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re: Louisiana requests federal assistance to help struggling crawfish farmers
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:31 am to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:31 am to LegendInMyMind
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That's the joke here, but none of you frickers ever have a word to say when prices are down.....ever.
It takes a couple of words.
Supply and demand.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:46 am to bad93ex
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MIC needs it more
Great, now the Feds are going to want to send all the crawfish to Zelensky.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:48 am to NorthshoreTiger76
Can't make this up. Landry wants federal aid for crawfish farmers but declined federal aid for poor children. Unreal.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:04 am to ChestRockwell
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3 knuckleheads in Pierre Part. Been saying that over and over again.
I posted a pic of one of them’s cold storage facility. It’s in Eunice off 190.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:09 am to NorthshoreTiger76
Crawfish farmer should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They must be lazy or on drugs. This state doesn’t not need ebt assistance to feed kids either.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:11 am to danilo
I think most of them are good ole baws trying to scratch out a living.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:42 am to SWLA92
quote:Damn baw you are quite the victim. You poor bastard forced to farm for a living. Grow some fricking balls.
The older farmers are getting out the business there’s just not enough young farmers anymore. No young person wants the headache of farming. You can’t just wake up one day and decide to farm. Yeah some farmers might absorb neighboring farms that go idle but there will still be a void.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:03 am to NorthshoreTiger76
6 crawfish farmers liked this post
Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:29 am to White Bear
Not playing the victim, just having an informative discussion explaining the crawfish industry. I never once said we deserve the subsidies that are being talked about.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:13 am to Deactived
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20% but how much more are you charging for those crawfish?
That’s what so many here don’t understand .. farmers don’t “charge” for anything. Market sets the price. Unless they’re selling to individual people buying crawfish, they can’t set the price.
Same with rice, soybeans, cane, etc
Everyone here including me loves food on their table .. quit complaining about the people who grow it I promise you that you don’t want them to quit. And no it’s not as easy as “well someone will take it over”. Y’all come live a day in the life of the business side of farming.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:18 am to SWLA92
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They’ll be a fraction of crawfish producers survive if this season continues like it is.
Don’t most of them just farm crawfish in fields that used to sit idle when it wasn’t rice season?
Even if that’s not the case, what do you mean that most won’t “survive”?
What are they going to do? Go work at WalMart? The land will still be there with money to made from it. Are you saying they’ll be foreclosed on or something?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:20 am to lsupride87
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How many people turned away stimulus checks? Didn’t hear of the govt getting too many sent back
The government created the economic catastrophe that was the justification for the stimulus checks. That’s not a typical handout.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:20 am to NorthshoreTiger76
Crawfish farmers wives crying in their $90K Tahoe on the way to little Billy’s travel ball World Series in Orlando.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:23 am to SWLA92
Can you tell me again where you farm and how much?
We’re in Vermilion with 2400 acres, plant right at half each year. Very small bit is family land with the rest being rented.
We’re in Vermilion with 2400 acres, plant right at half each year. Very small bit is family land with the rest being rented.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:24 am to NorthshoreTiger76
Lolololol corrupt idiots
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:30 am to WB504
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Declines the federal EBT money but wants assistance for crawfish farmers. Wild
Good on declining the EBT. Maybe he won't get the federal assistance.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:33 am to kywildcatfanone
They could ask for help for all the homeowners that paid for Insurance that got screwed.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:45 am to Semper Gumby
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Free markets are the gold standard of economies.
Show me a guy who has no comprehension of history....
Free markets are great when they're running well. Free markets also have the ability to crash the entire global economy for a decade if not properly regulated, resulting in world hunger, work shortages, currency destabilization, homelessness, etc. Imagine what would've happened in '08 if we just had to let giant banks fail with all depositor money lost...you think that's a good thing?
This is the problem with some of y'all....it's all platitudes and tough talk without any regard for nuance or historical context. Pull out the thesaurus, talk tough, and wait for the upvotes to come rolling in. Get curious! Read!
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:48 am to NorthshoreTiger76
So, if they get this assistance, will they reduce their prices to something comparable to a normal year? Or are the bastards just gonna pocket that free money. Serious question..But I know the answer.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 9:02 am to Honest Tune
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I posted a pic of one of them’s cold storage facility. It’s in Eunice off 190.
Riceland Crawfish - Dexter Guillory. Dexter passed away in Dec 2020 (Covid) and I assume his 2 children & wife run the operation. It’s large - I asked him at one time a decade or so ago if he thought he was the largest volume crawfish wholesaler in the state - he didn’t know if he was the largest but he felt he was in the top 3.
Dexter was one that started as small crawfish farmer as a side-line business/income, his full time job was a produce manager at a grocery store (as I recall), and over several decades built one hell of a crawfish business.
This post was edited on 2/22/24 at 9:43 am
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