rusticated hood)
With 4 distinct growing seasons we are rivaled only by Hawaii in scope of potential production. There is no excuse.
Of coarse, another whole issue is HARVESTING the crops, which leads to those “jobs Americans won’t do” i.e. legal or illegal migrant labor.
Before workers would come north, work the crops, make $, and go back home.
Then, made it too difficult to cross, so they stay and send $ home.
Theoretically, robots CAN be used to harvest all crops, and would (like tractors to combines) be the next technological innovation in farming…but as long as farmers can get cheap human labor, they won’t put up the $ for robot harvesters…
Jr. has the idea of co-op farms, where drug addicts go to clean up, and work the farm as part of their rehab, while getting nutritious food.
IDK,..
Yes the Government is the problem with its over regulation and control.
Trump needs to pull back regulations and control. Then Stand back and watch our farms bloom.
Solar physicists project that we will be heading into a Grand Solar Minimum. The current swings between extremes are one of the historical symptoms due to jet stream fluctuations being meridional rather than zonal/latitudinal.
If they are correct, this will only increase as the sun’s wind/heat output diminishes. Historically, such times had negative impact on crops, etc.
Not to be a doomer, but a heads up about what could be enroute and that preparedness will be everything. The weather will have a bigger impact on the market than it currently does.
The hard part about this possibility: we won’t know that we are in a Minimum until we “look back” and see that it has actually formed.
Indoor growing won’t be reserved for cannabis anymore..
Funny you mention Indoor growing.
People who run commercial hot houses add extra CO2 to their controlled atmosphere to increase crop production.
Yet the lefty greenies want less Co2 in our planets atmosphere.
Just something to think about 🙂
I have stumped many a leftoid stoner with that information. It’s funny to watch their expression change as their operating system “buffers” then they realize they’ve been duped for a very long time. It’s a buzzkill and an awakening at the same time for them!😉
Might want to look into the ongoing Magnetic Pole shift as well. It has a great affect on climate change.
Some think it is linked to our Sun’s activity.
I truly welcome your thoughts on how to do that. I am not close enough to be aware of the details.
My natural inclination is to bust the monopolies that own the means of production. But, is that a true and possibly an effective solution?
I will defer to your expertise.
Attacking Big Ag is a bit like attacking Big Oil. Their bigness delivers economies of scale, which optimises returns to both farmers and shareholders in very competitive markets. Around 20% of all US farm production goes to export markets, and those markets are incredibly competitive and volatile. Once Trumps tariffs are implemented, there will be reciprocal and punitive tariffs placed on US exported farm produce by certain countries and export market share will fall. If the USD increases against a basket of foreign currencies, American foodstuffs will become even more expensive in foreign markets and so market share will fall even further. A good proportion of that 20% of exported farm produce will be turned back towards the US domestic market, prices will drop and yes, consumer prices should fall. Those farmers who supply the bulk of the exported US farm produce are in for a world of pain that not even the big ag companies will be able to assuage. Trump had better quickly find a few $billion in subsidies to dole out to those farmers hardest hit.
You had me shaking my head in agreement until you hit reciprocal tariffs.
Here is why:
1) The reciprocal tariffs will force the commodities to remain in the U.S.
2) The items do not have a long shelf life. Field to Fork is not years.
3) Those items will be sold domestically. Imagine a 20% (using your numbers) increase in supply. Prices drop to move the good.
4) Now is when the AG Conglomerates come into the picture.
5) Do we see these organizations slow down production to elevate the price domestically?
6) Does PDJT demand a return to production levels pre-tariffs under the auspice of the commerce clause?
7) Does PDJT begin breaking up these conglomerates due to national security concerns?
I do understand how your thinking make sense. I am coming at it from a potential solution process flow for the problem you are describing.
PDJT has also specifically recognised that in addition to tariffs, another unfair trade practice is for countries to devalue their currency, in relation to the $, to try to compensate for his tariffs, and he will fight currency manipulation, if they try it.
Not clear to me, exactly how…
bump up the tariff to match manipulation
We must keep our resources in the USA, if a country is friendly then we can trade with them. If they are hostile…. at the top, they need to get a new leader. Canada in this instance.
If we transcend first order thinking, GMO crops present a clear and present danger to future food security (Round Up-ready, “gene-guard technology,” so-called terminator seeds, GURT, etc.) all threaten independent farms’ ability to produce without permission from Big Ag going forward. That is my primary concern. I have some experience/skin in this game.
I grow source and grow heirloom varietals.
