Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages
by hilbertseries on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:18PM
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A bill to bailout farmers will pass the house and senate with broad bipartisan support.
Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages
by bluGill on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:29PM
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The later in best off. They are businessmen who know their numbers. Their biggest problem now is low crop prices, a situation that goes back to 2015. An increase in demand is the best things for them.
Agriculture is considered essential infrastructure in the US and not stopped. Except they can't get immigrant labor but that is a problem for the small vegetable farmers who don't need or buy the expensive equipment anyway.
Then there's "family farming", where you have a fleet of GPS-and-climate-control-equipped John Deere's on finance and invest heavily in automated irrigation and sell to wholesalers who provide to national chains.
The former are probably fine. The latter, who provide food for the country, are generally running on huge credit lines with payments to meet and in uncertain times like this can (and regularly do) very quickly go bankrupt.