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AZJonnie

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13. Why are 'prices plummeting' for produce, exactly?

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:27 PM

Jun 9

And better yet, WHERE? They do not seem to be doing so at the Costco and Safeway I frequent

Or is this actually referring to prices paid to farmers for their commodities falling, and it's maybe because the rest of the world is refusing to buy from the US?

In either case I don't understand how the idea of 'less workers to pick the crops' translates into produce becoming less valuable? Seems like it would increase the value of the crops that are actually picked and ready for market. There must be something I'm missing

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Florida farmers plow under tomato crops [View all] cbabe Jun 9 OP

Yes this was inevitable get the red out Jun 9 #1

Everyone that DIDN'T see this coming, raise your hands A HERETIC I AM Jun 9 #2

Kick for visibility. GOP policies are destroying American farmers bronxiteforever Jun 9 #3

Yeah but Mike johnson BOSSHOG Jun 9 #5

+1 Squeaker of the House. bronxiteforever Jun 9 #7

Did you read what he said Keepthesoulalive Jun 9 #8

He KNOWS the people he hires and sometimes pays aren't criminals, it's the rest he worries about... Probatim Jun 9 #11

Seems corporat power behind GOP wants independent producers out of business & have been trying for decades Attilatheblond Jun 9 #10

The GOP and this presidency is what this is about. Probatim Jun 9 #12

It has been going on for a long time Cirsium Jun 9 #22

Trump touched 4,000 acres of Maters BOSSHOG Jun 9 #4

"We have to secure our borders..." Aristus Jun 9 #6

A direct consequence of current policy Torchlight Jun 9 #9

Why are 'prices plummeting' for produce, exactly? AZJonnie Jun 9 #13

Read the article edhopper Jun 9 #18

FAFO asshole. Ferrets are Cool Jun 9 #14

Ag and service industries will suffer with ICE picking people up at their work sites. Probably construction too. dutch777 Jun 9 #15

It looks like we will need to reinstitute the draft. 1WorldHope Jun 9 #16

Who did he think was going to pick his tomatoes? mcar Jun 9 #17

"We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country" maxsolomon Jun 9 #19

They look Canadian to me. Botany Jun 9 #23

Double whammy IbogaProject Jun 9 #20

FAFO .... Trump voting farmer ... we have to secure both our southern and northern borders. Botany Jun 9 #21

Shades of "The Grapes of Wrath". In that book I think it was potato's that they were plowing under while kids starved. Ping Tung Jun 9 #24

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