Florida farmers now plowing over perfectly good tomatoes as Trump’s tariff policies cause prices to plummet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-farmers-now-plowing-over-130000347.html?guccounter=1

Tony DiMare’s family owns 4,000 acres of tomato farms across Florida and California. Sadly, his Florida crops are not looking good — mowed over and left to rot, like tomato vines across the state.

But it’s not growing conditions that are the problem. It’s economic ones.

DiMare told WSVN 7 Miami that President Donald Trump’s tariff and immigration policies are driving farmers to abandon their crops.

In January, he warned that Trump’s crackdown on migrants would squeeze farmers, who rely on migrants to pick produce.

“We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country,” he told the Financial Post.

About 50% of farm workers in the U.S. are undocumented migrants — including skilled supervisors and machine operators — according to Farmonaut, a farm technology company.

As the Trump administration proceeds with mass deportations of undocumented migrants, there are far fewer pickers in the fields, and crops are left to go bad.

>>1410939 (OP)
Trump will end up paying the farmers thousands in welfare just like he did in his first term

>>1410943
Crazy how everyone forgot that shit. I didn't and made sure to remind everyone.

>>1410943
every president does. that's why they vote GOP. they will always get bailed out and they just don't want to pay more taxes.

>>1410939 (OP)
>Farmers plowing over crops due to tariffs and deportations
And they know who to blame. The orange thing responsible for >>1410523
'Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and
eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political
history'
Gee, I wonder which previous US president said that, and did he have 'D' after his name?
Either you make the GOP history or the GOP make you history. Choose wisely, Trumpy.

>Food price is dropping
This is good

>>1410939 (OP)
>I just discovered farm subsidies

>>1410943
*billions

>>1410950
Food price is going up retard. Less crops are being harvested overall.

>>1410958
The article says the opposite retard: "Trump’s tariff policies cause prices to plummet"
Take your head out of your ass

>>1410959
Take your head out of Trump's ass. You'll see reality then.

>>1410959
Weird how the article also says:
>Prepare for higher food costs
AND
>Farmonaut notes that the impacts of tariffs and immigration policy on farmers will have a knock-on effect in grocery stores. If U.S. farmers don’t have enough workers to harvest crops, Americans will have to buy more imported produce, and pay more due to tariffs.
and
>While farmers have few options but to hope the political upheaval will end, consumers should prepare to mitigate those costs.

Pretty sure they meant profits.

>>1410962
Weird how it also says:
>Florida farmers saw the wholesale price of a box of tomatoes plummet from $16 per box to $3 or $4
It's like it's a shit article given it has so many internal inconsistencies

>>1410947
Why though? Why is the US so completely fucked that it can't even griw food without relying on cheap immigrant labor? To the point the government has to bail out failing farms. Is this the lingering shadow of 300 years of wealth being generated by slave labor and now it's the only way they know?

>>1410972
Mexican farm pickers get about 1/10 the wage of US H2-A visa holders and we share a massive land border with them, and have USMCA/NAFTA guaranteeing open trade for produce, a what do you expect.
It's the same exact region US manufacturers struggle to compete with Chinese manufacturers.

>>1410939 (OP)
> “We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country,” he told the Financial Post.
lol get fucked. Glad he’s getting what he voted for and goes out of business.

>>1410939 (OP)
>“We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country,” he told the Financial Post.
>About 50% of farm workers in the U.S. are undocumented migrants — including skilled supervisors and machine operators — according to Farmonaut, a farm technology company.
Here's your 'Fell For It Again' award

Threadly reminder that Republicans in Congress know these tariffs are an illegal abuse of power but will do nothing to stop it.
>>1410609

>>1410947
Why dey takes muh food stamps and Medicaid's aways and gibs it tuh dese corporate welfare bum farmers?

>>1410967
AI slop.

>>1411149
Food stamps are literally farm welfare in the first place. I assure you your average Republican would be fine with mass starvation if fixing it couldn't put money in the pockets of farmers and grocery chains.

You see that shit with homelessness where' they'll ban loitering/camping/sleeping in public, put spikes under overpasses, and destroy every public bench they can find just to try to force the homeless to die in prison or the wilderness out of site instead of just building fucking public housing.

>>1410943
Truly is really sad they didn't automate tomate harvesting. Anyway is time to put billionaires into good use. They are the fat of nations and we need to sacrifice some of them now. All billionaires that incurred in woke activities must be sacrificed for the good of the Republic.