“Potential risks and costs associated with GURTs include intra- and interspecific escape of the technology, reduced access and increased cost of genetic material for breeders, increased regulation, liability risks in the event of GURT failure or escape, increased seed costs for farmers, further limits on access to novel genetic material for farmers, greater industrial control over agriculture, and a further decrease in agro-biodiversity.”
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.4141/CJPS06033
“…and a further decrease in agro-biodiversity.”
Nodding in agreement. That is a big one in plants and livestock.
“better quickly find a few $billion”
Would some tax breaks cover it?
This was how you commit suicide for a country. Think of the USA as a castle under siege in ancient times, and the army outside the wall just waits them out. In time they run out of food and just open the gate.
Since Kissinger/Rockefeller’s and Nixon opened up the slave labor markets in China they have intentionally off-shored everything, exacerbated by GATT, NAFTA and sent manufacturing, medicine, food, everything…great for the Fortune 1000, cheap junk making us subservient to other nations.
For instance, think about shutting down the San Joaquin Valley in California, intentionally cutting off the water to save a bait fish. This is some of the most fertile land on earth, “WITH WATER!” At first I thought it was just stupid, in the fullness of time it is part of the plan to break down the walls of the castle for our eventual destruction.
Right on with our farmers of America, we’ll get back control of food.
MAGA! …by tilling the soil.
You are correct. Bakersfield area is the richest of the rich. Yet, the water level and supply is so treacherous. Sacramento has DESTROYED the water supply in that area. Farmers there produce very imaginable crop and food. Yet, Sacramento destroys the area and those farmers consistently. The area is HEAVY RED; yet Calif is controlled by the left. Want to see the land of plenty, start in Fresno and go south.
About 6-8 months ago, there were articles referencing a family in control of areas of California’s water…friends of Pelosi I think….anyone remember who they were?
Resnick? They do pistachios, among other things. Poor CA. I’m glad we fled to UT 13 years ago .
Almonds, pomegranates..
Remember Chinatown?
Its all about the WATER.
And no, its not ‘stupid’ its intentional.
Resnik. Wonderful Farms, Paramont Farms. Setton Pistacios. POM, FIJI
https://perfectunion.us/how-this-billionaire-couple-stole-californias-water-supply/
Nut trees, take a phenominal amount of water, in relation to what they actually produce in terms of edible foods.
But, CHINA’s demand for almonds (mainly, also walnuts and pecans) means the growers can be confident when they first plant, that 4-5 years later, when the trees actually begin to produce nuts.
Something like 1000 gal. of water, to produce on lb of almonds.
Growers move into an area, and the water table drops, and drops, and drops to where it becomes impractical to farm anything, then they move on.
We have a # of large nut orchards being planted in my area,…currently the water table is pretty high, well water costs $1.00 for 300 gallons, but as those trees mature, I expect it to go up in price, as the water table drops.
I still have family in Tulare County. They pushed out most of the almonds a while back, pistachios is the thing now. Spot on concerning the water table. South Valley was mostly family farms until recently, the New York boys, via LA are moving in.
Dark spiritual element in controlling our food production while contaminating it. Reminds one of Big Pharma. They want us fat and sick. Our politicians have failed us while enriching themselves. Trump & his fantastic team are leading a true revolution. God bless, empower, & continue to protect them.
In the Bible, the English translated word ‘sorcery’ is the Greek word ‘pharma’.
Bio-Char For Freedom!
All about bio char
https://www.ars.usda.gov/midwest-area/stpaul/swmr/https://www.ars.usda.gov/midwest-area/stpaul/swmr/people/kurt-spokas/biochar/ people/kurt-spokas/biochar/
and hopefully this time around all those farmers in central CA will actually have water to use…
But the opposition will still be misdirecting messaging on “elite friends tax breaks”
Tbe neocons have no answers
Who is the Treeper that bought a Jersey milk cow with one on the way? I would love an update.
For years I told people we were going back to a mule and wagon, a milk cow, a flock of chickens and raise our own food.
They laughed like I was crazy and I probably am but here we are.
Will Mexico subsidize some of their products? I.e., America buys 81 percent of all avocados produced in Mexico. That’s around 2.1 million metric tons of avocados. Who buys them if Americans think they are too expensive? 🤔
Back in my Zonian days…we had an avocado tree down there….the avocado’s were tasty and the size of softballs…not these puny things being passed off today.
Same with the mangoes….
The Mexican restaurants buy them.
This home cook will manage buying them somehow. Seriously addicted to both avocado and cilantro (luckily I can grow the latter myself).
