Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.
Ohhhh nooo!
Fuck republicans and donald trump. You are responsible for all of this and the blood is on your hands dude.
I will fight tooth and nail against any bailout for these chuds. They voted for this. Stew in it, chumps
Why wait? You can use Bitcoin to opt out of bailouts entirely.
so Argentina is asking for a US bailout loan this week, and taking US farm sales?
China is playing the leader while shading US agriculture.
GG. WP.
Fucked around and found out. You picking up what you threw down flyover states?
Nice job farmers. Now the corpos can gobble up your land for cheap and leave you out on your ass… Maybe you shouldn’t have backed the orange moron.
Actually, these tariffs could be the thing that turn impossible burgers into the mainstream. Could you imagine if an impossible burger dropped substantially below a beef burger? You won’t have to imagine it soon.
Impossible burgers already $1 cheaper in my cafeteria than beef.
What protein do you think they feed beef? If you can feed cattle for free, beef burgers will still be cheaper than the fake meet alternatives.
You mean when a beef burgers gets more expensive? Ah, the illusion of “dropping” below beef burgers.
Can confirm, it tastes “good enough” to me that if it were the cheaper alternative I’d default to it.
A good fake meat burger beats a bad or mediocre beef burger any day.
But nothing still beats a premium beef burger.
Yeah. Impossible and Beyond burgers both beat shitty fast food meat patties, hands down.
Though I’ll take a nice black bean patty most days over both, or pulled pork, or salmon.
Or caviar, or truffles…
Never had those. Not sure what you mean - are you saying pulled pork burgers or salmon burgers are expensive? They’re not, here. At least at good restaurants, it’s maybe a couple dollars’ difference.
For fucking real! I got some when it was on clearance and it could’ve fooled me. I also kinda liked Boca burgers way back in the day when my mom used to keep the freezer stocked with them.
I don’t know what sort of protein they’re using, it might not be soy based. But this does mean Dirt Cheap tofu that they’d be selling at a loss just to get rid of all the soybeans. You could also end up with warehouses full of soy protein isolate that needs to go somewhere which could be a very cheap source for a lot of things for years to come
Without the Chinese purchases, the prices are too low to make harvesting profitable or at least if they have no buyer, they get no profit. The beans will die and rot in the fields. Then next year comes around and they don’t have any money to plant new crops. I am not sure if insurance for crops is a thing anymore in the US but next spring the fields might be empty.
Don’t know what happened with Just Eggs when real eggs were super expensive. What stopped them the past 5 years from scaling production to really take advantage of the peak egg prices
I tried some last week for the first time, and it is borderline a food crime. I was making some home made mcmuffins and tried them side by side with real eggs. It might be okay if it’s consumed with other ingredients like a breakfast burrito, maybe, but on its own or where it can stand out, just no.
I’m happy that it’s there for those willing to try or on a restricted diet/vegan lifestyle, but it would not sell as a direct egg replacement for regular folk in my opinion.
As long as their macronutrient profile resembles beef (ie. near to no carbs); I’d happily switch over!
From https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/beyond-beef/ground
Nutrition
Amount %Daily Value* Total Fat 14g 18% Saturated Fat 2g 10% Trans Fat 0g Polyunsaturated Fat 2.5g Monounsaturated Fat 8g Cholesterol 0mg 0% Sodium 310mg 14% Total Carbohydrate 8g 3% Dietary Fiber 2g 7% Total Sugars 0g Added Sugars 0g Protein 21g 34% Vitamin D 0mcg 0% Calcium 120mg 8% Iron 4mg 20% Potassium 370mg 8% Nothing alike, I’m afraid.
They shouldn’t be bailed out. They should just lose their Farms. Solid from some hippies to make a commune instead, it’s a way better use of the land
They won’t be. Small farms will be foreclosed on and predatory corporations owned by billionaires will swoop in to buy them up, further concentrating all wealth into the hands of the few.
Tyson, perdue, foster ,etc. and plus vances ACRETRADER app.
all the American oligarchs also own farmland, lots and lots of farmland.
