Republicans always claim to support American farmers, but mostly what they want to do with American farmers is deport them. Most American farmers aren’t white.
I’ve become a fan of the Farm to Taber youtube channel. She’s a farmer, and a Democrat and she has progressive take on a lot of farm issues.
This video gives her perspective on just who farmers are. In her view, mostly white and rich, and hence very conservative.
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The USDA says that 95% of US Producers are white.
Farm workers are probably a different story. Is that what you meant?
The USDA has a long history of bias and discrimination against Black farmers. The civil rights case Pigford v. Glickman was settled in 1999, requiring the USDA to pay a huge amount of money to Black farmers, but delaying tactics and other shenanigans prevented many Black farmers from getting their share. Acts by Congress in 2008 and 2010 provided more money to make up for past discrimination.
Earl Butz was Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford. He was blatantly racist, and some of his public remarks led to a public outcry that forced him to resign.
What’s happening to Black farmers under Trump is yet another example that racial bigotry has never gone away. It was just forced underground for a while.
That’s farm owners, not farmers. Farmers are the folks with calloused hands and dirty fingernails. You know, the people who actually farm.
Most farms —- using the official definition of farm —— are really small operations - more of a side hustle than a full time business. The official definition of “farm” is below.
Farm
A farm is defined as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year. Since the definition allows for farms to be included even if they did not have at least $1,000 in sales, but normally would have, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) developed a system for determining when a farm normally would have met the $1,000 sales requirement. These are called point farms. If a place does not have $1,000 in sales, a point system assigns dollar values for acres of various crops and head of various livestock species to estimate a normal level of sales. Point farms have less than $1,000 in sales but have points worth at least $1,000. Some may normally have much higher sales, but experience low sales in a particular year due to bad weather, disease, changes in marketing strategies, or other factors. For farms with production contracts, the value of the commodities produced is used, not the amount of the fees they receive. Changes are made to the point system over time. For example, beginning with the 1997 Census of Agriculture, operations receiving $1,000 or more in U.S. Government payments were counted as farms, even if they had no sales and otherwise lacked the potential to have $1,000 or more in sales. And for 2002, a farm that had a $500 point value and $500 in government payments was considered a farm. This would not have been true for the 1997 Census. The most recent Census of Agricultureis for 2022. More than 25 percent of farms have no sales in a typical year, and at least another 30 percent have positive sales of less than $10,000.
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The last line is important, over of half of all farms have sales (not profits, sales) of under 10K a year, and, out of those, more 25% don’t sell anything in a typical year.
You end up with a relatively small amount of really large industrial scale farming operations, and a whole lot of what are essentially “hobby farms”. The stereotypical “family farm”, a family owned operation that yields enough to support the farmer and his family and a handful of local employees…..isn’t incredibly common.
Well, here in central Kansas, that would describe virtually all of the farm operations. The farms are a lot bigger than they were in previous decades, but they’re still owned by a family, which might include a couple of generations.
It’s being reported that on January 10, 2025, ten days before Trump was to be inaugurated for the second time, British citizen Lucy Harrison argued with her Texan MAGA father about Trump.
“How would you feel if I was the woman being sexually assaulted by him?”
“It wouldn’t bother me much; I have two other daughters.”
And he shot and killed her, after drinking about half a liter of white wine.
And a grand jury declined to indict him.
Apparently murder is legal in Texas if it’s in the name of defending Trump.
It’s legal at the DC Capitol building as well.
Wait, how did I not hear about this? Prosper is right down the road from me (for certain definitions of right down and the road). I guess I do live under a rock.
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And I guess I shouldn’t be surprised he wasn’t indicted, but I totally am. I mean, the guy was drunk and handling a gun and someone was shot dead, that’s manslaughter even if you discount the fight earlier and his disgusting remark.
But apparently he said “oops, my bad” and that was good enough for law enforcement.
Technically, it was good enough for a grand jury. They tried to bring charges, but apparently they did it incompetently.
He pretty much said it - daughters are expendable.
Unless, of course, they’re incubating a precious unborn baby. Then you’ve gotta preserve the woman’s life at all costs until the fearfully and wonderfully made child emerges…at which point, to heck with both of ‘em.
Lil’ Marco. Piece of garbage. Spine of jello. A complete tool.
Is there any relevant content in that video? I can’t get it to play.
Walk out, handshake, and little Marco with the stupidest smile/grin I’ve ever seen.
Just Marco sheeping into support for a pro-Putin dictator. Following President Demeno’s example as Putin’s marionette.
Politician accused of ‘waterboarding’ daughter as punishment for not cleaning room.
I don’t think anyone is going to accuse this jackass of ‘sparing the rod’.
Nazi Germany - RIGHT on schedule.
March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads “Freedom - Peace”