I’m really glad he went out of his way to discuss tariffs since the concept is clouded in confusion for some people. Everything we need we have right here. We can build it or grow it. Might be a few bumps getting there. I will gladly weather those bumps
“Everything we need we have right here.”
We do not have chromium or titanium.
Does Greenland?
Not to my knowledge. Traditional sources have been Africa and Asia.
Nor do we have Potash production. Needed for a fertilizer. We get most of it from Canada. Now +25%
lets see.. Average 10 years to open a new mine………..That aint a bump it is a mountain.
US tariffs on Canadian imports, including a 25pc tariff on potash, have come into effect today after most market participants expected it to either be further delayed or for an exemption on potash imports.
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-market-news/2663999-us-tariff-on-canadian-potash-imports-goes-ahead
I hope we can do something about these ancient chicken laws for individual owners. We looked into keeping a few chickens once, and the laws surrounding maintaining them are ridiculously restrictive.
In the end, though, we decided not to get them just because we knew we’d probably get too attached to the dumb birds and all we’d end up with is a bunch of old, tough, non-egg laying birds squawking around the yard that do nothing but eat us out of house and home all day. Thank God for farmers because they have the fortitude to do that which we just don’t.
“get too attached to the dumb birds and all we’d end up with is a bunch of old, tough, non-egg laying birds squawking around the yard that do nothing but eat us out of house and home all day. Thank God for farmers because they have the fortitude to do that which we just don’t.”
I have a friend who takes her birds like that to a weekly local farmer’s auction to solve that dilemma.
Or to a local butcher who’ll do the dirty work for you.
The only ones I know around here that are not retired are Halal certified.
I have done deer. Parents and maternal grandmother did some geese here 1980-81. Grandma grew up on a farm.
If I have made eye contact with any of God’s creatures…am doomed…could never slaughter a cow, a lamb, pig or a sheep…even a chicken, duck or even one of those nasty Canadian Geese…no fortitude in me…
Here is where I prefer to think my meat comes from the back room at the grocers…
And my bacon?, from some guy named Oscar…
I give them a lot of credit…doing what I could never do.
You look at them as food and care for them well because they are food. Always thank the good Lord for providing this food.
Never name them!
If you name them it is names like pork chop, hamburger, drumstick, etc.
STEWart, T-bone, Sir loin,
There’s a picture in this. When you raise them yourself and harvest, you see that the innocent die that I might live. Maranatha….soon
You’ve just never been hungry enough.
That chicken running around the yard begins to look like the makings for a KFC dinner.
(Not being flippant, look at what those poor sods on the survivor shows will eat when hungry.)
We love watching Survivor and seeing how tough life can really get, and what will actually be needed if the world goes crazy.
Yes, it is amazing to see die hard vegetarians capture and kill animals with their own hands when they are hungry, and then butcher, cook and eat those same animals.
They may be crying every step of the way, but when eatin’ time arrives they are all smiles.
I’ve been watching Little House on the Prairie reruns – and several deal with exactly this human issue, especially with children.
If I recall correctly the family usually found some clever way to deal with it.
lol. I know exactly what you mean. It’s a curse. I can’t even kill Bambi.
“eye contact with any of God’s creatures”
My cats pull that off with me when they want something (go outside, belly rub, etc.). Persistent little things, too. You can only ignore them so long before they get vocal.
“I give them a lot of credit…doing what I could never do”
Everyone has their likes/dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, etc. I am sure you can do something a butcher cannot do.
My mother and father in law both grew up on farms, on poor farms, but on farms where they always had food.
They both killed many animals throughout their lives, starting from when they were little kids.
When they got married they moved to the big city and had kids. The kids never lived on a farm and never had to butcher any animal.
But come butcherin’ time back on the farm they’d head “home” with their children, and the kids would be forced to participate in some way — to harden them to reality.
My tenderhearted husband remembers sledge hammers being used on a cow’s head, making the cow’s knees buckle and their tongue come out and swing back and forth as it died.
Worse than seeing all that, he clearly remembers seeing that same tongue — big ol’ taste buds and all — cooked and sitting in the middle of the table for dinner later that day.
Hearing his stories made me very glad I was raised by two city kids. And now in our old age we both know that if there ever comes a time we’ll have to kill and butcher an animal, I’ll be the one to do it.
Fish are the easiest, for some reason…see my post above on aquoponics.
I live in town. No restrictions on hens. Been laying productively for years. I have a small coop and more eggs than I know what to do with.
