TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS LETTING SMALL FARMS GO OUT OF BUSINESS, SAYS FARMERS UNION

[Skidmore]

https://www.newsweek.com/sonny-perdue-wisconsin-trump-tariffs-china-small-farms-1464087?fbclid=IwAR3TWRn0rwd10t4w-FaPNEqsnr28SBLPjMWX4bT4vEWNSU-9l2V9p3b6vYY

When the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue came to speak at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin last week, farmers hit hard by tariffs and low prices were looking for a message of hope that the White House administration had their backs.

Instead, Perdue's view that smaller producers were likely to go out of business at the expense of bigger producers left many who had travelled far and wide to attend the meeting feeling despondent.

"Now what we see, obviously, is economies of scale having happened in America—big get bigger and small go out," Perdue said on October 1.

"It's very difficult on economies of scale with the capital needs and all the environmental regulations and everything else today to survive milking 40, 50, 60 or even 100 cows, and that's what we've seen," Perdue added, according to The Associated Press.

[dewsgirl]

1. Yet they still support him. Half the country is brainwashed.

It's beyond scary.

[farmbo]

10. Farmers Union members will strongly oppose Trump

They are the progressive farm organization, strong in the Upper Midwest and the eastern corn belt.
It’s the National Farm Bureau, strong in Dixie and the solid red states, that will vote Republican at all costs.

[dewsgirl]

11. Of course.

[gratuitous]

2. Okay, you've recognized that you're getting whipped

And you're right on the ragged edge of figuring out who's been holding the whip all the time. Just a little farther, folks. You can do it.

[TeamPooka]

5. that last little part is the hardest for them

[lunasun]

3. Wisconsin farmers will tell themselves this was Obama & regulations that did it

Will vote red -farm or no farm

[lpbk2713]

4. They keep poking themselves in the eye with a hot nail.

I don't know what it takes to convince them.

[Skidmore]

6. Perhaps the city slickers

could deign get to rural America and pretend like the care about the people who live the there rather than engaging in endless mocking and insults. Dems could help us keep between presidential races.

Perhaps the coastal urban areas can note that our children go to them. When the seas drown the cities, they will come looking for us.

[TheRealNorth]

7. Farm land for cheap

They are doing to farmers what 2008 did to homeowners that fell behind on their payments..

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Bingo, bingo bingo.

disaster capitalism, once again, even if you have to first create the disaster.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Anybody who is surprised has not been paying attention...

The whole thing was obviously a ploy to drive more family farms out of business and forcing them to sell out to Big Ag.

[LeftInTX]

9. They will still vote for him

Rural Texas voted to keep their goons even though: Schools are closing, hospitals and doctors are gone from counties (Not lots of farming where I live...some ranching, but mostly just land with some cattle. The money making part went away decades ago)

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Another MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Who says Trump is not accomplishing anything? He destroys everything.