Under Trump, the Government is paying farmers to grow crops that they can't harvest so they get plowed over so Americans can pay tarriffs + increased prices for Mexicos leftover crops
Shills will pretend this is 'winning'

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

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.

Deportations devastate farm workforce

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.

One spoke to WSVN about fellow migrants leaving Florida each day. He spoke on condition of anonymity, concerned he might be deported himself

"A lot of people are really afraid, and sometimes they come, sometimes they don’t come,” he said. “And the harvest is lost because it cannot be harvested.”

The labor shortage also means Florida farmers have to pay more for labor. At the same time, they’re getting less money for their produce due to Trump’s tariff policies.
Tariffs upset traditional supply chain

From January through April, Trump’s threatened tariffs triggered Mexican suppliers to double or even triple tomato exports to the U.S. — before tariffs went into effect.


The result? The U.S. market was flooded with Mexican tomatoes. Florida farmers saw the wholesale price of a box of tomatoes plummet from $16 per box to $3 or $4. DiMare said tomato farmers need around $10 or $11 per box to break even.

“You can’t even afford to pick them right now,” said Heather Moehling, president of the Miami-Dade County Farm Bureau. “Between the cost of the labor and the inputs that goes in, it’s more cost-effective for the farmers to just plow them right now.”

It’s not just Florida tomato growers feeling the pinch. Canada has imposed a 25% tariff on U.S. watermelons in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products. DiMare knows one watermelon grower who’s lost Canadian customers to Mexican watermelon suppliers as a result.
Prepare for higher food costs

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.

The Food Policy Center at Hunter College of New York City warns that the resulting surge in food prices will drive inflation — “stressing household budgets across the nation, and particularly hurting families in areas with high food insecurity."

While farmers have few options but to hope the political upheaval will end, consumers should prepare to mitigate those costs.

This seems familiar.

>>1410993 (OP)
Are the ear bandages in imitation of trump's ear being shot? Literal cultists.

>>1410993 (OP)
>The labor shortage also means Florida farmers have to pay more for labor
Whoa WTF, I'm voting for AOC to be president in 2028 because she's right: Workers should NOT be getting paid more! Thank God leftists are fighting for lower wages to boost corporate profits

>>1411221
Its a good thing then that a bunch of Americans stepped up and got to do the labor for more mon-
wait, he just plowed his field under instead and wasted all the food.
Now no ones getting paid or fed. But we don't have any brown people!

>>1411221
AOC isn't running for President. You read too much clickbait.

>>1411137
It was a symbol of support after an attempted political assassination. How is that "cult-like" in any way? Go find your pussy hat.

>>1411337
saving this for when she announces her campaign a couple years from now. I hope you'll still be here but you probably won't, leftists don't last long here because you get tired of being objectively BTFO so often.
>>1411286
>economy didn't instantly adapt to a 50-year-old problem?????
We really need to raise the voting age. We can't keep letting our future be affected by Zoomers too young to realize that it takes time for the market to stabilize and adjust wages, and that it needs to be a nationwide thing not just Florida.

>>1411626
Its a good thing we haven't tried this before and failed miserably because no American wants to be out there being underpaid to pick crops in global warming.

You faggots shriek that minimum wage workers shouldn't be able to support themselves. Who is going to want to not support themselves for nothing picking crops?

>>1411636
>because no American wants to be out there being underpaid to pick crops
Zoomers should be banned from voting until your generation learns to read because this argument started with pointing out that the shortage of workers will force farmers to pay more, which leftists like you and OP think is a bad thing because you are against good wages.

>>1411626
Man you people really do believe any old clickbait story, don't you.

>>1411676
>the shortage of workers will force farmers to pay more,
Lmao not the case. Their entire profit margins have been constructed around exploiting immigrants. They cannot afford to pay more.

Hell, even if they did, you clear don't understand how absolutely fucking backbreaking and body destroying commercial farmwork can be. There's a reason the main people taking these jobs are those with little other choice.

