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Farming RN is a Nightmare - So What Does This Mean?

Author
Sara Causey
Published
Thu 18 Aug 2022
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Agriculture is never an easy line of work. As JFK noted, "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways." Farmers are expected to do more than that now. So what does this mean for you?

Key topics:

✔️ Farmers have been warning people for months about food and water shortages. People in agriculture are often on the frontlines of what's yet to come. If you ignore them, you're doing it at your own risk IMO.
✔️ I had seeds that did nothing. My corn was completely burned up in the flash drought. I'm hearing the same thing from other people around the country regardless of growing zone.
✔️ Hay prices are insane and that's if you can find any. Some fields are seeing a 50% drop in bales produced this summer with no second cutting.
✔️ People are so disconnected from nature, the food supply, and wheel of the year. There IS a time for sowing and for reaping, for planting and for harvesting, for basking in the sun and for storing food for the winter months. So what happens if there is little or no harvest in the summer and early fall?


Links I discuss in this episode:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article264446131.html

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national-black-farmers-president-issues-dire-warning-biden-admin-heading-food-shortage

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/12/mass-crop-failures-expected-in-england-as-farmers-demand-hosepipe-bans


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