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Don't worry, JD Vance will buy your farm after you go broke.
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"Best I can do is a spit in your face"
Does anybody remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement President Obama entered into, that would have opened the Asian markets to American farm products? The agreement that the Republicans ripped up when Trump started his first term?
But it had trans in the name. They had to get rid of it.
That was one of the good things Mango Mussolini did for the rest of the world. The original TPP was an attempt to export the US copyright regime. After Trump pulled the US out, the rest ripped out the copyright shit the corporate scum wanted and went ahead.
Arrogant dickheads.
China has reached the point it can afford to say no.
They are pretending it is still the 90s or very early 2000s when China was still making 'cheap junk'. Chinese stuff is very high quality now, dare I say superior to western stuff from the past.
During Trump's last term when he fucked over soybean growers, at least locally in my rural community, the soybeans didn't go to waste. They didn't rot in the fields or in storage. However, farmers ended up having to sell for way less than normal, and basically they didn't make any profit (many even saw losses) that year.
This issue with this year, again I can only speak to my area, is that by the time Trump was elected, most people would have already placed their orders for seed and the specific chemicals/supplies they needed for soy, so they're on the hook for it. They would have been facing the decision to take a sure loss (ex: if they didn't plant the soy they've already purchased and/or if they had to go procure some other crop seed and related supplies) OR they could go ahead as planned with the soy and hope for the best.
Where I live, most farmers aren't "soy farmers", they're just farmers. They rotate crops from year to year on a pretty rigid schedule, so one year it's soy, next might be corn, grains following that, then cover crop / hay. So, they better hope the weather holds up next year for whatever crop they were planning because I doubt a lot of them will be able to tolerate multiple years of essentially no profit.
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