"Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies were up 12 percent in the Midwest from July of 2018 to June of 2019; they’re up 50 percent in the Northwest."
"The nation lost more than 100,000 farms between 2011 and 2018; 12,000 of those between 2017 and 2018 alone."https://t.co/VDJUSb4UtK
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) December 7, 2019
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No better way to control the people than to control the food supply.
That’s it.
And to kill the idea of liberty. Few Americans experience more freedom than a family farmer.
Nailed it on the first reply.
Did we loose them or did they become a mega farm? Don’t forget, most farmers are up to their butt holes in debt. They have been habituated to price supports since 1895. This puts the food supply in the hands of government and banks or large corporations. I don’t have a crystal ball but, what do you think will happen when we loose this most important asset at the most basic level? Just asking. The family farm needs to be protected from hostile take over.
Old timer – you beat me to it. How does any business, including farms, generally go broke? Debt.
Small farmers get into debt, and mortgage their farms. Then when they cannot meet the nut, they go broke.
The vast majority of people running small businesses, and that includes farmers, have zero business running small businesses. The vast majority of those businesses fail as a result.
There are not many HSFs around, with the smarts to be able to run a small business.
Where I live, for a farmer to be able to run a viable and profitable farm, they need an unencumbered 3000+ acres. Preferably a lot more.
So what happens? Joe Bloggs wants to be a farmer and buys 1000 acres, mortgaged to the hilt. At hugely inflated costs. And then tries to learn to run a farm (ie small business) on the fly, pay the mortgage, and then goes broke.
1000 acres in these parts would be some millions. If I were to buy a business for $5 million, I would want nearly $2 million ebit a year on that. These 1000 acres farms might be returning, maybe, a couple hundred thousand gross, not net. Uh-oh. It is doable, if there is no debt.
Debt is what is killing them off.
They have been doing this a little at a time since F.D.R.’s time. First, as Obama went after the Tea Party folk Roosevelt went after the Grange which had been the base of the Gop since its inception. His and all subsequent farm policy was oriented toward collectivization ,much like the Soviets but using the market rather than killing the American equivalent of the Kulaks. Now they are doing everything possible to kill the independent and self reliant spirit on the land, for the same reasons the Soviets had (i.e. the inability to tolerate the free and independent citizen.
As with all things it touches, the government has ruined the farming industry for individuals. It is all about the mega corporate farmers who buy influence from politicians through contributions.
My buddy farmer says insurance killed the small farmer. Crop insurance allowed operators to hedge, moderate risk and grow without fear. Those that watched, folded.
I grew up in a small farming community where a man could make a decent living with a 1/2 section of land. My sister still lives there and says there are only about 4 families who control most of the farms in the county.
Farm subsidy program became political spoils.
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
You’d think the socialists were trying to kill off small businesses, small farmers, and Mom and Pop grocery stores on purpose because being outright stupid isn’t really a reason, right?
Along with the Chapter 12s there’s been a corresponding rise in suicides, but the blood on the scarecrow is just a coincidence. I’m from Indiana and this is just another one of those things that riles me up.
All small businesses are being destroyed. It’s not just farmers.
Consolidation of power and control. Same with ever sector of society. Even insurance companies would rather deal with the employer than all the employees when it comes to selling health insurance. A bit of human nature, combined with the violence and force of government.
Decentralization of power, food production, medicine, and everything else, is the ONLY thing that will restore the human race to safety and security.
Because they can.
Bankers have been fucking farmers out of their land at least since …. well… forever.
It is not just farmers it is any small business, look at the last 50 years, the destruction of family business has been pervasive, it is writ large all across America.
Change starts with each of us.
Mister, where do you got those shoes?
My husband makes fun of my boxes of warm boots in multiple sizes. But, seriously…have any of you tried walking any real distance in crappy boots?
Toilet paper and good boots. That is what I hoard.
Easy….control the food control the sheep. Like all sectors vital of an economy there are less than 10 major players, oil, grocery stores, tech, tv, etc etc. they want 5-7 major farms so they can control them. Force gmo and cause more health issues. A sick republic is a passive republic not one to be feared.
Many intentional communities around the world are going off the grid and growing their own food. Some have become 100% independent. This is closer to true freedom to me. True freedom ultimately is an internal quality of the soul.
Because the rules are set by the government. And mega farms, amf food companies are the ones that put people in government to regulate farm issues.
With mega farms and economy of scale prices go down, so they benefit 100 food stamp receivers (that vote for Dems) or big corporations (that fund Reps).
Just sell and go to a big city to receive food stamps. It’s a good deal.
Nobody’s been given more free shit than the American farmer. Small farmers destroyed themselves… we gotta’ grow, man.
If you mean “the American farmer” as in “Big Agriculture” then I agree, the segment of the bureaucracy draws a disproportionate amount of public subsidy compared to the number of people whose hands control the money.
Realize what you think of as a small farmer now is probably farming hundreds if not thousands of acres. My grandfather and his brother purchased four sections totalling 160 acres and that was enough to support both theirs and my own family until the 1970s, when farm price controls through federal subsidy and crop insurance was established to help the small farmer.
It drove all the subsidizable land into the hands of the wealthy farmers, eager to get their hands on that guaranteed money.
It sucks to be the child of an honest man.
No, I mean the America farmer. They sucked on the collective government tit of subsidies,low interest loans, buy backs and pay to plant programs and most lived the life of the genteel farmer, while Hosea and Willy Lee did all the shit work. They eat their own seed corn.
I grew up and live in welfare farm country. I have many small acreage neighbors that collect ten times more in subsidies than the average American makes, so cut the bullshit with me. I ain’t from New Yawk City.
Here’s a database of the welfare ho’s suckling on Uncle Sam’s cock.
The database tracks $391 billion in farm subsidies from commodity, crop insurance, disaster programs and conservation payments paid between 1995 and 2019‡
https://farm.ewg.org/
“It sucks to be the child of an honest man.”
There’s no greater gift.
Maybe a ball and chain made of pure gold?
Dude – a section is 640 acres
In 1913, Amerika became like a Monopoly game in which three players compete against the Banker who has unlimited printed money. The game has progressed to the point where the Banker owns everything on the board and the only Players left kiss the Bankers ass and do what he says.
It’s easier to control a few large farms than many small farms. It’s a policy the government started in the 1960’s.