When this shitshow is over It would be nice if we could reconstruct our farming practices to focus more small local and sustainable farming instead of corporate conglomerates that damage our environment and wipe out biodiversity.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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Lol might as well ask for the wholesale dismantling of all capitalism...
(Yes please)
"Temporary" my ass. They are going to beg for those evil socialistic handouts for the coming years. Simply because it is unlikely to get better.
Well yeah, farm subsidies aren’t new.
Canada, Russia, Belarus and China are the major players in potash mining and production. The US doesn't mine or produce any in a substantial number. The US has huge import tariffs on China, and can't currently buy from either Russia or Belarus.
Canada needs to put a 50-70% export tariff on potash. That would crush US farming.
If Trump wants to play, let's burn them to the ground. Here is your 51st state you cunt.
This is idiotic. You are literally suggesting Canada follows Trump example and try to use tariffs to hurt another country.
Canadian potash producers have no reason to be punished with tariffs.
Tariffs damage your own country. Not the enemy. This is literally what you're complaining about.
Tariffs damage your own country. Not the enemy.
Read what I said. I said EXPORT tariffs. These are taxed at the border, by Canada, to the buyer exporting - IE; the farmers and supply chain in the US. These aren't like Trump's import tariffs but they have the same effect to Americans.
The only effect this would have on Canada is MAYBE some reduced sales, but US farmers don't have a choice with this product. They literally can't buy it from anywhere else in the numbers they need.
And yes, the design would be to cause even further damage to US farming because of Trump. It's a huge power play Canada has. They want to reduce our added tax on potash? They need to drop or reduce tariffs on their end.
Its not universally true that tariffs harm your own country.
If the US really is dependent on a specific thing from a specific country then that country can absolutely harm the US by applying a tariff to it.
You can have sensible tariffs that do the intended job of encouraging a domestic market, but you need to have both supply and demand available domestically.
For example, Canada has an import tariff on milk and other dairy because we produce and consume our own dairy products. If some giant US milk conglomerate could start imprint on the cheap it would legitimately harm the Canadian economy.
Cool story bro. Read the conversation next time. The topic was potash tariffs.
You know which country? Argentina. Who are we aiding with currency transfers and trade deals for meat? AREGENTINA
You've heard of government cheese? Wait until you hear about government rotten tofu
Mmmmm government seitan.
I'm hoping this means low soy-food prices. And other beans. Beans are the best.
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Hey there woah ... if you say something bad about djt, he'll dump on you from an F35 so EVERYTHING is PERFECT no matter what you say.
Actually, shit is a great fertilizer. If he had dumped it on the farm fields that need it, it would have been a better video.
This is why farmers shouldn't monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn't care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.
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I'm going to end up emigrating from this fucking country primarily so I can stop bailing out dumbfucks.
This is absurd.
We're going to bail out "bootstrap" assholes after they were warned they were going to kill their own livelihoods. Fuck that clown shit.
But where are you gonna go? Most countries don't want more refugees
Australia here.
I've been saying all along that we'd happily exchange some fuckwits for some lefty seppos.
Chuck another shrimp on the barbie mate strewth.
The US government has been doing this forever. For example, meat and dairy farmers are heavily subsidized. They couldn't survive if they weren't subsidized.
For example, meat and dairy farmers are heavily subsidized.
They're subsidized to regulate productivity. You don't want large fluctuations in the supply of staple goods, so you offer a price floor that's cost of production + vig to guarantee a certain volume of retail surplus.
If you want to get extra fancy, you turn the excess into a good that you can preserve for long periods (excess milk turned into Government Cheese) that you can then store in the event of a supply contraction or dole out abroad for goodwill as material aid.
The only real caveat is that you need the agricultural property owned by actual working people, rather than some enormous private conglomerate or trust. The goal is to guarantee a steady supply of his that still offers gainful employment, not to create a massive shareholder give away for folks who will still fuck with the supply chain
I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!
-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!
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