I'm trying to figure out the amount of dumbs you're getting on some of these posts. @awd4cy do you just dislike Cowgirl or something?
Why are Farmers never happy?
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There are about 10 posters that just dumb other peoples posts no matter what. I had a couple who did but put them on ignore.
Yes he is. The little guy took on Monsanto and beat them. That doesn't happen in monopolistic situations.
Subsidies and bailouts are a larger portion of most small operation's income than the big ones that get the flashy checks.
The payouts have limits of a certain amount, and large operations dilute that payout on a per acre basis. Let's just say there's a subsidy paying farmers $100 per acre, but you max out at $100K per entity. A large partnership (consisting of 5 underlying LLCs) that farms 15K acres and consists of multiple entities could get $500K in subsidy payments, A single guy farming 1K acres would get $100K. You look at the raw numbers and say "THEY'RE GETTING 5X AS MUCH!", but that's not how it really works in regards to your margins.
The guy farming 1,000 acres is getting the full $100 per acre. The group farming 15,000 acres is getting 1/3rd of that per acre. It's a much bigger benefit to the little guy, even though he got 1/5th of the total money.
Happened to both my dad and my father in law. My grandpa farmed and my dad went to work in town at the meat packing plant. My father in law went to college and got into auditing/banking.
Went a Google Street view to look at Stine's facility.
Are they applying seed treatment out in the open?
That conveyor and ground looks covered in red.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.713...4!1stJMyoROIiLDi2kk-i649_A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Are they applying seed treatment out in the open?
That conveyor and ground looks covered in red.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.713...4!1stJMyoROIiLDi2kk-i649_A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
All of my farmer friends are super happy and playing golf every day right now. Not sure what you're talking about.
It's a captive market, especially if the big four produce the only seed that's competitive.
Harry Stine posts about on CF?
I think he is in his 70's and a graduate of McPherson College in Kansas. Are u joking?
He really dislikes me from the Cave I assume. I don't recall ever really interacting with him but see his dumbs in the crowd of those who rate a lot but never engage in good faith.
I had a guy get huffy with me on here and ask if I knew who Stine was... It was years ago.
Definitely not treating outside. It honestly looks like treatment dust-off from loading seed tenders or semis, but that is a shockingly large amount. The treatment on the conveyor and immediately around the bottom I can understand, but I'm pretty lost as to how the entire slab of concrete is covered.
The conveyor to the right of the building that goes into the grain leg also appears to have treatment residue, so I'm wonder if this is a re-work facility where they are dumping and rebagging large quantities of treated corn.
That’s the thing. There are other companies producing quality products. The big players in that other 40% are still very competitive. Like Stine in soybeans
Just so I'm clear what we're doing here, we start off by saying, "man, farmers ***** about everything, especially weather"....
Then we pivot to, "well, the local media sure runs a lot of stories about how much farmers *****" and actually use the word hypocritical....
Then you go ahead and ***** about your own job and how much it sucks, especially in unfavorable weather.
Interesting.
