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angrychair

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10. Plus Congress added more stress
Sat May 16, 2026, 07:18 PM
Saturday

On farmers by passing a bill to allow 15% ethanol in gas all year around.
This will be a significant turn of events as the pressure increases on corn farmers to grow more fuel grade corn (called field corn)
(I think it's important to mention here that corn for ethanol, field corn, is very different than sweet corn and the vast majority of corn grown is already fuel/feed grade because it's more profitable)

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80% of all farm counties voted for Trump. Irish_Dem Saturday #1
Yup. Chickens coming home to roost. Joinfortmill Saturday #2
Chickens voting for Col Sanders. Irish_Dem Saturday #3
Who now appears to be Chinese. ananda Saturday #6
Half Chinese half Russian Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #40
Yep. Great - more corporate megafarms on the horizon. Good job, Republican voters. Beartracks Yesterday #32
GOP also got rid of their cheap farm labor. Irish_Dem Yesterday #33
Republicans suffer from the myopic idea that everything isn't connected. n/t Beartracks 20 hrs ago #36
Unfortunately they're taking us down with them. yardwork 20 hrs ago #38
Yes the farmers and other MAGAS screwed all of us. Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #39
Oh man, if only somebody would have warned them that voting for Trump would be bad for them... RockRaven Saturday #4
None of them figured it out popsdenver Saturday #13
But "Her laugh" would've been so much worse durablend Saturday #20
Oh, and Hillary's emails! Justice matters. 16 hrs ago #41
Learned nothing from the first Trump go around. paleotn Saturday #24
Last fall the head guy from the soybean farmers association was making the rounds RockRaven Saturday #27
Funny you should say "Jesus Christ!" -- He seems to be the reason they think they need to keep voting Republican. Beartracks 20 hrs ago #37
Will they wear their MAGA hats to their foreclosures? dem4decades Saturday #5
Thanks to Trump Bluestocking Saturday #7
Gee, and what party was in charge during the 1980's? Bluestocking Saturday #8
Read my mind!! BumRushDaShow Saturday #11
So the party of "Greed is Good" is eating your young? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING?? Maru Kitteh Saturday #9
Plus Congress added more stress angrychair Saturday #10
Not sure that popsdenver Saturday #15
You are correct Miguelito Loveless Saturday #17
I went well over popsdenver Saturday #18
Free face-eating leopards to Trump voters! sakabatou Saturday #12
Small farms will be bought up by big agra business and you will PAY THRU THE NOSE !!! for groceries Stargazer99 Saturday #14
Most voted for the Child Rapist Miguelito Loveless Saturday #16
Vote harder for Republicans next time durablend Saturday #19
Won't Farmers for Trump help them? live love laugh Saturday #21
They can sell their farms to China JI7 Saturday #22
That's Xi's idea not fooled Yesterday #29
Why it matters? Icanthinkformyself Saturday #23
Northeast Iowa was 57 percent for repub congress JT45242 Saturday #25
It's very interesting out here UpInArms Saturday #26
Prices of... well... *everything*... next year will be wild. RockRaven Yesterday #28
Well that's a shame isn't it fujiyamasan Yesterday #30
This message was self-deleted by its author bmichaelh Yesterday #31
It's not just that they were warned. SamuelAdams 23 hrs ago #34
Watch supreme asshat Sen Roger Marshall in Kansas. Voted for everything to hurt farmers Bengus81 22 hrs ago #35
Farmers Cirsium 14 hrs ago #42
"Acres don't vote. People do." BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago #43
There we go Cirsium 10 hrs ago #44
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