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They’re Coming For The Farmers Next: Kulak 2.0

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

The number of errors in this report exceeds the number of facts.

She’s not talking about farms, but CAFO’s- which is like condemning Amazon practices by calling them a Mom & Pop store.

The reason they use the words farms and farmers is because that’s what they are targeting, not the Industrial Ag producers.

One more time for those in the cheap seats- grass fed beef cattle produce NO methane.

The only people farmers ever killed were occupation troops of a tyrannical government.

Air Pollution from U.S. Farms Linked to 17,900 Deaths a Year, Says New Study

May 12, 2021

Using new air-quality tracking technology, a benchmark study has been able to link increased mortality with proximity to livestock farms.

https://weather.com/science/environment/video/air-pollution-from-us-farms-linked-to-17900-deaths-a-year-says-new-study

Get Off My Property!

Guest Post by John Stossel

Get Off My Property!

Before dawn, dozens of union activists invaded a strawberry farm, shouting through bullhorns. This frightened workers and infuriated the farm’s owner, Mike Fahner, who thought that in America, owning property means you have a right to control access to that property — your home is your castle, and all that.

Not in California, where politicians allow union organizers to raid farms.

“If I didn’t allow them, I’m the one going to jail,” says an outraged Fahner in my new video. “That is asinine.”

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“We Can’t Give Our Product Away” – Farmers Toss Thousands Of Acres Of Fruits, Veggies As Sales Plummet

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Via ZeroHedge

As some misguided liberals complain about fruits “left rotting on the trees” because Trump’s immigration crackdown has left no undocumented migrants to pick the vegetables (a demonstrably false assumption), the Associated Press has offered an explanation for this phenomenon that also illustrates how disruptions in the businesses like the hospitality and food-service industry work their way through the supply chain, ultimately sticking farmers in the American Farm Belt with fields of vegetables that they can’t sell, or even donate as local food pantries are now full-up with donations from restaurants.

The AP started its story in Palmetto, Fla. a city in Manatee County on the Gulf Coast, where a farmer had dumped piles of zucchini and other fresh vegetables to rot.

As the AP reported, thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers who had grown the crops to sell to restaurants or other hospitality-industry buyers like theme parks and schools have been left on the hook for the crops.

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We’re From The Government And We’re Here To Help You

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Via The Toronto Sun

BELLEVILLE, Ont. — Protesters have vowed to continue their fight to save Frank Meyers’ ancestral farm even as demolition crews prepare to tear it down.

A 220-acre parcel of land south of the CN tracks on Meyers Creek Road in Quinte West in eastern Ontario was expropriated by the federal government in August 2012. It will be part of a 900-acre training facility for Joint Task Force 2, just north of CFB Trenton.

The farm has been in the Meyers family for more than 200 years.

While construction crews were preparing to demolish farm buildings Monday, Frank Meyers, 85, was moving fence rails, hay bales and clearing out buildings.

Protesters watched from the CN tracks and stayed overnight to keep an eye on the property.

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MAN OF THE PEOPLE

Farmers remain silent at auction so young man can buy his family farm back

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

David’s family’s 80 acres of land was sold to a distant relative and the family’s property was gone. What they had spent decades building vanished in a split-second bank interaction.

Throughout his life, David dreamed of somehow getting back the family’s land and rebuild their business.

Several years after losing the family land, it suddenly appeared on auction. David and his father decided they would do their best to collect whatever modest means they had to try to get it back, reports goodnewsnetwork.com.

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A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

Via MSN

Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.

The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs. So were the benefits. But two years ago, the 32-year-old Whitehurst — who graduated from a liberal arts college and grew up in the Chicago suburbs — abandoned Washington for this three-acre farm in Upper Marlboro, Md.

She joined a growing movement of highly educated, ex-urban, first-time farmers who are capitalizing on booming consumer demand for local and sustainable foods and who, experts say, could have a broad impact on the food system.

For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Census of Agriculture. Sixty-nine percent of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees — significantly higher than the general population.

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