I did have a little sympathy for the farmers getting hosed, but trump's concentration camps have made me bitter.

Farmers helped put this monster in office so now they can feel some pain of their own.

However, Democratic farmers don't deserve a bit of what's happening to them but I don't know how to help them specifically.

suffer, too.

I have listened to years of stereotyping of Southerners on DU. Now it is farmers. The farm economy is basic to this country. If it fails, we will all suffer.

We have spent years trying to convert our neighbors to the Democratic Party. We will continue to do so, and to GOTV. We could use a bit of help, not condemnation.

Commodity farmers deal with fixed costs and a slim profit margin. That sort of cut in price pretty much took out the profitability of soybeans for this year.

I expect the one size fits all approach from our low information, pro Donnie O supporters but when people on forums like DU adapt the same approach it makes me very sad. I've read some research that suggests that some people are just hardwired to grow things. Some of us get the opportunity to farm, some have yards that are ablaze with foliage or apartment patios covered with containers of plants.

Point is that the "grow" gene is not political. It pops up in all manner of folk and it would be nice if those who paint all of us with a broad brush could accept that there are lots of progressive people who raise food for the nation.

Yeah, a little help and understanding would go a really long way right about now.

I worked for commodity brokers last century. Millions can be made from market fluctuations with little or no money down.

I SUSPECT INVESTMENT INSIDER TRADING, perhaps even on a global scale like the Saudi Wealth fund.

I SMELL RATS

More Soy Oil for the Bio Diesel blenders in Iowa?

Interesting to see this in Wisconsin were Soybeans have never been a successful cash crop on any large scale. Tried it and the unpredictable Growing Season of Wisconsin made us eat our lunch. Only decent Soils for Soy are in and around River Falls area.

Wheat, Corn, Soybeans, Soybean oil, Currencies, Metals. The Dollar is going up as investors flee the markets because of the Dotard's idiotic policies. A major correction, (a bear market, in my opinion) is upon us.

But do not expect food prices to fall. The commodity price has little to do with food costs. Some for sure. But so many high value items from grain elevator parts, tractor implements, packaging not to mention the raw materials to make them will cost more. So everything will become more expensive.

Sure, in 10 years or so we might be able to make these things for less, although doubtful. By then no one will have any capital to invest.

Remember the finance guys running trumps show are considered kwacks by almost all other economists.

But trump is doing just what Putin wants.

By 2019 he will pull us out of NATO.

We will never win these people over. Apparently his poll numbers are rising. Putting all these immigrant children in cages has massive appeal to his racist base. Besides, I am sure they will all still get their subsidies.

Peace

Of course, but not a lot of direct labor involved in huge fields with GPS combines. Meatpacking and other processing sure, but this state is deep red and I just don't see that changing any time soon.

Peace

Only help the non-Trumpanzees in the farm communities

please grow more fresh produce 'farmers' and DEMAND more from your middlemen wholesale buyers!


even at the "sale price" of 25 cents an ear for fresh sweet corn- middlemen still make a great profit off your 300 bushels an acre corn!

Has about as much to do with 300 bushels per acre field corn as it does with Wheat. From a farming perspective sweet corn is closer to strawberries than it is dent(field) corn.

Totally different crop.

And there is a finite limit to sweet corn demand. Hogs and cows have an unending appetite for field corn.

On my first trip to Germany I was briefly surprised at all the corn I saw growing as Germans just do not eat it. But of course, the love pork!

I’m gonna love it in September and October when grain elevators refuse to take the farmers crops.