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re: Louisiana requests federal assistance to help struggling crawfish farmers
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:29 pm to SWLA92
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:29 pm to SWLA92
Most banks won’t touch any individual who wants to borrow to start any business. I agree that running a farm is a tough business, I just don’t think they deserve special treatment. In fact, I don’t believe that any business should be subsidized. It’s the whole problem with our economy though; you have to take the handout if your competitors do. We’re all equally complicit in our demise.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 8:34 pm
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Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:36 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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Louisiana requests federal assistance to help struggling crawfish farmers
Hmm. Surely no one will take this money. Surely.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:37 pm to CrawDude
Does one of them
Operate out of Cottonport?
Operate out of Cottonport?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:37 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Why doesn't the govt just help all businesses?
That's essentially what happened during covid. Where do you think all this inflation came from?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:40 pm to tgrbaitn08
I’m not talking about fishing in the basin. I’m talking about farm raised crawfish. You can’t just crawfish on the farm. You have to grow rice also.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:42 pm to Semper Gumby
I agree with you but during Covid every business got helped out. And we are sending tens of millions of dollars overseas. If they don’t keep the money in the states. Foreign countries will just continue to collect it. Atleast if farmers get subsidized this year the money will go straight back into the local economies.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:50 pm to SWLA92
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I’m not talking about fishing in the basin. I’m talking about farm raised crawfish. You can’t just crawfish on the farm. You have to grow rice also.
Anyone that catches crawfish and sells with a license will be included in this federal assistance plan, doesn’t matter where you fish. Farm or spillway/basin.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:53 pm to TDsngumbo
Conservative principles my baw.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:59 pm to tgrbaitn08
I know but that’s not what I’m talking about. Deltaland was saying someone will pick up the crawfish farmland that goes idle, that’s what I was referring to.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:00 pm to SWLA92
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Atleast if farmers get subsidized this year the money will go straight back into the local economies.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:02 pm to Sao
Can’t help stupid if that’s what they decide to do.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:08 pm to SWLA92
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Calling it a loss this year will end the crawfish industry as you know it. You think prices are bad now? They’ll be a fraction of crawfish producers survive if this season continues like it is.
Rice farmers are not going out of business over this.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:13 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:You won’t make dick frick for money unless you know your shite either. Lots of swinging dicks thought it was that easy my way on Belle River. It ain’t a money making scheme like most think
Anyone can buy traps, a boat and fish in the spillway/ basin.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:14 pm to SWLA92
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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
Ultimately money will solve that problem. If the volume is back next year there will be people there to make the money.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:16 pm to loogaroo
Crawfish is what pays the bills. You can’t just make it farming rice. That’s why everyone has crawfish with their rice operation. So yeah Rice farmers will go out of business if this continues.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:16 pm to slackster
Correct, if there’s money to be made someone will do it
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:18 pm to SWLA92
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The thing y’all don’t seem to understand is, if producers don’t survive this season they won’t be another season for some of them. Then they’ll be less crawfish on the market next season.
bullshite. All the rice farmers in SWLA are fighting over farms. Acreage will increase because the good farmers will be able to pick up these farms.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:24 pm to loogaroo
Correct they have been in the past and up til this year. But they’ll be some farms that lose farmers this year because they will not make it. That’s a fact. I’ve even heard some landowners will not let their farmers have crawfish next year on their land because it’s been to expensive from a pumping standpoint, if the landowner pays the pumping.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:32 pm to SWLA92
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But they’ll be some farms that lose farmers this year because they will not make it. That’s a fact
And those farms will be farmed and crawfished by another farmer. That's a fact. Rice ground is selling for over 3k per acre with people hunting for more land. I know three guys right now that will buy anything that comes available and can buy it all.
It sucks for the old small family famers, but they are being bought out. This will only speed that up and increase the crawfish acreage in the future. One bad crawfish year isn't going to break these corporate farms and farmers.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:37 pm to loogaroo
Yeah I’m sure but selling of land is scarce right now. Old family farms aren’t being bought out unless they just want to sell for the heck of it. These farms are paid off. The crawfish acres right now has peaked imo. They won’t get above 350,000 acres in the future.
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