Comments on: Farmer Sentiment Is at Its Lowest Point in Three Years https://modernfarmer.com/2019/06/farmer-sentiment-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-three-years/ Farm. Food. Life. Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:43:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Christopher Allen https://modernfarmer.com/2019/06/farmer-sentiment-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-three-years/#comment-23468 Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:20:34 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=67688#comment-23468 I believe there are numerous solutions to these problems. Just a little looking will show tons of success stories of farmers who are breaking free of the commodity markets. Farmers are notoriously stubbor and resistant to change, therefor my first suggestion would be to get them thinking in a new paradigm (outside of the box). I know that switching things up is hard to do, but something has to give!
No matter what stories are making the headlines, people still need to eat. People will always need to eat! There is no shortage of customers. The difficulty is in connecting the producer to the consumer. Currently this is a long connection with a lot of siphoning throughout. Shorten the link between producer and consumer, then suddenly a lot of what is happening in the headlines becomes less relevant!

]]> By: Bruce Turner https://modernfarmer.com/2019/06/farmer-sentiment-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-three-years/#comment-23355 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:58:28 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=67688#comment-23355 In reply to Karen Igou.

I agree with your first and second sentences and the rest is only partially acceptable if we buy American products, and the taxpayer doesn’t have the burden of govt. handouts and government policy that our govt. forces on us. Yes I am a Trump policy supporter and I never want America to slide back into Zero growth and all the bad things that go with it. By the way, the Ag industry prospered during Obama’s rein of “Bad for America” policy of which the taxpayer paid dearly for.
I own a small machining company and was very fortunate to have survived the Obama experiment, while he gave huge coffers of money away to bad policy for bad reasons.

]]> By: Bruce Turner https://modernfarmer.com/2019/06/farmer-sentiment-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-three-years/#comment-23342 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:28:35 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=67688#comment-23342 Farmers are just about the only business that has greatly depended on the taxpayer to supplement their business with legislation that is flavorful to the AG industry, and fuel supplementing is only one and it is going to increase from 10% to 15% this year and soy bean production will be on the rise if Trumps policies hold up after the 2020 election. Stop your bitching to the taxpayers and start adapting to the market as most industries do.

]]> By: Karen Igou https://modernfarmer.com/2019/06/farmer-sentiment-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-three-years/#comment-23338 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 03:21:02 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=67688#comment-23338 Lets encourage these farmers to change how they do things. Let’s subsidize switching to regenerative agriculutre…cover crops, bio diversity, 4 season growing, community supported agriculture. Plant fruit and nut orchards. Lets take care of our farmers and show them that we are willing to support them with our dollars and community as they truly are what sustains our very lives.

]]> By: Elizabeth Medgyesy https://modernfarmer.com/2019/06/farmer-sentiment-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-three-years/#comment-23306 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:51:44 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=67688#comment-23306 Dump Trump!

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