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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

To be fair, killing farming in the USA wasn't a difficult task. Most countries importing any American food products have had major restrictions on them for years due to safety and hygiene concerns. The EU, for instance, pretty much only imported some soy and grain, because anything else doesn't meet our quality standards. There only had to be a single minor inconvenience here to end the imports from the USA.

And in all honesty - wonderful news for Europeans. I don't think any of us will miss American products. Personally I'll happily pay a tiny bit more for soy from Brazil or China.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

What a bunch of welfare queens. They should have planted crops people want to buy.

[–] eve@evecodes.com 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Americans are learning the hard way that elections have consequences, and I’m loving it. Sadly, most still won’t learn. I said it before and I’ll continue to say it that Trump, Elon and their lackies are anarchists. They are destroying the government because they hate government (because it gets in their way) and they’re not going to put any of it back. He’ll be gone and we’ll have some broken, ghetto, incompetent government that can’t put the pieces back together and it’s what we’ll be stuck with for generations to come while other countries progress.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 16 hours ago

Yea, elon (and presumably many other super rich) want(s) cyberpunk ultra capitalism
no rules, just money…

Trump is just a corrupt puppet making it possible somehow

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Americans are learning the hard way that elections have consequences, and I’m loving it.

You think? I tend to doubt it. Seeing as these are the same lessons since Reagan and they've only gotten more popular. They don't know why they hate government. That's the real lesson they won't learn.

It's the lesson the rest of the world will need to learn super, super quickly, too. It's about media. And therein is the clue as to why no one will learn it without a big effort.

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If only people could have seen this coming, especially the farmers who dealt with the same shit last time they elected Trump.

Sucks to suck.

If only they knew it was their own votes that bent them over the barrel.

Common clay and all that. Morons.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I think ‘morons’, while technically accurate is missing the nuance that conservative media deserts are where these voters live. They’re not on Lemmy, they’re not even on reddit. They’re on facebook and they watch Fox News. Their local paper is written by and for others who watch Fox News. That’s “the world” afatk.

The Left has zero plan to combat this, and even less money and interest in doing so.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Trump killed America, with massive help from American citizens and criminals.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

And now JD Vance’s Acretrader can come buy up all the land for cheap and sell it to foreign interests!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When this shitshow is over It would be nice if we could reconstruct our farming practices to focus more small local and sustainable farming instead of corporate conglomerates that damage our environment and wipe out biodiversity.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol might as well ask for the wholesale dismantling of all capitalism...

(Yes please)

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Europe has better farming practices

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 85 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!

-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well… you know, if you have a farm, there’s options other than soy beans.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

You know how much specialized farming equipment costs? That's like you owning a plumbing business and the government then screwing over your business somehow and someone going, well, you can always just start a electrician business. Like, sure you have some basic tools that might crossover, but it's an entirely different field that you know nothing about. There's significant risk as you know very little about that new crop, you may not have connections for distribution, you might not be scaled correctly to handle the nutrient or water needs. It requires extensive planning and if you fuck up one thing in that crop (i.e. you now have a weird blight or mildew or destructive animal you never planned for), you could be properly fucked.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

In that case it might have been smart to listen to the person they were going to vote for and to believe what he was promising to do.

But voting for Mr "I'm gonna kill farming in the USA" and then complaining that he killed farming in the USA is kinda weak.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can't seriously believe they knew anything about what he was going to do. Despite it being published and mocked and criticized and the topic of conversation for months.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, who could have known that he seriously meant what he was saying for years.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

The risk of hyperspecialization. Of course it's devastating, if your entire farm is tailored to that one crop.

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

Specialization is a specific kind of business risk that these farms accepted years ago.

You can lower your production cost, but at the risk of having all of your eggs in one basket. Crop diversification requires more equipment, more expertise, and potentially lower yields, but it reduces exposure to problems facing a single crop.

These farmers took that risk knowing that last time this happed Trump bailed them out. They had every reason to think it would happen again.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Temporary" my ass. They are going to beg for those evil socialistic handouts for the coming years. Simply because it is unlikely to get better.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Well yeah, farm subsidies aren’t new.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Canada, Russia, Belarus and China are the major players in potash mining and production. The US doesn't mine or produce any in a substantial number. The US has huge import tariffs on China, and can't currently buy from either Russia or Belarus.

Canada needs to put a 50-70% export tariff on potash. That would crush US farming.

If Trump wants to play, let's burn them to the ground. Here is your 51st state you cunt.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is why farmers shouldn't monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn't care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.

They don't? Afaik soy is an off season crop to balance nitrogen(?) in the ground. But not being able to sell your harvest 50% of the time is still pretty bad.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hey there woah ... if you say something bad about djt, he'll dump on you from an F35 so EVERYTHING is PERFECT no matter what you say.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Couldn't even ask AI to recreate that video with correct mask placement lol. Trump is a huge fucking loser.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm going to end up emigrating from this fucking country primarily so I can stop bailing out dumbfucks.

This is absurd.

We're going to bail out "bootstrap" assholes after they were warned they were going to kill their own livelihoods. Fuck that clown shit.

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[–] starrysonics@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

You know which country? Argentina. Who are we aiding with currency transfers and trade deals for meat? AREGENTINA

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm hoping this means low soy-food prices. And other beans. Beans are the best.

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[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I hope we all like soy beans because that is going to be the only affordable thing in the grocery store.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago

Soy is great, you can make some really good-tasting, high-protein food with it for very cheap. But I'm afraid there won't be a lot of cheap soy in grocery stores, instead those farmers will just go bankrupt.

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 55 points 2 days ago

Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First... Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.

kind regards, The rest of the world

[–] AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

That is the result of a hyper individualist society, USA is literally the cancer of the world and now it's hurting itself

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 145 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Big thanks from Brasil. Our soy exports are up like 30%

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (9 children)
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