dback posted the reuters article a year ago and I posted about what bullshit it was back then. And in general these articles all are based on that reuters article. This is what happens when reporters and forum posters write about shit they have no fucking clue about. No farmer is going to plow crop under without receiving some kind of compensation for it.Skjellyfetti wrote:Yeah, if they can't sell them... there isn't enough storage space so they plow them back into the fields.
If they're having no trouble selling them... what have the bailouts been for? Just a pure handout?
These articles are all from last year's harvest. Harvest time is just now (at least here in central Illinois). I suspect it will be similar this year. But, the bailouts were for last year's crop.
Lots of soybeans with no place to go
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/11/06/ ... -place-go/
Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1NQ0GA
27.5 million tons of US soybeans expected to go unsold this year as a direct consequence of the trade war with China
https://m.chron.com/technology/business ... 637032.php
US farmers letting crops rot as storage costs rise due to China trade war
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/4178 ... -trade-war
https://championshipsubdivision.com/for ... s#p1216477