It is turning out to be a convenient way for the administration to ramp up the rate at which farms can be bought at low prices by industrial farm corporations. Some people would call that efficient business. I call it heartless.
There are several reasons this is happening.
It is very hard way to earn a living, demanding incredibly hard work each day, so many do not want to do it.
The flooding in some areas and drought in others that is exacerbated by climate change altering air current and weather patterns as well as putting more energy (heat) into bodies of air and water which fuels worse storms, each certainly play a part (and on that score so does undermining regulations that could help slow the problems).
The trade war has removed and reduced offshore markets (and a hefty chunk of those purchases have been moved to other nations such as more of the high protein wheat contracts going now to Alberta and various second and third world nations being contracted to supply more of PRC’s produce which is one of the reasons (along with trying genocide and more) that the current leader of Brazil called for burning down more of the Amazon (which gets back to the last paragraph)
And Trump is hitting corn farmers hard through the extreme reduction in the use of ethanol by refiners that his appointees keep worsening (happy news for petroleum producers, but very hard on farmers). (On that score ethanol is more polluting than sources like Texas crude (when fracking is not involved) but ethanol is far less polluting than the tar sands origin petroleum which now makes up a very high portion of the gas origin in the U.S.)
It is turning out to be a convenient way for the administration to ramp up the rate at which farms can be bought at low prices by industrial farm corporations. Some people would call that efficient business. I call it heartless.
There are several reasons this is happening.
It is very hard way to earn a living, demanding incredibly hard work each day, so many do not want to do it.
The flooding in some areas and drought in others that is exacerbated by climate change altering air current and weather patterns as well as putting more energy (heat) into bodies of air and water which fuels worse storms, each certainly play a part (and on that score so does undermining regulations that could help slow the problems).
The trade war has removed and reduced offshore markets (and a hefty chunk of those purchases have been moved to other nations such as more of the high protein wheat contracts going now to Alberta and various second and third world nations being contracted to supply more of PRC’s produce which is one of the reasons (along with trying genocide and more) that the current leader of Brazil called for burning down more of the Amazon (which gets back to the last paragraph)
And Trump is hitting corn farmers hard through the extreme reduction in the use of ethanol by refiners that his appointees keep worsening (happy news for petroleum producers, but very hard on farmers). (On that score ethanol is more polluting than sources like Texas crude (when fracking is not involved) but ethanol is far less polluting than the tar sands origin petroleum which now makes up a very high portion of the gas origin in the U.S.)