'Never seen things this bad': Soy farmers fume as their crops rot in storage thanks to Trump's trade

[UCmeNdc]

wars!

U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem – where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers.

For Louisiana farmer Richard Fontenot and his neighbors, the solution was a costly one: Let the crops rot.



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/never-seen-things-bad-soy-farmers-fume-crops-rot-storage-thanks-trumps-trade-wars/#.W_VaSsF_fOs.twitter

[Cirque du So-What]

1. So much winning...

Had enough, tRump supporters? Sick of all teh win?

[malaise]

17. Ditto

He's theirs

[htuttle]

2. They could probably corner the tofu market if they wanted to

[Le Gaucher]

3. But they will continue voting Rs over Ds

[MissMillie]

29. I am amazed at how many people vote against their interests

they vote for the sound byte.

Here's hoping that 2016 makes people re-thing 2020.

[Hugin]

4. Most of them would vote for Old Yeller again tomorrow.

And keep on looking for Hillary's emails.

[brewens]

5. The most populous country in the world that couldn't exist without soy beans, and

Mr. Art of the Deal blows the market!

[Blue_true]

28. China and Japan invented the soy market. nt

[spanone]

6. yet they still support the magat

reap what you sow

[dalton99a]

7. For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind

[Botany]

19. +1

Trump loses them the biggest soy bean market in the world well
I hope they're happy w/their Trump votes now.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Louisiana_Presidential_Election_Results_2016.svg

[Blue_true]

31. They WILL vote for him again without thinking.

Look at what happened in Tennessee, with the Trump hugging Blackburn. Farmers there are getting killed, but they voted her in.

Cities and big surburbs have an international market from which to feed themselves. My sense is those markets will be used more frequently as the urban-rural divide in ideas and cultures continue to grow.

[luvtheGWN]

42. Canadian soybean exports to China

are up 3 times what they were last year.

Maybe this slightly lessens the impact of tariffs on our steel exports, because, you know, Canada (the US's largest trading partner and closest ally) is such a high security risk............

[Botany]

62. I just had a couple of cedar fences built and the cost of the wood is up 25% .... it comes from ...

... British Columbia.

[Mr. Quackers]

8. Saw a lot of that this harvest

corn went a-ok, but soybeans were in the ground well until the first frost.

[Freethinker65]

9. I bet some expected to double dip. Take the subsidies while also sell their crops (at reduced rates)

They voted for Trump who told them to sacrifice...but Trump softened the sacrifice a bit with taxpayer money. I have very little sympathy for these farmers.

[pazzyanne]

43. Actually, true to tRump business model, he SAID he was going to give farmers money.

To date a $839 million dollars of the $12 billion dollars has been paid out and another $6 billion is suppose to be added to that $12 billion in December. Want to bet whether or not that happens. Wonder who our farmers will handle that big lie?

[duforsure]

10. They trusted this con man

And now they'll be facing losing their farms. Just like auto workers did, just like the Carrier people did, and many others, and all losing out because he lied to them. Now the markets are crashing downward and will hurt his supporters the most, he'll once again offer up some excuses , and accuse others from what he and the gop have done to us , again. All while he and the gop have taken health care away from millions more, and they have given trillions to the wealthiest people in this country ,and corporations. Remember he claimed he'd have a better health care plan with lower premiums, and everyone covered, and claimed he'd have all the answers for making things better for everyone? Remember.

[hatrack]

11. Too bad, so sad, FUCK OFF

This. Is. What. You. Voted. For.

Wear it.

[FlyByNight]

55. +1

My thoughts precisely.

[Coventina]

12. Womp womp.

I'm sending these Trump-voting farmers my thoughts and prayers....

[Nonhlanhla]

13. The wages of white supremacy

Trump was voted in because a lot of whites can't handle the increasing diversity of the country, and they are paying the price. Worst part is, they will likely do it again, because racial anxieties trump common sense.

[sandensea]

47. +1

You see this in just about every country with eroding White majorities: right-wing backlash.

One that big business is all too happy to feed and exploit.

