Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt.
Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt.
Every industry now has gatekeeping mega corporations consolidated into a handful of players that have entered into illegal trusts to run prices up. At least 50 percent of increases have been such corporations increasing their profit margins with the existing inflation as their excuse.
It’s not legal, we don’t need new laws, existing laws could bring these guys to heel. Except the courts are captured, regulators are captured. If only we had a strong leader in 2021 we could’ve had a loud aggressive campaign to bring these chiseling corporations to heel one way and or others.
What we got was perfunctionary attempts, with no backup, no air support, and no campaign. A token leftist, perhaps the only one despite 30% of their electorate consisting of them, that could achieve nothing without the campaign to overcome the corrupted system by massive public pressure and pressure of other crimes and perversions being brought to light and prosecuted for those protecting the powerful in unlawfully gouging us.
It would be popular too, and these current guys would not be in power. Remember that next time the establishment democrats tell you there was nothing they could do, as if they, and as if we, were too dumb to know how real politic is played.
I remember watching an egg farmer live stream and she said that they have only increased their prices 10-15% when the shelves were at a nearly 100% increase.
The bird flu was an excuse to raise prices by the few remaining agribusiness conglomerates. I presume there are three or so left controlling the market as it is with beef and chicken and pork individually.
The farmers and producers are getting squeezed, if anything they are making less in real value. Big money without any constraints destroys the free market, and itself. Our lawmakers increasingly actually believe the ad hoc free market arguments about letting the market sort everything too, a recipe for future economic crashes.