What time is breakfast? I’ll be there! 😆
I have some old birds roaming around that don’t lay much . some have made it to 10 years and were bought because they are pretty or lay different color eggs just for a pretty dozen when I give them away. I always get some high production type hens that lay a large brown or white egg pretty much every day and then they die. just live 2-3 years. They live with my heritage breeds so I don’t think its their care. They just wear themselves out. I can afford my old favorites too. Have 38 hens and got 22 eggs yesterday. Chocolate color, green white brown and speckled. This year I’ll add 3 blue egg producers and 4 high producers
Knowing my luck, they’d all live for ten years. It’s like my dogs, so far, they’re all living 18 to 20 years and one of them still going strong, barely showing a hint of old age.
You must have a big yard.
Experienced best luck with Australorps, Dominique, and Australorp-Dominique cross.
Farmers need land they control. Control the food supply, control the people.
Bill Gates is not involved with vaccines and buying up U.S. farmland because he wants to make things better for the Walmart shoppers in “flyover America”
Jessica Rose from
8/30/2023
Catherine Austin Fitts Explains the Cabal’s Land and Real Estate Stealing Tactics
Unconditional Jessica cross-posted a video from Due Diligence and Art Jessica RoseAug 30 · Unconditional Jessica This is a really good interview. Catherine Austin Fitts explains exactly how land grabs work from her decades of experience. Catherine Austin Fitts Explains the Cabal’s Land and Real Estate Stealing Tactics We talk about the connections between Lahaina and other devastating fires, and their relationship to the WHO/UN agenda Sasha Latypova Aug 30 READ IN APP Link to video on Bitchute
Catherine Austin Fitts Explains the Cabal’s Land and Real Estate Stealing Tactics
Aug 30, 2023 at 11:49 AM
Unconditional Jessica cross-posted a video from Due Diligence and Art
Jessica Rose
Aug 30 · Unconditional Jessica
This is a really good interview. Catherine Austin Fitts explains exactly how land grabs work from her decades of experience.
Catherine Austin Fitts Explains the Cabal’s Land and Real Estate Stealing Tactics
We talk about the connections between Lahaina and other devastating fires, and their relationship to the WHO/UN agenda
SASHA LATYPOVA
AUG 30
READ IN APP
Link to video on Bitchute
Catherine Austin Fitts is a legend that needs no introduction. She has an incredible amount of knowledge and experience, both as an investment banker and working in government, and then being prosecuted by the government (former Assistant Secy of Housing) for trying to uncover and fight corruption. She is currently the publisher of the Solari Report.
I set up this conversation because I wanted to learn about the tactics that the criminal mafia posing as US federal and state governments are currently using against the people. We focus on the US, but many of my readers can probably recognize these tactics being applied all over the world. The goal of the criminal cabal is well advertised: “save the planet, reduce carbon” by which they mean “we need all the real assets and resources for ourselves, and fewer of you plebs around”.
While this attitude toward the people has been consistent, they have been very careful in hiding the true intent behind nice sounding slogans. This is easy to do when the times are good, financially speaking. When the bubble is being inflated by the central banking hot air, few people will question it or look too closely at the financial machinations. CAF did and was prosecuted for it.
The times are different now. We are at the end of the financial musical chairs game. All that “leverage” is about to un-lever very rapidly, the fake money will turn out to be, well – fake! The cabal are desperate to grab the real stuff. Attractive land is some of the most “real” of the real stuff. They are quite willing to burn and murder for it, as we have seen in Lahaina, HI, Paradise, CA and elsewhere.
Below is a note from Catherine on the tactics the government typically uses to drive people off the land they want and into the “enclosures” they prepare for them. This approach has been uses consistently, starting with the Native Americans, continuing with the poor black and immigrant neighborhoods, and now into the middle class areas that billionaires desire:
Moving people to quarantine is good if you want to install things – but if you are stealing real estate it gets pretty obvious pretty quick. Better to scare them out so they pay their own expenses of going elsewhere. As much as possible, you want “free range” solutions.
Based on what I saw at HUD and during the pandemic, tactics depend on local jurisdictions (local laws, local resources) as well as the covert operations they choose to use locally at the same time. The success of the operations depend on several lines acting in concert: intelligence/surveillance, government in health area, banks and insurance companies, media, real estate developers and investors. This coordination already exists in the management of places, but it is hard for most people to see or fathom. The sweet spot is the amount of real estate that can be picked up and the capital gains this translated into for investors, public traded company etc and the political donations that flow to politicians from capital gains.