[TxVietVet]

14. These farmers love the orange-faced shit gibbon.

Deal with the loss, dumbasses.

[Hortensis]

15. I support tax relief only for farmers who did not vote for Trump.

Can't do it, of course, but I wish.

What's happening to many farmers is an unfolding tragedy, and I feel even for Trump voters, but there's far too much irresponsible, and frankly often malicious, indulgence in hyperpartisanship, and the more those indulging reap the consequences the more they're regret it and pull it back in.

[Blue_true]

35. I don't share your optimism.

Farm and rural areas in states was why we lost a couple seats in the Senate and didn't totally wipe republicans out in the House. Our gains came from cities and surburbs. Farmers saddled up and voted republican in large numbers, they will continue to do that. Are there liberal farmers? Yes, there are a few, but those people are also among the most innovative farmers.

Sorry, I don't feel sorry for farmers. When they start welcoming our democratic politicians to their towns and farms and listen to the alternatives that they offer, then I will be more open to caring about their issues.

[Hortensis]

41. I would mostly be with you pre-midterms, but those showed

significant weakening of support by conservatives for the Republican Party in the midwest and significant gains for us. We need more weakening of support for 2020.

For sure conservatives aren't going to have a personality change, but some have shown they will vote for candidates who promise to stop what the Republican leadership is up to and that number is likely to increase as disasters and scares of all types increase. If it had to happen, such a shame all stock market gains for the year weren't wiped out 3 weeks ago, then started climbing again after.

[lpbk2713]

16. I have to ask ...

How many of these farmers have Trump stickers on their tractors?


Damn that Obama.

[NewJeffCT]

18. I saw a few of them interviewed when the trade war initially started

they were worried that it was going to hurt them personally, but they still supported Trump because he was a "brilliant businessman" who knew what he was doing.

I wonder if they still feel that way?

[world wide wally]

45. The part they don't get about that is that they too could be "brilliant businessmen" if only

they didn't have a conscience and became sociopaths like their beloved leader.

[Squinch]

46. And if the definition of "brilliant businessman" included 7 bankruptcies.

Which it does not.

[Botany]

20. Just an idea how about working with N. Korea?

They get our excess grains and in return we return we get a deal and they
stop making nuclear weapons and missiles.

[dembotoz]

21. so people starve and we lets crops rot

now nobody wins

[Blue_true]

37. Don't agree.

The food market for cities and surburbs is an international market. Those places won't suffer as family and small business farmers go belly up. That trend had been happening under Bush, Obama reversed it and raised farm incomes across the board, but farmers responded by giving republicans landslides. Screw them, we will get fed while they vanish.

[Achilleaze]

22. republicans are systematically weakening America

deplorable

[Adrahil]

23. But it will be worth it when Trump gets rid of all the brown people!

Oops, I mean makes a "fair" trade deal.

Where's my subsidies!?

[Skidmore]

24. Amazing.

Mocking the farmers who fell for a con. Were they the only ones? Let's recall the miners and factory workers who also fell. And while we are at it, let's not forget who sit every Sunday being primed by haranguings from pulpits. And then there are those who are just greedy and want to get rich quick. Sprinkle all with racist and misogynist beliefs. On and on. Plenty of Trump patsies out there who have fallen for many promises.

[True Blue American]

49. I left a Church because

They sent me an email Sermon that compared Trump to Churchill on a Prayer chain.

But not before I emailed back and told them what I thought. The apology did not help.

[Blue_true]

25. Someone put a graphic on DU several days ago.

In rural, mostly farm states, democrats won ONE seat, lost about five, republicans were handily reelected in most. When rural people and farmers learn how to help themselves politically, then we should engage them, but they have to LISTEN instead of make Fox News driven assumptions.

[Takket]

40. I posted something along those lines...

Here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11452182

[Blue_true]

63. That was what I referred to. nt

[Cousin Dupree]

26. Thoughts and prayers. And don't forget to vote for Twitler if he ever makes another election

[Autumn]

27. You got just what you voted for others to get, and it bit your ass.

#sosad.

