• Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This statement shows that you don’t understand much about modern, mechanical farming.

    It’s a lot of expensive equipment specialized for picking & packing the crop you are harvesting. One of my vendor’s combines are $500k to start & it only picks cotton.

    This makes it very difficult & expensive to just change crops on a whim. Not to mention, you can only grow what your soil & climate will actually grow. Soybeans are wonderful for nitrogen fixation so it’s pretty common to grow between other crops.

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      8 hours ago

      Exactly, here in Nebraska (Blue Dot Representing!) the farmers alternate soy beans and corn so the soil stays fertile. The leave the corn stalks from one season and over plant soy the next, then the following season till in the soy plant remains and start again.

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      17 hours ago

      If these welfare queens can’t make anything people want then no matter - there’s a million people lined up ready to take their job.

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        9 hours ago

        Turning hateful terms back on the people who originated them doesn’t protect innocent bystanders from that hate. Please stop.

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      18 hours ago

      shitler only likes winners and hates losers. those shitler supporting farmers need to stop bitching and get back to work. “America” can’t win if these assholes keep losing the game for their divine shitler.

      after all, they voted for this.

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      19 hours ago

      Well obviously the tariffs will make all that equipment he would need cheaper. That’s how tariffs work, right? I am assured that Trump is playing 4D chess, so that has to be the way…

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        9 hours ago

        As far as I can tell via a quick search, John Deere combines are mostly made in the USA. I doubt they will be getting any cheaper.