>>1411678
wow you're right I guess everybody in the US just starved to death before the 60s because nobody could pick crops. And everybody in every other country including first-world western countries is currently starving to death because literally nobody except the US tolerates this level of illegal immigration.

>>1411678
he's too retarded to explain agribusiness to, you should just stick to humiliating him for being a shill

>>1411680
>wow you're right I guess everybody in the US just starved to death before the 60s because nobody could pick crops
That was then, this is now. The industry would need to be ripped up at the roots to adjust to this kind of changes.

You know the real irony? You know what other countries do to supplement their agricultural industries? Immigrants. Except their immigration requirements aren't the red tape hell the US' are.

>>1411684
>That was then (when people made good wages), this is now (when brainwashed leftist kids like me got tricked by corporations to vote against our own interests)
k

>>1411680
>I guess everybody in the US just starved to death before the 60s because nobody could pick crops
Lmao you think immigrants, legal or otherwise, only showed up to work in fields in the 60s? They've always been the majority of agricultural workers, even when fucking slavery was legal.

>>1411687
Farm wages have always been shit and the jobs mostly taken by immigrants you fucking retard.

>>1411684
I'm gonna be honest man, any system that would fall apart if it couldn't exploit people should be ripped up and rebooted. There's no ethical argument for keeping it. The only arguments for keeping it are that it makes too much money for certain people to let go of and it would cost too much to replace. But those are not ethical arguments, only practical ones. Ethically it is still bad.

>>1411691
The agricultural system relies on immigrants. It always has, it always will. And it makes sense because it is a hard labor job that tends to only appeal to those without better options, which immigrants will happily do in exchange for living in a better place than where they came from.

>>1411692
And exclusively paying them below poverty wages makes it exploitation. Exclusively paying below poverty because the entire system has been designed to only work when it pays below poverty makes it an exploitative system that deserves to be ripped up and replaced. There is no moral argument for keeping it exploitative, only arguments about the cost of alternatives.

>>1411694
>Exclusively paying below poverty because the entire system has been designed to only work when it pays below poverty makes it an exploitative system that deserves to be ripped up and replaced.
The problem is Repubs are under the delusional expectation that they can reform the system to work with no immigrants at all.

>>1411695
>The problem is Repubs are under the delusional expectation that they can reform the system to work with no immigrants at all.
The problem is Repubs don't care if the system does work. The primary function of society to a Republican is for people "less than" you in society, either physically, financially, socially, racially, religiously, or mentally, to be hurt more than you because being "less than" someone else is a moral failing for which those people deserve hatred and suffering. The system getting shittier is a simple and effective way of achieving that and if they have to suffer more, that's fine, as long as the damage is magnified by your station.

Republicans view privilege as divinely ordained and morally right and as something that should only be magnified. They are peasant-brained. Simple as.

The idea that they give 2 shits about reforming the system is fucking laughable. When have you ever heard of a Republican proposing an earnest reform of anything that wasn't just setting fire to it and walking away?

>>1411695
>we need slaves okay?

>>1411730
it's funny because you're a shill and i'm sure you're paid slave wages

>>1411730
You can rework the system... but not only will it fight it every step of the way with there indeed being a few casualties who cannot afford it, but you have to accept that you aren't going to be replacing illegal immigrants with US citizens, but instead other immigrants. And in order to do that, you'll need to ease up immigration requirements and make the process of immigration faster and easier.

>>1411370
>Go find your pussy hat
I'm not the pussy cultist wearing a hat such as those pussies in the OP pic are or they wouldn't be pussy cultists and wouldn't allow Trump's retarded opinions to exist in their minds. But the fact they do proves they're pussies with no minds of their own. Just as you have no mind of your own with that retarded post of yours, >>1411370

>>1410993 (OP)
weird photo but whatever
at least they are not at an NBA game

>>1412217
Why?