Wishnitwas1998

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For highly perishable crops it’s a challenge. Margins are low to begin with and with costs going higher on all fronts it makes it difficult to plan. If we lose markets we’ll have a glut of product needing to find a home and quickly. In those situations it causes prices to crash. That puts growers in quite the predicament. Sell at a partial loss, or much smaller margin (which will crack double digits in a good market) and lessening your profits, or in a worst case scenario not selling it and eating all of the losses because the market is flooded to begin with. As a result the food supply becomes unstable in the following years because they’ve lost money and they can’t just eat the losses. So they plant less acreage.

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And what about annual equipment payments that you have no revenue to help pay? What about property taxes or land payments that are due regardless? If you are a farmer who rents ground you either have to pay the rent without any revenue or let the ground go and not have it to farm the next year

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Idk what farmers they are talking to but steers are going more per lb than they have in as long as I can remember.

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As I'm sure you know totally different area of farming

And for what it's worth cattle prices being high is great for now but not sure what happens in 3 years when cattle farmers have cashed in by selling all their heifers and they either have to reinvest at whatever the price may be at that time or they have to get out of the cattle business

I see a lot of comments in this thread regarding farming that aren't representative of all, or even most, farmers across the country.

Let me be clear I support was President Trump is trying to accomplish and do but the fact remains that these actions can and will make things incredibly difficult on farmers. A sector that has already had a rough 10 years or so anyways

Firstly, any example that involves somebody other than grain farmers and to some extent cotton farmers isn't a fitting example. We export a tremendous amount of grain and cotton. Not so much fruit, sugar cane, and other commodities at least not relatively speaking so they aren't as impacted by the tariff situation

I also several examples of large wealthy farmers. Those farmers are not the ones that will be "hurt" by this. Sure their farms won't be as profitable but they won't be at risk of becoming insolvent. The farmers this will hurt are your small farmers. The farmers who are always hurt and constantly evermore squeezed out of the market

I'll give my personal example

I grew up with a family farm that my father sold out of in 2014. We were still making money as a grain farming operation but the land value had gotten to be so exorbitant that it simply just didn't make sense to continue to take that kind of risk when we could sell out for a pretty large sum and invest the money into safer areas so that's what he did

Fast forward to about 2018 and I had done well enough in other areas that I had a little extra capital, the constant itch I've always had to be involved with Ag, and a friend who long story short had an opportunity for me to invest a relatively small amount into a relatively very small grain and cotton operation and so I did

We use VERY old equipment in an effort to keep costs down and have operated on a very tight budget. Things have not been easy at all. This operation has been on the edge of insolvency since we started it basically and that's even with the help of the decent amount of liquid capital i was able to inject into it on the front end to avoid the costs of borrowing. We have still had to borrow but my capital probably reduced the principal amount by half

This operation was teetering on insolvency BEFORE any of the new tariff efforts so needless to so say this likely will produce and even more difficult challenge

Almost nobody will read this long post and I don't want to pretend that difficulty in remaining solvent is some issue that's exclusive to grain farming. Everyone struggles and as I've said in other threads lately i don't know the solution.

I don't want even more government subsidies for the Ag sector

I don't want Trump to stop trying to enforce fairness in our trade economy

I also don't want even more small farms to fail

And when people to act like the farming industry is all full of shite to be claiming there are issues I have to take the time to object

I wish I knew a solution

Seems like Abdul Sami Ackbar made the wrong choice :dunno:

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So like legit is Florida’s Finest going to be here tonight?

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I'll be surprised but one can always hope I suppose

I know I'm sick but am I losing my mind? The trannny and the terrorist are back in the ring talking again?

A hard worker? Does punting a ball really count as "work"?

I'm genuinely asking, I'm ignorant on the subject as I like women and therefore never punted

28 years? I had no idea I've been waiting that long for JR to come back and kick his wormy arse off the air

Btw I may have been a bit distracted, did our beloved Coach Gable ever recover from the devastating long COVID or is he still suffering?

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I'm still trying to get over the decision to not make Hogan the press secretary for Trump.

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A damn shame Warrior is no longer with us and can't fill that spot