Tactics revolve around various options of getting fee title to land and real estate:
1. Force a sale: Do things that shut down private business and personal income and or lower the value of the real estate (including by radically increasing costs, like cost of remediation or requiring installation in new sewer systems or equipment etc) and/or permit the cancellation of insurance. A lot of helpful tactics can be applied through lenders, banks and insurance providers who are playing ball.
2. Condemnation to deal with “pathogens” [this is what WHO Pandemic Treaty aims to do among other enslavement things]
3. Eminent domain – prices will be much lower presumably after the “pathogens” are found
4. Emergency money to help – except all the money goes to “insiders” who are moving in or are playing local person helping the insiders move in and take over
5. Supporting media- very gaslighting – see video here for example https://home.solari.com/deep-state-tactics-101-part-iii-with-catherine-austin-fitts/
6. Poisoning – poisoning of individuals or failures of water systems will cause disability and death which are likely to force sales
In all cases you want to keep things as complex as possible under the guise of “helping” – you will have heavy surveillance of all parties and your covert operations and media in combination can take care of isolating or compromising individual parties who are slowing you down or stopping you. Covert operations will by and large be done by or through corporate contractors and mob (drug cartels)
I suspect they have perfected a lot of the tactics using response to weather warfare “natural disasters”.
In closing, quoting Catherine, you have to be a wealth builder in your mind. You cannot succumb to the mentality of doom and victimhood, no matter what. I hope we have conveyed this in our discussion.
As always, please share with your friends and family. We discussed several approaches to stay safe and preserve your assets/rights. Do not get into “we are doomed” mindset. We are not doomed. We have solutions, we can work with what we have and build resilient support networks. Most importantly, as you shake the sleepers out of their stupor, the cabal loses more and more of its willing foot soldiers. Do not comply.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/catherine-austin-fitts-explains-the?utm_source=substack&publication_id=870364&post_id=136528075&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&isFreemail=true&triedRedirect=true
Sundance….2-3 years ago when you began to forward your tome on Wall Street versus Main Street structural and operational practices, you focused on the fol (simplifying grossly):
…Big Ag oligopolies implementing price differentiation schemes globally for profit maximization
…Big Ag oligopolies funding politicos (i.e., payoffs/bribes) for enabling legal and economic policies/regs; similar agreements/practices with foreign gov’ts.
…American food consumers essentially transferring their wealth overseas in this framework
…All of this in a financial context in which inflation was, until recently, exported
Has your cogent analysis (Wall Street versus Main Street) changed since Jan 20, 2025 and are these deeper structural and financial challenges in the President’s crosshairs (i.e., more tools than tariffs being deployed)?
Farm co-ops are the answer.
I keep looking into this issue, but the information is sparse, old, outdated in most cases, but most unfortunately, I can get a dozen eggs much cheaper at the store than I can going to individual farmers. One day, hopefully, it’ll make sense to just go local.
I pay more for meat from a regional farm that’s big on the old way natural farming. Cheap is good, but sprinkling-in some overpay helps him and might be healthier for me.
I have been buying organic beef directly shipped to my home for about six months now.
A happy surprise has been my grocery expense has actually gone down.
Why? I am not in the grocery store impulse buying.
I get Non USDA approved locally sourced range fed beef from my local butcher. Tastes much better than store bought.
Meanwhile, in Bizarro World…
This is so heart-breakingly grim. The contempt that inept government has for their own population is bottomless.
Last night, the Dems proved to the entire world that they are an unserious group of people who are unfit to rule.
Orrrrrrr……that they are all bought and paid for.
Biden was the ultimate grifter. Politicos have rerouted taxpayer moneys into a full time private wealth enhancement enterprise.
“Orrrrrr…..that they are all bought and paid for.”
If they are bought and paid for, somebody got a bum deal.
They are unfit for human interaction.
https://www.southernliving.com/steak-n-shake-beef-tallow-french-fries-8777925
Stop killing chickens in mass over “bird flu” would be a good start…
let’s start by confiscating the farmland owned by the chinese and bill gates….
Gavin Newsom & his allies just forced 12 historic family farms & dairies out of Point Reyes National Seashore in California.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1896805547837735304.html
They claim it’s about saving the environment — but the truth couldn’t be more different
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For over 100 years, ranchers and dairy farmers have worked the land at Point Reyes. They built Marin’s organic food movement & supplied fresh milk to Californians.
Now they’re being forced out — by environmental groups, the federal government, and Newsom’s political allies.