[CountAllVotes]

30. Crops rot

& 85,000 children have starved to death in Yemen.





DUMP tRUMP!

[jrthin]

32. So sad. nt

[C_U_L8R]

33. Stop voting for Republicans... geez.

Some people need to wise up. Republicans have never done good for this country.

[aggiesal]

58. I ask my conservative friends to name 1 program Republicans ...

have implemented that benefitted the country.
I can name 3 but they have a hard time coming up with a legitimate program.
Most say tax cuts.
I remind them that is not a program and the tax cuts hardly ever benefit the country.

The 3, I can come up with is
1) National Park System (Teddy Roosevelt)
2) Interstate Highway System (Dwight Eisenhower)
3) Environmental Protection Agency (Richard Nixon, although he only signed it because congress had a veto proof majority. He was against it, but was advised to sign the legislation and claim it.)

[BlueStater]

60. The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

That's literally the only positive thing I can think of that Republicans have done for this country in the last 30 goddamn years.

[TeamPooka]

34. Elections have consequences

[Racerdog1]

36. Welcome

To what most of the country has been dealing with since you right wing assholes helped put this orange piece of shit in office. Either get your heads out of your ass, or quit crying about losing your ass and farms.

[NoMoreRepugs]

38. They are the lost people - period.

Could, and many may, lose their farms and yet they will still support their white Messiah Trump.

[Itchinjim]

39. As an Iowan and grandson and nephew of farmers, let me just say this,

We tried to warn you.
Live with your choices you stupid fuckers.

[iDOcareDoyou]

44. Putin is the cause

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Putin is telling / encouraging Trump to pick a fight with China!

JUST THINK ABOUT IT.

Is it not in Russia's interest to have our stock market tumble, China turn to Russia for Soy Beans (as they have!), see to it that prices at Walmart sky-rocket, and HURT CHINA's economy . . . in one fell swoop??

Trump is playing into misguided Trade War actions and is overtly (even if he does not realize it) executing on Putin's plan to HURT BOTH THE US AND CHINA's economy!

Think about it.

[renate]

61. I've always assumed that the trade war was pulled out of trumps ass

He started it on a whim and refuses to back down because he can’t let himself look wrong.

But your version seems reasonable if Russia grows soybeans and produces other other stuff China wants. At the very least Putin wants chaos in, and between, other countries.

[Unca Jim]

48. Ummmm...

This is a tiny group. Suburban white people elected Donald Trump, not this tiny group. Even if these farmers realized their error and voted dem it would be a drop in the bucket.

[violetpastille]

57. Yes.

But it's more harmlessly cathartic to yell about "dumbass farmers" than it is to yell at one's friends, coworkers and neighbors.

[SCVDem]

50. Schadenfreude!

As ye sow, so shall ye reap!

At least the farmers will be well fed with their crop!

[marble falls]

51. And then they by and large voted for GOP candidates who facilitated cheetolini ...

we'll see how mad they really are when a bunch of their Senators become seriously challenged by good Democratic candidates in 2020.

In a lot of ways cheetolini is a temporary distraction. The real danger is the GOP.

[JDC]

52. Boot Straps!

[Stinky The Clown]

53. Thotsenprayers

Bite me, assholes.

[TheFarseer]

54. Speaking as a farm kid

Piling grain on the ground is far from unprecedented. Elevators doubling storage fees is a total dick move. It should be illegal like doubling gas prices on 9-11-01.

Midwesterners are a very “do your part” “ take one for the team” kind of people but they will get pissed off when they think they are getting screwed. Although I don’t put it past them to blame the wrong thing.

[Doreen]

56. I feel for the farmers childen.

I do not feel sorry for the farmers who voted him in. They deserve it.

[BlueStater]

59. Elections have consequences, right?

Perhaps making a deranged, crooked conman with zero political experience POTUS was a bad idea, you fucking dipshits.

[JI7]

64. they are getting what they voted for

[Cha]

65. trumputin wants to destroy America.. Hillary wanted

to help people in an even better America.

The Idiot Suckers chose the brainwashed LIES.