Large corporate farms, I.e. Dole, Bird’s Eye, Fresh Express. And there still are independent farmers, they just don’t make much money on what they grow. Do talk to them about government subsidies. If it wasn’t for these, they wouldn’t survive. However, family farms are becoming a thing of the past quickly. I’ve spent a lot of time in rural areas and a lot of my friends there are having to sell their farms because they’ve just gone bankrupt. The shame of being the fifth generation farmer and losing the family farm is horrible. But there it is.
Farmland is turned into concrete. Where Florida, not to many years ago was ranked No. 1 in the nation for produce production/farming, it’s now ranked down at no. 4 or 5, below California, Texas, Arizona. Florida farming has dropped drastically between DeStupid running them out if the state, or costing them their farms, or diseases like citrus canker running citrus out of the state.
The government tried to control the spread of canker when it came into the port of Miami years ago and was found in Dade and Broward counties in private home’s yards. But the state Supreme Court ruled the state couldn’t destroy their trees to rid the canker. Then came a Hurricane that spread it across the citrus belt in one swift swoop. Now, we pay through the nose fir orange juice and the like because 70% of the juice oranges or juice pulp comes from Mexico or Brazil.
Help me out here, please: Who’s growing the produce in place of the farmers’ exodus?
Mexico and large corporate farms.
Large corporate farms, I.e. Dole, Bird’s Eye, Fresh Express. And there still are independent farmers, they just don’t make much money on what they grow. Do talk to them about government subsidies. If it wasn’t for these, they wouldn’t survive. However, family farms are becoming a thing of the past quickly. I’ve spent a lot of time in rural areas and a lot of my friends there are having to sell their farms because they’ve just gone bankrupt. The shame of being the fifth generation farmer and losing the family farm is horrible. But there it is.
And Trump would do what to help those farmers?
Farmland is turned into concrete. Where Florida, not to many years ago was ranked No. 1 in the nation for produce production/farming, it’s now ranked down at no. 4 or 5, below California, Texas, Arizona. Florida farming has dropped drastically between DeStupid running them out if the state, or costing them their farms, or diseases like citrus canker running citrus out of the state.
The government tried to control the spread of canker when it came into the port of Miami years ago and was found in Dade and Broward counties in private home’s yards. But the state Supreme Court ruled the state couldn’t destroy their trees to rid the canker. Then came a Hurricane that spread it across the citrus belt in one swift swoop. Now, we pay through the nose fir orange juice and the like because 70% of the juice oranges or juice pulp comes from Mexico or Brazil.