When Congress created Point Reyes National Seashore in 1962, ranchers voluntarily sold their land to the federal government under one condition: they could keep ranching.
That promise lasted 60 years — until powerful environmental groups decided to change the rules.
In 2022, three environmental groups — Resource Renewal Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, and Western Watersheds Project sued the National Park Service to block 20-year ranching leases.
The lawsuit set off a chain reaction that led to ranchers losing everything.
At first, the National Park Service defended the ranchers. But then The Nature Conservancy — a billion-dollar “nonprofit” with deep political ties to Newsom —stepped in to negotiate a secret deal.
The result? A $30M payout to ranchers who had no real choice but to leave.
The $30M payout might sound like a lot — until you realize it’s being split across multiple families and businesses.
The above is the reason big manufacturing wont come back to America. We are not a stable country. laws that promote stability get turned over, broken, and bought out.
Nobody is going to invest billions to build a factory. Then have the government shut it down because somebody found an endangered species on the property or a cow farted.
Tariffs wont bring business back. Only Stability will. Having one administration opening business. Then the next administration Tax, regulate or outright Ban, the business is not stability.
Onerous laws, taxes. and regulation is what caused instability and drove business out of our Great Country.
Get the government out of the way, and our country would boom.
1. Read the labels.
2. Educate yourself on the strange, long- worded ingredients .
3. Usually less ingredients are better.
Understand where your produce is coming from.
You don’t have to buy
Avocados from Mexico.
You don’t have to buy tomatoes from Canada.
You don’t have to buy blueberries from Peru.
You don’t have to buy tangerines from Chile.
Boycott the countries that are governed by people who don’t like us.
Inadvertently, you will be sending the message to those countries’ voters that maybe they need a change of leadership.
I grew up eating wonderful fresh vegetables when they were in season.
A nice childhood memory is taking the salt shaker down to the garden and picking a warm ripe tomato, wiping it off and eating it like an apple.
Sweet memory🙂.
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yes!
looking forward to food worth the price you paid for it.
tired of rotten or rock hard; tasteless; overpriced; bruised/dented/pierced; grown in third world conditions and contaminated with listeria, e. coli, salmonella (and more!); produce that has more frequent flier miles than you do.
remember when our food supply was flavorful, fresh, close to peak ripeness, decently priced, grown in the USA, and fresh off the truck?
seasonal shopping is a con job now.
for example: “fall apples” are just as likely to come from chile, turkey, or even china as from the USA.
strong advocacy for clear labeling as to country of origin is still needed.
it’s supposed to be done, but have noticed distributors sneakily use a QR code that you have to scan to get the info.
if the QR code is printed on the label, why not just put where it’s grown in the first place?
or, provide the info to grocers so that they can put up a big sign in front of the product clearly labeling it,
so YOU can decide if you want your bananas from Suriname.
seen any of those “news reports” about how Americans waste more food product than anybody else?
does it have anything to do with the fact we are being shipped inedible GARBAGE masquerading as fruits and vegetables?
oh my, had no idea how angry i am about this.😂
but watching my food budget disappear each week with little to show for it is wearing on my nerves!
As sundance observed some time ago, the demand for organic fruits has dropped their price significantly in comparison to the Frankenfruits subject to supply-chain issues.
In the summer I have my own large raspberry patch (the one thing I have been growing for over twenty years). But right now I keep an eye out for the organics. Hannaford frequently carries competitively-priced ones.
As a kid, I would spend some time with grandparents through the summer.
I helped them pick the garden stuff plus apples, pears, cherries, blackberries and black raspberries.
My grandmother canned everything. She actually sun-dried the apple slices.
You can’t hardly find black raspberry jam anymore.
Great memories.
I look for Mexican vegetables. They taste better and are more organic grown. Than the tasteless, chemical laden, cardboard our factory farms produce.
I grow Tomatoes. The tomatoes from Mexico I buy in the winter. Taste almost as good as what I get out of my own garden.
I refuse to Buy American if it makes me sick or tastes like crap.
If I am on the wrong thread, bear with me, am invoking Gibbs Rule #18….my days and nights are mixed up.
Some rambling thoughts on MAHA, food and additives/preservatives etc… along with the unhealthy additives/chemicals….and the food chain of additives, no pun intended…
I will wonder…
…’they’ found a use for ‘fluoride’, an industrial chemical and also an industrial waste/by product, that apparently is used as we all know….I believe it, fluoride, is an ‘industrial waste’…do the industrial industries then ‘sell’ it, the waste, to another industry, for them to use in people products, like water and toothpaste? Am thinking yes….AND….make a profit while hurting humanity. I use fluoride as that is what comes to mind…what else are they sticking in our food?
