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re: How are farmers doing right now?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:17 pm to Topwater Trout
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:17 pm to Topwater Trout
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If their cost are up they should sell higher to offset the costs.
They don’t get to name their price when they show up at the grain elevator.
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Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:18 pm to charminultra
Trump will bail them out again. They've already had a ton of debt forgiven.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:20 pm to The Baker
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Every farmer I know is loaded.
Loaded with debt…
…ask me how I know.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:20 pm to charminultra
Cotton and rice are really bad. If you are farming those, going to be really rough. Really bad.
Corn and beans are bad but not as bad as the above.
Peanuts and pecans are really good this year.
Haven't been looking in to cane but it appears they are expecting a good harvest but the market has been up and down.
Corn and beans are bad but not as bad as the above.
Peanuts and pecans are really good this year.
Haven't been looking in to cane but it appears they are expecting a good harvest but the market has been up and down.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:22 pm to TT9
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Trump will bail them out again.
Just the other day he committed $15B to farmer relief.
So just to clear this up, we lost our biggest soy bean customer via a self-inflicted tariff/trade war and are now going to pay farmers $15B of taxpayer money to make it up to them. Just want to be sure everyone with their "I voted for this" bullshite understands exactly what is going on here.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:23 pm to charminultra
Well, Donald is preparing to give them billions of dollars to help them stay afloat. So, there's that.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:25 pm to Topwater Trout
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If their cost are up they should sell higher to offset the costs.
When you deal in commodities, it doesn't really work like that. It is important to be good at timing markets and hedging.
Been pleading with farmers for years to work on hedging and do a better job of marketing. That is why they get in trouble. A lot of farmers could have hedged against the cotton and rice prices but a lot of them just don't believe in it and will tell you, nah, I always do better doing it my way. They say that until they are in trouble. Same with marketing, they always think prices are going to go higher and then they get bit in the arse when its too late.
Love farmers, but they can be hard headed as hell.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:26 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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mmmmmbeeer
Idiot
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:28 pm to wareaglepete
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Been pleading with farmers for years to work on hedging and do a better job of marketing. That is why they get in trouble. A lot of farmers could have hedged against the cotton and rice prices but a lot of them just don't believe in it and will tell you, nah, I always do better doing it my way. They say that until they are in trouble. Same with marketing, they always think prices are going to go higher and then they get bit in the arse when its too late.
Diversify to another crop no one will buy because they have no interest in trading with us due to tariffs?
Beef prices are through the roof because of this dumb trade shite, too. Brazilian beef is no longer making it to the US.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:31 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Diversify to another crop no one will buy because they have no interest in trading with us due to tariffs?
No, hedging like investment instruments. Set caps and floors on prices, stuff like that.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:34 pm to charminultra
They’re picking cotton and cutting beans today, Cletus.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:38 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Beef prices are through the roof because of this dumb trade shite, too. Brazilian beef is no longer making it to the US.
Nope. You don't know what you are talking about.
Your TDS is not letting you see straight. I will never understand why yall hate Trump so much. It's a sickness.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:41 pm to charminultra
They are doing bad. Don't worry though the government will bail them out with tax payer money. Just had to bail out Argentina first.
The art of the deal sons!
The art of the deal sons!
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:46 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Diversify to another crop no one will buy because they have no interest in trading with us due to tariffs?
You at least have a point on the soybean issue.
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Beef prices are through the roof because of this dumb trade shite, too. Brazilian beef is no longer making it to the US.
You need to do more studying on this one.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:47 pm to BillysIsland
Beef prices are very high now and likely to stay high until the herd is rebuilt and/or we start importing beef from Brazil and Argentina.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:50 pm to Allthatfades
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Cows are through the roof right now.
Through a cotton house roof?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:54 pm to wareaglepete
quote:You make it sound like hedging and fwd selling has no risk. A proverbial win-win.
When you deal in commodities, it doesn't really work like that. It is important to be good at timing markets and hedging. Been pleading with farmers for years to work on hedging and do a better job of marketing. That is why they get in trouble. A lot of farmers could have hedged against the cotton and rice prices but a lot of them just don't believe in it and will tell you, nah, I always do better doing it my way. They say that until they are in trouble. Same with marketing, they always think prices are going to go higher and then they get bit in the arse when it’s too late. Love farmers, but they can be hard headed as hell.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:55 pm to loogaroo
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I will never understand why yall hate Trump so much. It's a sickness.
If hating politicians is an illness, then 90% of the world suffers from it, and the percentage of carriers is an order of magnitude greater on TD.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 3:58 pm to LegendInMyMind
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You at least have a point on the soybean issue.
No he doesn't.
The world had record production and China is saturated with soybeans. They couldn't buy more if they wanted to. Tariffs have little, if anything to do with it. It's a global market and our farmers chose the wrong crop this cycle.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:02 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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Beef prices are very high now and likely to stay high until the herd is rebuilt and/or we start importing beef from Brazil and Argentina.
The droughts caused our largest ranchers to liquidate herds. It will cycle back in a few years. Beef is a 7 year cycle. Everyone with at 40 acres is trying to start a herd right now. We've seen this before.
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