The oh-woe-is-me farmers are completely out of pocket

[u/XennialPlotTwist]

The video attached, by #BlackbirdCoop aka FarmingWhileBiege breaks down the side of the farming industry that they don't want you to know. While there may be some mom and pop farmers, who are struggling, those farmers are few and far between.

Again, all credit to @BlackbirdCoop

[u/justcallmezach]

I have 12 aunts and uncles. 7 of them being uncles and all farmers (don't get me started on the sexism and abuse in the family towards the 6 daughters - my mother being one of them.

Every one of those 7 brothers and their aggregate 25 kids farm. Every single one of them will cry about how there isn't any money in farming. Every single one of them live in million dollar homes (some of them, multi-million dollar homes) with multi-millions tied up in farm equipment assets, all with yearly new vehicles that I can't afford (and I do well for myself). Good fucking god, do they act like there is zero money in farming. I finally had to tell my mom "this woe-is-me tale is bullshit. You can't tell me that every last one of them is so bad at math that they're going to keep farming in light of all the money they're losing while living in million dollar homes and hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up in their vehicles and millions more tied up in their farm equipment. Stop being stupid. They're all rich, they just like to cry about it."

"Oh, I guess I never thought about it like that."

[u/Proach89 → u/justcallmezach]

A friend married into a farm. Farmer was always broke. Acted like loosing fifty cents was going to starve him. Literally.

My friend one day said they don't have much. I said are you kidding? They're sitting on roughly a $1,000,000 in just raw land that I don't think was entirely paid off, but I imagine it mostly was. They lived in a decent house and had a nice, but not huge farm. Probably $500,000 to $750,000 in equipment that mostly had loans on it. They hardly ever went anywhere, but the husband and wife both bought new trucks every two years. They had enough to buy two new trucks every two years, but not enough to buy health insurance. It was too expensive.

They're straight R and support maga. Everyone should pay their own way and no handouts. They had medical tragedy strike, largely because of self neglect. They liquidated the farm and stuck us with the bill. Great people.

I told my friend the people I know that don't have money live in rentals, not on a hundred plus acres. They are worried about groceries and Christmas presents year round, not buying two new truck every two years and paying loans on fractions of a million in equipment.

My friend then agreed that, they indeed were doing alright.

I know of another farmer that had a 500 acre farm paid off and applied to Easter Seals for a UTV so he could get around his farm better. Easter Seals supplied it. The piece of work didn't think there was anyone else in more need than a multi-millionaire.

These are just two stories of many. The farmers ( 90% of them?) voted for everyone to fend for themselves, except themselves. I have zero sympathy. JD could buy their farm for thirty cents on the dollar and most of them would vote for him again.