This is why I hate farming.
Anons be like we love our farmers
FedGov be like we love our farmers
First thing FedGov does when they argue with China, we'll slap tariffs on food stuffs! That won't bother anybody.
The fuck it doesn't. Farmers don't have any choice in their markets.
Farmers don't get to say I'll sell to you for this price. They get what they get from the 'global commodity markets, and when you tell the largest population on earth that the american farmer isn't going to sell to you, then that instantly creates less demand for food. What am i supposed to do with a billion extra bushels of food that will rot in a bin cause I'm not allowed to sell it to China.
Tell you what, how about we stop selling finincial shit to China. Make them pay 25% more for a dollar than anyone else has to. You fucks might figure it out. Who am i kidding, you already know, that's why it's not done.
If I had my way, and you could get 2 farmers to agree on anything, I'd tell us all to sit on our asses fishing for a couple years. When the rest of the nation starts going hungery and having to pay 10x what they do now for less and less, maybe they'd give a damn for a change.
This is a rerun of the 70's and 80's. Ag tariffs on food to china. Been there, done that, it wrecked us last time. Why do we have to do this again?