Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
“We’re Barely Making It”: Furious Farmer Goes Viral Explaining Why Food Prices “Are Going To Go Up”
Last week we noted how US farmer sentiment plummeted in May – as producers have become anxious about their farm’s financial health.
According to the monthly survey by Purdue University/CME Group, The rapid rise in production costs and uncertainty regarding the direction of input prices have been important contributors to the drop in sentiment. About 44 percent of farmers, according to the monthly survey, cited input costs as their biggest concern for the coming year, according to the Epoch Times.
In fact, 60% of farmers predict farm input prices to be at least 30% higher this year compared to 2021.
To that end, Ohio farmer Holly Weilnau took to TikTok two weeks ago in a now-viral video to explain how farmers are suffering under inflated input costs, which is going to send the price of food much higher than it is right now.
“There are things that we have to buy,” she sais, adding “There’s something we have to buy that two years ago cost us $24, last year was about $46, this year it is costing us $96.”
“Please understand, food prices are going to go up,” she continues. “You wanna act like it’s the farmers’ fault—it is not the farmers’ fault. We are barely making it to grow the stuff so you guys are able to get it in August, September, October.”
“Guys, this is not going away. Stop sticking your head in the sand and thinking ‘oh, it’s going to be okay’ — it’s not going to fuckin’ be okay.”
In a Saturday video, Weilnau relayed a story about another farmer who was unable to lock in diesel pricing for this fall, and was told that it was because of uncertainty amid rapidly rising diesel costs.
“That alone, guys—to fill the tractors and the equipment needed to get the product out of the field—is going to be astronomically bad all the way around,” she said, adding: “So understand, people are like, ‘Oh, plan ahead’—we’re trying. They’re not letting us.”
Oh – and at least as of this writing, Twitter considered Weilnau’s videos “potentially sensitive content.”
This is far from the first farmer to offer a dire warning. Three weeks ago John Boyd Jr., the President of the National Black Farmers Association, said “We are in a crisis right now as far as the food chain goes with the farmer in this country,” adding “We’re going to see a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices.”
In his forty-year career as a farmer, Boyd said he never imagined he would be “paying $5.63 for a gallon of diesel fuel, $900 a ton for fertilizer, and all-time high prices for soybean seeds.” All of the prices he mentioned are at record highs, pressuring farmers’ margins.
He said the American people need to wake up to the crisis in the farming industry, adding, “farming isn’t Republican or Democratic, it’s food, the land is neutral … this is the time the American people need to support the American farmer and put pressure on the Biden administration to put things in place to help farmers.”
He mentioned that banks need to provide emergency funding to farmers to get their crops in the ground. Out-of-control inflation has left some farmers unable to plant because of soaring costs.
Boyd said, “We only have a short window of opportunity to give farmers funding.”
He stated the worst-case scenario is “a lot of shortages” of food that could materialize later this year.
Prepare accordingly.
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Never thought I would become a “farmer”, but here I am. I recently started working another acre or so of land that we used to mow and call a lawn. Tilled out most of the sod layer and have been fertilizing it. Next year we plan to use it for a variety of different staples. I started out years ago with a small little garden. Now between gardens and orchards it has become almost a second job.
Me and my family don’t plan to starve if it does get as bad as “they” say.
Winchester, That’s my plan too, except this year I mulched it all and let it lie fallow. I figure I’ll need to garden vigorously for the foreseeable future–better let it rest a year. But I’m working harder than ever concentrating on perennials, berries, trees, pruning, fencing, arboring, and propagating everything I can. Looks like next year will be the reason I get to harvest all that “experience” that I’ve planted for decades.
The National Black Farmers Association???? Why in the fuck do black farmers need a separate association?
The National Black Farmers Association dates back to the mid 1800s when segregation was the order of the day. The farmers alliances (both black and white) were formed to combat price gouging by the railroads.
John Boyd is the face of the so called, almost slaves but with a nice large pick-up truck,struggling black farmer. I would take anything he says with a grain of salt. He shows up sort of like that Hogg boy does for an anti- gun rally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/08/reparations-black-farmers-stimulus/
Recently saw field after field of wheat in OK that will not produce enough to pay the cost of diesel to run the combine. This is a result of the drought they are experiencing. A perfect storm is setting up, so be prepared.
Don’t they still have to cut it to get crop insurance?
No. All they have to do is plant it. All of the farmers that I visited with were “dusting” in their cotton so the insurance would be effective. they wasted a lot of fuel and seed just to get paid for their crop not coming in.
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I think this may get very ugly. Most Americans have only enough food for a week. When Wal-Mart has no food and the drive through is closed, violence is only an empty bag away.
I got my fields planted with black eye & speckled peas because they don’t need fertilizer and a lot of rain but this year so far there isn’t enough rain for beans; where are all those above average storms the NWS said we’d have this year. I’m afraid all the heat energy is being stored up in the Gulf, Caribbean, and Tropic Atlantic waters for a couple duzzy hurricanes. Hope they are 5s and one hits commie hole WDC and the other New Orleans (America rebuilt that dump and then they tore down the historic monuments). I know TPTB elite Oligarchs just hate this song: “A Country Boy Can Survive”. Y’all Christian Westerners must have affordable water always and Hoover Dam is headed for Dead Pool (no water through the dam, all turbines fail) in about a year (ref arachnoid.com Lake Mead water-levels chart), and y’all can’t drink solar & wind powered electricity , so move to the East Mts before it’s too late. Fleeing to the Rocky Mts won’t get it. Vaya con Dios. ..PS: Saw that some feed lot lost 3,000 cattle to the heat ($3,000,000). That happens when Chicago and NYC ZOG billionaires run things. This po’boy’s livestock have shade in the Summer & shelter in the Winter and I don’t ever lose any animals to the weather. Suck it up Z.
Same here.
BTW, not sure what the price is like where you are based on that calculation, but livestock prices have doubled in New England in the last year. If they can be had at all.
Small timers know what’s coming. The big guys are still firmly attached to Uncle Sugar’s teat.
One facet of the fuckery faucets another.
Lots of commercial farmers have been tapping commy-compense subsidies for long time. Even including “getting paid” not to farm.
Or bs like dirt cheap-sidized water for ignorans to pour into the sonoran desert for to grow econ rent dessert cotton, golf courses & swimming pools.
So… now that heroin’subsidy-subsistence existence is being “adulterated” with fentanyl? GTF outta here! Who ever coulda seen such shenanigans coming? Get Mellencamp on the phone – we need s’more farm(band)aid a singin & a carryin’ on (singing mostly boohooray for “our” side…).
If you join a rigged “game” & stay then do not ask for whom the t•rig•ger pulls, cuz it pulls for thee.
“Go big or git out” said old Rusty Butz.
Love that last sentence with the beautiful literary reference.
Sadly the farmer and rancher cannot pass on the input cost to the consumer because they play in the commodities market. The result will be bankrupt farmers and ranchers just like the 1980’s and shortages that will raise the consumer prices.
I don’t know why the media keeps saying different, but they do.