This isn’t just wealth though. Wealth has the potential to lose its worth in some scenarios depending on the outcome of the current regime. Arable land? As long as we don’t hit the MAD button arable land is going to be primo real estate regardless of what happens. Wealth can only buy food; arable land produces it. THATS power.
It’s not going to be arable for much longer, corporate farms are creating dustbowl conditions by clear-cutting wind breaks for marginal gains. This has already resulted in dozens of injuries and even some fatalities in Illinois as wind storms pick up dry farmland dirt and turn them into zero visibility dust storms. Cover crops cost money so corporate farms refuse to use them.
Do you think the people who will end up owning all this arable land will be smart enough to avoid fucking it up? Mono cropping, climate change, pollution, pesticide runoff: these can turn your once arable land into useless acreage nobody wants right quick. I understand we have a lot of it, but look what happened in Brazil.
They aren’t going to be bailed out. This was planned. The corrupt government wants their land and bankrupt farmers sell the cheapest land.
They have already been bailed out to the tune of $42B just this year. Next year, or the year after, when the same thing happens the fascists will blame the farmers for not turning their fortunes around. When they make it the farmer’s “fault”, that’s when the bailouts end & AcreTrader shows up.
Trump did this shit his first term and they voted for him again knowing full well he would do it again. Fuck’em
he also bailed them out, but this time he has no reason to bail them out, he wants thier land now.
Oh my god, it’s happening. My country made it into the news without it being something hideous!
Wir haben es geschaft meine Brüdis!
Hmm… 🤔
We made into the news antagonizing America wtf, Milei is the bigger Trump bootlicker ever, I’m confused.
Wenn du aus Argentinien bist, warum sprichst du dann Deutsch?
When they Nazis.
Technically, long before the nazi went seeking shelter. The German speaking populace was a reason why the nazi chose Argentina
Genau das gleiche mit Blumenau und Pomerode in Brazilien.
Maga: “winning!”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. A la USA. -chef’s kiss-
Someone wants to buy US soy farms for cheap.
That’s what I love about their stupid logic
The US economy was built and maintained because of the large number of middle class business people and small town business owners, farmers and workers … the little bit of wealth they generated for themselves helped to create a monolith of wealth for the ultra rich … the money trickled upwards.
Now they are set to destroy and decimate all those American middle class people and their little bit of wealth … it will be like shutting off the tap that supplied the ultra wealthy with all their wealth. On top of that, the new class and growth of destitute people everywhere will only become a net loss as you try to turn your country into an expensive police or military state that will constantly need financing.
Sure, the rich will be able to buy everything up for cheap … land, businesses, buildings, real estate, everything for a fraction of what it cost originally … but any savings they get will be lost on paying for security, police, even military as everyone everywhere start fighting for the little bit of scraps they can get because they’re starving.
trump and the gop, wants to replicate RUSSIA, and putins oligarch, where all the control, and planning is on the top.
even russia purged a lot of oligarchs (for their own reasons). in USA both parties are oligarch parties, just different competing ones.
Ironically, this is (partially) why government social support services originally started in England. Back in the Victorian period, the rich realised it was cheaper to pay a bit more tax to keep the poor fed, than pay for security to stop them being robbed. It was also cheaper than locking them all up.
Which is why we will never be allowed to starve … not fed enough, not enough nutrition, constantly hungry … but never allowed to completely starve.
This is America we’re talking about here. MAGA is fucking cruel. They’ll take pleasure watching people starve who they’ve deemed as lessor.
That already think all immigrants in the country are criminals and cheer when they’re deported to death camps.
Sorry, friend. You’re starving.
Not like you will have statistics or free media to know one way or the other. Lmao
Glad USians sacrificed all those children to gun violence in case they ever needed to use their guns to fight tyranny. /s
They are trying to engineer a return to feudalism, like slavery but for everyone, not just black people this time
If you cant afford to miss a paycheck, youre already a slave
Billionaires want to buy farmland for cheap
JD Vance apparently
Don’t start a war you can’t win
Unless losing is your goal
Incredible to see how easily they are collapsing our society
They?
the oligarchy, yes.
I thought they meant China, because this is all on the US.
The Trump administration and the billionaires
American leopards are feasting well.
FAFO