There needs to be a source of identifying what chemicals are created from what industry that sells to the food industry for preservatives or whatever else to contaminate the food supply…that somehow manage to find their way into the food chain. And get them out of the foods.
And the sludge, more waste that is sold (?) used to add to farm land? That needs to go too. Along with the ‘forever chemicals/plastics’ that contaminate food and livestock.
Still healthy in spite of agri-oligarchs trying to poison us….
Nice post.
Small nuance: waste can be a loaded term. In production terms, these are often described as co-products/by-products that may or may not have secondary markets (i.e., value). Happens all the time in distillation processes.
Otherwise, I share your concerns. Anyone else enjoy PDJT’s joke last night vis RFK Jr and the Dems loss of religion for the Kennedy name? I bring this up because it was funny and because Jr is going to attack these sorts of challenges.
Every water treatment plant in the United States uses the same chemicals to “treat” the water.
Those chemicals all come from the same place, Germany.
Why? What, exactly, is in there? What does it do? And do we really want Germany to make the chemicals that go into all our treated drinking water?
Being of half German descent I say NO!
In the last paragraph, Sundance, you refer to “organic profits.” The choice of the word “organic” when referring to food products has a very important meaning… I buy organic food to the max to avoid pesticides, GMOs etc. Somehow, I don’t think that is what you mean by “organic.”
I wake up this morning, turn on “conservative” radio and hope to hear some cheer over last night.
What did I get?
We need our “friends” so much.
PT is stupid to tariff now,
PT now owns inflation and higher prices. The D’s are absolved.
Do podcasts instead maybe?
What Pretenders were you listening to?
During the first term of PDJT, there was a food surplus. How do I know?
At the local foodbank, there were crates and pallets of produce that the regional foodbank (evil cabal, imo) would drop off in the parking lot and people could just come and take it. No restrictions.
Why? the food was not going overseas, China specifically. Of course this area is run by raving leftists and no one spoke of the reason plus it was the covid insanity so……strange times but food was plentiful.
FF to now, we can’t keep food on the shelves and it is scarce.
There was a discussion by a leftist in the pantry about how the tariffs were going to make food scarcer.
Pure stupidity.
Make a food surplus again, please.
While we are slowly dismantling the evil controlling this country, people are struggling.
The ChiComs take our best and ship us dodgy poison from GloboCorp.
I love the farmers and ranchers.
As a group, they are the most honest, caring, God-fearing people in America.
The sheep industry in Nevada is mostly gone due to New Zealand and Australia and their currency manipulation. You can only get lamb into the US from these countries if your currency in US$ is cheap. Cost in NZ and Australia are high but in their dollars. The weaker currency (and maybe lack of tariffs) make any sheep farming in the US uneconomic.
American sheep meat producers are trying to get Trump to put tariffs onto sheep meat imports. A recent study done by the University of Idaho found that in order for the American sheep industry to JUST MAINTAIN ITS MARKET SHARE, it would need a 21% tariff on lamb imports. A 21% tariff is huge. American consumers are not going to be happy with the obvious outcome!!
The negative short term effects of the tariffs will be far outweighed by the positive long term effects. The media propagandists won’t bother to tell you this because all they want to do is destroy MAGA land the Trump agenda.
President Trump did say last night that things will get tough before they get better.
Now is the time to harden ourselves and really get ready for what we’ve been preparing for, a hard bump in the road to a better tomorrow.
God willing.
One issue for the small farmer is vet care. I only have 8 goats but I can’t find a vet that will do farm calls anymore for them. I used to be able to go to a farm supply store and get antibiotics but that was no longer an option because of new government laws July 2023. They wanted us to have a relationship with a vet -which is hard to find. At least I was able to get some penicillin before the deadline (I store it in more than one refrigerator) and I do have a vet who has given rabies shots to all my critters so I can drive to his office 40 minutes away during the week and get some medicine. a new small farmer in some areas would have difficulty .
I did get 22 eggs yesterday 🙂
they are doing the same to get treatment for bee hives. Have to have a vet dispense. Most beekeepers in my area are slowly phasing out due to increase in regulations in our state.
Hope and pray that President Trump stops the FDA (or whichever federal agency is responsible) from mass-slaughtering chickens. That action alone will lower grocery prices and help limit the inflationary bump the new tariffs are causing.
