re: Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules

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Listen noob, we have one rule around here

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If you’re gonna call him out, better do something about it.

The EU is one of the worst things to happen to Europe since the Plague.

Shutting down farms in favor of housing in the name of “sustainability”?

If you’re going to frick us, at least lie better.


Farming to feed people is a lot more fricking sustainable than destroying the farmland to put people there.

One is a gain of food, one is a permanent loss of food.

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Yeah get rid of farms that have likely been in families for generations to solve a non-existent “crisis”.

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I wonder what these farmers going to do for work now or are they expected to go on the govt dime. Are there homes being purchased too or just the farm land?

These lefties are definitely playing for keeps with the diabolical plans.

Wetland Reserve Program has absolutely destroyed the catfish industry by making entry into the business unaffordable for new farmers. Prior to it, when you had economic downturn and some farmers went out of business you could buy up catfish farms for 5-800 dollars an acre in the early 2000s. That created healthy turnover and easy access to affordable land. Then WRP comes along paying 2500 an acre and you get to keep the land, so farmers just did that and used the money to pay off their farm loans and leased the now WRP land to some big duck hunting club. So instead of being able to buy a farm for 800, now the base price was 2500 an acre and farms that went out of business were usually in terrible shape end needed many ponds to be reworked which was another 1500-3k in dirt work per acre. So now you’re at 500k just to get the land and get it in decent shape not including equipment and operation costs for 18 months until you get your first crop of fish to market for only 100 acres. Which is a very small small, most delta catfish farms are 800+ acres. So in the early 2000s you could buy a small farm for the cost of a new truck today and that made it easy to get a loan to operate.

Govt fricks up everything

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I predict the government to start confiscating cattle ranches within 25 years.

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Who needs cows when we can eat bugs and make milk from almonds.

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something, some mechanism to the effect that makes raising cattle unprofitable.

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This is how our govt usually works they won’t outright confiscate it. They either use our greed against us with generous programs to take land out of production and wait for economic downturn to put people in a bind where they have no choice and their bank forces them to, or they make it unprofitable through regulation and act like it’s the free market at work and idiots gobble it up

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What is enabling these purchases? Is it gov subsidies? Doesn't seem like these solar farms would provide much ROI.

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What sucks is it could be stopped today by refusing to sell to them but Americans are too greedy to stand on principles and it will be our ultimate demise

Just don’t sell your land no matter what they offer. Only sell to people willing to farm on it

Your ribeye just doubled in price....

Screww these treehuggers!

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Shutting down farms in favor of housing in the name of “sustainability”?

If you’re going to frick us, at least lie better.


Farming to feed people is a lot more fricking sustainable than destroying the farmland to put people there.

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IIRC the majority of the "condemned farm land" will be used for reclamation projects and carbon sequestering. Which will not help the food shortage but will make liberals feel good.