Wisconsin farmers, hit with a flurry of punches, seek long-term solutions

[Disir]

As Wisconsin farmers plant crops this spring, perched in the cabs of big tractors rolling through the fields, many will breathe a sigh of relief that they’re still in the driver's seat.

From the dairy barns to the cranberry bogs, farmers have endured sinking commodities prices and miserable weather that’s resulted in some just now finishing last year’s corn harvest.

About 820 dairy farmers alone called it quits in 2019, a rate of more than two per day, and hundreds of other farmers in beef, pork and grain bailed out or barely made it across the finish line to 2020.

...This year, with $8.8 million in state funding, three UW System schools — Platteville, River Falls and Madison — launched plans for a Dairy Innovation Hub that's expected to create an advanced dairy management academy and improve labs and farms devoted to research.
Wisconsin farmers, hit with a flurry of punches, seek long-term solutions

They will provide "intellectual support". There is investment and attempts to trade in other countries. What else could be done?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Early spring will help

 

[Ringel05]

As Wisconsin farmers plant crops this spring, perched in the cabs of big tractors rolling through the fields, many will breathe a sigh of relief that they’re still in the driver's seat.

From the dairy barns to the cranberry bogs, farmers have endured sinking commodities prices and miserable weather that’s resulted in some just now finishing last year’s corn harvest.

About 820 dairy farmers alone called it quits in 2019, a rate of more than two per day, and hundreds of other farmers in beef, pork and grain bailed out or barely made it across the finish line to 2020.

...This year, with $8.8 million in state funding, three UW System schools — Platteville, River Falls and Madison — launched plans for a Dairy Innovation Hub that's expected to create an advanced dairy management academy and improve labs and farms devoted to research.
Wisconsin farmers, hit with a flurry of punches, seek long-term solutions

They will provide "intellectual support". There is investment and attempts to trade in other countries. What else could be done?

What else could be done?

Break up Bayer............

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Early spring will help

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

As Wisconsin farmers plant crops this spring, perched in the cabs of big tractors rolling through the fields, many will breathe a sigh of relief that they’re still in the driver's seat.

From the dairy barns to the cranberry bogs, farmers have endured sinking commodities prices and miserable weather that’s resulted in some just now finishing last year’s corn harvest.

About 820 dairy farmers alone called it quits in 2019, a rate of more than two per day, and hundreds of other farmers in beef, pork and grain bailed out or barely made it across the finish line to 2020.

...This year, with $8.8 million in state funding, three UW System schools — Platteville, River Falls and Madison — launched plans for a Dairy Innovation Hub that's expected to create an advanced dairy management academy and improve labs and farms devoted to research.
Wisconsin farmers, hit with a flurry of punches, seek long-term solutions

They will provide "intellectual support". There is investment and attempts to trade in other countries. What else could be done?

What else could be done?

Break up Bayer............

A bit late for that since we let them take over Monsanto.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Early spring will help

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Early spring will help

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Early spring will help

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Early spring will help

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

 

[pknopp]

As Wisconsin farmers plant crops this spring, perched in the cabs of big tractors rolling through the fields, many will breathe a sigh of relief that they’re still in the driver's seat.

From the dairy barns to the cranberry bogs, farmers have endured sinking commodities prices and miserable weather that’s resulted in some just now finishing last year’s corn harvest.

About 820 dairy farmers alone called it quits in 2019, a rate of more than two per day, and hundreds of other farmers in beef, pork and grain bailed out or barely made it across the finish line to 2020.

...This year, with $8.8 million in state funding, three UW System schools — Platteville, River Falls and Madison — launched plans for a Dairy Innovation Hub that's expected to create an advanced dairy management academy and improve labs and farms devoted to research.
Wisconsin farmers, hit with a flurry of punches, seek long-term solutions

They will provide "intellectual support". There is investment and attempts to trade in other countries. What else could be done?

More corporate farm socialism?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Early spring will help

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

Do tell.....

 

[Harpy Eagle]

as long as it is not accompanied by too much rain.

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

Do tell.....

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

 

[Manonthestreet]

well or too little if ya want. Sometimes mother nature wins,,,thats what happened.

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

Do tell.....

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

Are ya sure about that....what about all the cash that was supposedly handed out that people raged against.....and according to your logic if mother nature didnt get em Trump would have....

 

[Harpy Eagle]

too little is easier to combat.

Mother nature coupled with a trade war is a bad combination.

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

Do tell.....

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

Are ya sure about that....what about all the cash that was supposedly handed out that people raged against.....and according to your logic if mother nature didnt get em Trump would have....

There was a lot of cash being handed out, that is for sure. In 2019 it was the highest percent of many farmers income, but it did not cover what they would have made if they had been able to sell all their grains and if prices had not dropped.