Anyone notice that oil prices were $80/bl the week before Trump took office and today are down to $65/bl? This will also lower food prices across the board as well as inflation. I think the Administration’s goal is about $50 at this time.
Why is gas over 3$ a gallon?
It’s over $5/gallon in California. What are you complaining about? The prices will start to drop after existing supplies used up and replaced by new ones. “Drill baby drill” takes a little time after the Biden shutdown.
Around here gas prices have gone up, “Switch to the summer blends” excuse to gouge us.
About $55 per barrel is break even price for American shale fields. $50 per barrel would bankrupt our oil industry.
I have seen statements from Russia that price around 65 per barrel is where they like it.
Why do so many foriegn (Middle eastern) people own the gas stations through out the US. That makes me nervous. It can’t mean anything good.
They also own the hotels strategically placed along every major U.S. highway
They also own most of the hookah bars, vaping stores, and sell addictive substances to our rural populations — mostly children.
The adjustments to President Trumps tariffs will be lumpy and a rough ride as the global trade, commodity markets and foreign exchange markets adjust. There WILL be displacement. Buckle Up.
I am already seeing it in the M&A market where transactions in the hopper are being put on hold given higher expected input costs due to imports as part of the supply chain. This makes the business less profitable in the short term and is causing business buyers to want to adjust purchase prices down.
Lower prices to consumers for Ag, means less revenue to farmers. This needs to be offset somewhere to maintain Farm profitability. Hopefully its energy costs including fertilizer.
No longer will a ‘grown in MX ‘ orange be cheaper than one that was CA grown, sold in a CA grocery store.
Nearly the first thing that God told Adam to do was to till the ground. We’ve been farmers as long as we’ve been. Without them, we cease to exist.
Big Ag is so filthy-dirty you can’t even say how dirty without using foul language. They own both political parties and own the bureaucracies that pretend to “regulate” them. We have stuff like E10 fuel and high-fructose corn syrup as a result. Big Ag has been the benefactor of 100’s of billions of dollars as a result of bad regulatory policy that it bought and paid for.
Every time someone goes after Big Ag for what it is (a corrupt cartel), they immediately run to the arms of the small family farmer and say these polices are bad for American farmers. They use small farmers as human shields like terrorists use hospitals and churches. It’s a scam. Big Ag has been a major force in destroying small to medium sized family farming.
I hope Trump blows-up their honey-hole in DC.
Well said.
Now if Trump can find a way to stop the killing of chickens panic he inherited , maybe there will actually be some chickens around to lay eggs!
If they would just stop the senseless killing of chickens, it would take care of the egg price problem!! Surely Trump knows this
Canada has much lower Egg prices. Canada does not have a bad problem with Bird Flu.
The reason is they have small farms. Usually 25000 birds or less.
A single American Egg factory has millions of birds and can produce 4 million eggs a day. Disease outbreaks affect the whole countries egg supply.
If there is a disease outbreak in Canada with small farms. it is simply dealt with on a local level. So an outbreak does not affect the whole nation. Neighboring farms can make up for disruptions in supplies if one farm is infected.
If Trump really wants to do something about the Egg, and many other food supply issues. He needs to bring back, support, and grow the small family farm. Our government must stop subsidizing Big AG.
Food production needs to be brought back to a local and regional level. Big Ag needs to plowed under.
Tariffs may work for a large nearly self-sufficient state like the USA. Makers and builders are motivated to relocate inside that great state, but I’m thinking the US is exceptional and that tariffs generally diminish nations. A higher price on incoming goods is similar to saying less trust in the source. A low trust society is backwards and expensive.
Higher price on incoming goods? How does that work when their currencies go down?
Farmers, “Make it grow baby grow!”
Justine Castreaux is actively trying to make things worse since he’s fired anyway.
And because he’s a Commie.
“The worse the better.”–Lenin
In parallel … something has to be done to break the cycle of Fuel Prices be stuck in a do-loop of +/- 25 cents a gallon around a fixed price … from the Gas Stations I have seen … the fixed number seems to be $2.60/gallon REGULAR gas as a bench mark.
The price of REGULAR GAS swung $2.40 to $2.90 just these past few days.
“Drill Baby Drill” nor will a pipeline are going to fix the arbitrage happening at the pump. The Puppet Masters who own the fuel have figured out a sweet spot price that makes money and helps keep inflation going UP.
Need something to re-introduce competition at the pump.
No tariffs on fuel maybe??
Looking back at old pictures of giant cabbages and corn, how did they do that? Can we grow things like we did in the past? If not, why not? What technology was lost? Why?