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Arkansas farmers want bailouts
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:12 am
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:12 am
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On Tuesday, hundreds of farmers from across the state gathered before representatives to voice their concerns and ask for help amid terrible markets, higher input costs, and tariffs. Many emphasized the direness of the situation, with one farmer saying, "I have never been as worried as I am now about whether or not my kids and grandkids will be able to carry on."
Another farmer called tariffs the "ice cream on the cake of a perfect storm." They continued, “In the short term, they have no choice but to mail us a check. I don’t know a farmer that likes the check program. Nobody wants to take the taxpayer dollars, but nobody wants to go broke; nobody wants to lose everything. Long term, we have to have options, markets, and places to sell our product.”
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Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:27 am to totospumpernickel
I wish I had a check program to fall back on when times were tough.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:29 am to totospumpernickel
Maybe teh government can buy their farms?
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:29 am to totospumpernickel
I’d rather bail out farmers than banks, the auto industry, airlines, etc.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:29 am to Riverside
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I wish I had a check program to fall back on when times were tough.
Farming is damn near guaranteed income.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:29 am to totospumpernickel
Wish someone had taken a picture of the vehicles in the parking lot…
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:31 am to Riverside
Then buy/rent land, equipment, take out a yearly million plus crop loan, plant and hope God provides you weather or pay Entergy for the juice to make it rain to make a good crop, compete with non US producers whose countries do not have an EPA to regulate crop protection chemicals, and break even if you are lucky due to low commodity prices.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:32 am to tyler925
why? even though those industries employ much more people?
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:32 am to totospumpernickel
They always throw the family legacy bullshite around. Your kids/grandkids are not entitled to keep the farm! What is this? Dowtan Abbey where the family entitled to the land in perpetuity?
Also the narrative about farmers being good people. That’s BS too. I know come cut throat farmers. Just as bad as used car salesman.
Also the narrative about farmers being good people. That’s BS too. I know come cut throat farmers. Just as bad as used car salesman.
This post was edited on 9/7/25 at 11:36 am
Posted on 9/7/25 at 11:35 am to UptownJoeBrown
We don’t want to take the government checks, but we’re still taking them.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:03 pm to totospumpernickel
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:04 pm to totospumpernickel
It’s not Trump’s fault India dumped a shitload of rice on the world market.
This could have happened at any time the last twenty years or more.
We can’t compete with how cheap the rest of the world can grow rice and we are a drop in the bucket in global production. Rice farmers in Louisiana would have folded years ago if not for crawfish.
This could have happened at any time the last twenty years or more.
We can’t compete with how cheap the rest of the world can grow rice and we are a drop in the bucket in global production. Rice farmers in Louisiana would have folded years ago if not for crawfish.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:11 pm to tyler925
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I’d rather bail out farmers than banks, the auto industry, airlines, etc.
I’d rather bail out none of them. Gotta start somewhere. Might as well with them.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:20 pm to loogaroo
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It’s not Trump’s fault India dumped a shitload of rice on the world market.
The soybean farmers are the ones that are b*tching.
This post was edited on 9/7/25 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:32 pm to totospumpernickel
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"I have never been as worried as I am now about whether or not my kids and grandkids will be able to carry on."
They're not meant to carry on. Your family farm is seen as the enemy. It will soon be rolled over and consumed by the industrial farm machine that we have put at the center of our country's future, consolidating the food supply into the hands of the few.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:41 pm to totospumpernickel
Farming insurance and the government is a way of life for a lot of farmers.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:50 pm to tyler925
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I’d rather bail out farmers than banks, the auto industry, airlines, etc
Your “etc.” is doing a lot of work. I don’t know of a single industry that doesn’t live off the government. There is no way out and it will destroy the US.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:53 pm to TigerAllNightLong
Seems like a great thread to mention ethanol
Posted on 9/7/25 at 12:55 pm to totospumpernickel
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farmers want bailouts
I’m surprised the crawfish industry hasn’t gone full bore with this yet. I guess they’re happy to just keep raising prices.
Posted on 9/7/25 at 1:00 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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I’m surprised the crawfish industry hasn’t gone full bore with this yet
They have. Landry asked the Fed for a bailout last year. Kennedy has sponsored a bill, called the CRAWDAD Act (Crawfish Recovery Assistance from Weather Disasters and Droughts Act) specifically for that purpose.
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