I work with farmers for a living, mid-west grain farmers mostly and it is a precarious time right now for them.

 

[MeBelle]

There was a lot of cash being handed out, that is for sure. In 2019 it was the highest percent of many farmers income, but it did not cover what they would have made if they had been able to sell all their grains and if prices had not dropped.

I work with farmers for a living, mid-west grain farmers mostly and it is a precarious time right now for them.

Links please?

tia

 

[Manonthestreet]

Trade war makes no diff if you have nothing to sell

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

Do tell.....

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

Are ya sure about that....what about all the cash that was supposedly handed out that people raged against.....and according to your logic if mother nature didnt get em Trump would have....

There was a lot of cash being handed out, that is for sure. In 2019 it was the highest percent of many farmers income, but it did not cover what they would have made if they had been able to sell all their grains and if prices had not dropped.

I work with farmers for a living, mid-west grain farmers mostly and it is a precarious time right now for them.

I understand that.....there are other customers in the world besides China....I dont buy if we cant sell to China we have no market drivel

 

[Penelope]

Looks like they will be voting for a Democrat this election cycle as tramp doesn't believe in climate change.

They also have to be mindful of climate change. The biggest impact is going to be the availability of water, placing dairy farms in a vulnerable spot as they need large amounts of it for cattle and crops.

"Our forecast is that dairy is going to move north to places that have plenty of water. And the ideal place to be dairying 50 years from now is going to be in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta (Canada) because the growing season for crops will be six to eight weeks longer,” Britt said.

Big farms will be expected to recycle water multiple times before it's discharged into the environment. The nutrients and energy from manure could be captured and reused.

"There's going to be a natural push by the public and the government to insist that we don't contaminate our groundwater," Britt said.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

When they fucked you the year before mother nature did...it makes a difference.

Do tell.....

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

Are ya sure about that....what about all the cash that was supposedly handed out that people raged against.....and according to your logic if mother nature didnt get em Trump would have....

There was a lot of cash being handed out, that is for sure. In 2019 it was the highest percent of many farmers income, but it did not cover what they would have made if they had been able to sell all their grains and if prices had not dropped.

I work with farmers for a living, mid-west grain farmers mostly and it is a precarious time right now for them.

I understand that.....there are other customers in the world besides China....I dont buy if we cant sell to China we have no market drivel

Nobody can lose their largest customer and not feel a pinch. Those other places we were selling to also.
We are also not the only one growing the product. Nobody has benefited more than Brazil. Right now the only advantage we have over them is a much lower transportation cost thanks in large part to the Mississippi River.
China is helping them rectify that situation.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Do tell.....

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

Are ya sure about that....what about all the cash that was supposedly handed out that people raged against.....and according to your logic if mother nature didnt get em Trump would have....

There was a lot of cash being handed out, that is for sure. In 2019 it was the highest percent of many farmers income, but it did not cover what they would have made if they had been able to sell all their grains and if prices had not dropped.

I work with farmers for a living, mid-west grain farmers mostly and it is a precarious time right now for them.

I understand that.....there are other customers in the world besides China....I dont buy if we cant sell to China we have no market drivel

Nobody can lose their largest customer and not feel a pinch. Those other places we were selling to also.
We are also not the only one growing the product. Nobody has benefited more than Brazil. Right now the only advantage we have over them is a much lower transportation cost thanks in large part to the Mississippi River.
China is helping them rectify that situation.

Nobody has the capacity to replace what we produce in farming...ergo if China buys from someone else that should open opportunities elsewhere for our farmers

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It is pretty simple, the farmers took a hit in 2018 due to the trade war and then they took a double whammy in 2019 due to mother nature.

Are ya sure about that....what about all the cash that was supposedly handed out that people raged against.....and according to your logic if mother nature didnt get em Trump would have....

There was a lot of cash being handed out, that is for sure. In 2019 it was the highest percent of many farmers income, but it did not cover what they would have made if they had been able to sell all their grains and if prices had not dropped.

I work with farmers for a living, mid-west grain farmers mostly and it is a precarious time right now for them.

I understand that.....there are other customers in the world besides China....I dont buy if we cant sell to China we have no market drivel

Nobody can lose their largest customer and not feel a pinch. Those other places we were selling to also.
We are also not the only one growing the product. Nobody has benefited more than Brazil. Right now the only advantage we have over them is a much lower transportation cost thanks in large part to the Mississippi River.
China is helping them rectify that situation.

Nobody has the capacity to replace what we produce in farming...ergo if China buys from someone else that should open opportunities elsewhere for our farmers

The USDA is predicting Brazil will produce more soybeans than the US this year. They have doubled their output in less than 10 years.