More and more farms all over the country are collapsing and failing because of labor shortages. This is going to hit our shelves very soon. Not high prices. Absence of food.
More and more farms all over the country are collapsing and failing because of labor shortages. This is going to hit our shelves very soon. Not high prices. Absence of food.
Should make it mandatory for the administration that created this headache to be forced to work the fields 40 hours+ a week until conditions improve for the farmers....
Some items are already not on shelves. By the holiday season it will be more obvious.
There were no tissue boxes on our shelves the other day. I bought that last multi-pack of square tissue boxes. Not what I wanted but better than nothing as I was out of tissues.
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They (Heritage Foundation) want to eliminate all mom and pop businesses. They want everything owned by the new American oligarchs.
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But we have drive through….
Luckily, the government hasn't done anything recently to impact the import of goods, which will hopefully make up for the temporary shortfall until their production development plans come to fruition. 😐
Whoa! Scary! Trump and his 2025 project will be the blame. Shortage of food.
Although I'm not gonna be happy when food prices skyrocket, until then FUCK THE FARMERS
AND why are there labor shortages? THE ICE GESTAPO! Immigrants are a huge and necessary part of our farm labor, including migratory harvest workers! We need the immigrants, deport the RACISTS?
Just had a crew finish a repair and remodel of a bathroom. 2 scared looking Hispanic men who spoke little English were the only competent workers. Everything they did: golden. Everything the country boys touched? Absolute crap. They're running off people who have skill and abilities.
Been saying it for months...food shortages are the quickest, surest path to riots, violence and martial law, and they're engineering them from multiple directions.
No worries. Slavery is legal in the US 😉
You think it's going to be bad now, just wait until the topsoil shortage starts to impact things.
Iowa & Nebraska voters who elect & re-elect RepubliKKKans are getting butt cheeks clapped and I’m here for it. 🤣🍿💯
they want this so they can buy up all the land
Seeing less and less people out there picking
The psychological aspect of seeing empty shelves will be dramatic. This will panic some people.
Americans haven't understood yet that all this is part of the administration plan to make those small farms to go bankrupt and be brought by the big conglomerates really cheap to later impose the prices they want to the consumer...! This is all part of the Project 2025...!
This is, indeed, a HUGE problem. Food insecurity will affect everyone. It is not a pretend problem. It is a major crisis that will touch the lives of all of us. Don-boy does NOT care about you or whether you eat or not.
But how else will Trump's billionaire buddies be able to buy up all that prime farmland acreage for pennies on the dollar?! Won't SOMEONE think of the billionaires, dammit?!!
Who could have predicted this?!
We’ll have both. The shortages cause the price spikes on whatever does get delivered
Neocons want to starve us like Gaza.
Been working on it for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSll...
It turns out the 'laborers' ran off to summer camp (encampment).
Not voluntarily
I'm fine with this because I have accepted getting through this will be extremely painful and people, especially politically ignorant people, are going to need to suffer a good deal to cause the upheaval now needed to end things. Coulda been prevented but people rode the crazy train past the stops
TRUMPLAND A food shortage from US farms WILL RAISE PRICES.
July already saw a 38% jump in the wholesale price of vegetables.
My freezer is packed for this very reason. Still stocking the pantry. Very thankful I have this option.
You’ll get food from Canada and Mexico. We have lots of food and labour.
Assuming we even accept it from Canada and Mexico to begin with.
And that tariffs won't make it unprofitable for Mexico and Canada to ship anything to the US.
In the case where usa is facing food shortages (unlikely imo) then the prices usa wud b willing to pay will be fine for non-usa suppliers.
Would Trump be willing to call a real national emergency and allow his pet project to cease in order to allow food to be shipped in though, especially if such an emergency wasn't going to win him any political points with his supporters.
States will begin going around the feds.
Yeah I'd like to see that. I've heard nothing about my state doing anything
States’ rights used to be a rightwing thing. In trump era, it’s just anti-trump.
Brave Little State had an excellent podcast on the history of smuggling stuff from Canada into Vermont... 🫠
We might need to do that again, since Project 2025 planned this shortage for "mass starvation" purposes
The RW plan is DEATH for the poor old & sick to get underground as fast as we can for the rich. They know COVID is bad which is why they're going to keep those vaccines from everyone-those put the poor & average on the same level as the rich & they bought this world NOT to share & we let them do it!
Not sure about your exclamation marks, as I'm a #pwLC (and unwittind Covid expert) rounding out my third year of descent into post-viral disability, but yes, of course. This, too. But listen to Brave Little State, anyway, and support public radio. ✌️
Chunk of the country is in persistent drought conditions, terminated assistance programs, slashed price supports & export reductions have left crops not worth the effort to harvest. Cattle are being taken to market smaller & in fewer numbers in an effort to save balance sheet.
Not to mention the decimation of the FDA and Dept of Ag. Bird Flu, Screwworms, Fire Ant infestations in imported items, and citrus greening. Agriculture and the food supply haven't been this precarious since the Depression/ Dust Bowl.
Crops will rot and probably have already!
And who will get the farmland? Billionaires? Trmps foreign supporters?
I started my trump starvation garden the moment he was elected.
I learned from my folks to have a ‘pantry’ of mostly non-perishables on hand. It’s gotten me through times of unemployment and medical bills. Parents, set the example and teach your kids well.
It already is.
But profit for a J.D. affiliated corporation that buys farmland from farmers facing bankruptcy. Looks like enclosure time in Britain tbh.
Wait till the hoarding starts
It's gonna be worse than 2020
Note that farming collapse is written in project 2025, intended to cause mass starvation
Why wouldn't a country invade if all the soldiers and people are starving? Plenty of countries have their own nukes to counter the US'
they would need to have a land base. unless you think mexico or canada are going to invade? maybe Russia would invade Alaska and work from there?
They will not be starving soldiers. They need them for the takeover, the civilian population will starve though
Blocking anyone who reposts this saying "this is because of Russia" No im not shilling for russia but Russia isn't the reason why this is happening. Please fuck off with your conspiracy shit
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Banks are next.. hence the recently signed genius act… fdic falls, crypto & hedge funds are secured first, not our bank accounts
Yup. Crypto is the way the billionaires are transferring wealth to themselves
Such a great business man.🤡
Rationing and such; fresh fruits and veggies will be luxury items msga making scurvy great again
The sad thig is, those "farmers" knew what he was like. They were told what he was going to do, and some of them still voted for him. Now, thanks to them, all those who didn't have to face the same consequences
Nailed it!
Trump LIED. Nothing new there. Border czar Tom Homan says there will be 'no amnesty' for undocumented farmworkers. So my question is who the fuck is going to pick fruits and vegetables, is Maga going to do it or do they think we should just fast? Fuck frump. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
What a disgusting fat ass foot soldier. May he rot.
With ICE chasing the farm workers in the fields and deporting them, who the hell does the fucking government think is going to pick our fruit and vegetablesl crops? The brainless illiterate morons who voted for this shit? That's what I want to know. ktla.com/news/califor...
I'd rather see the Nation Guard picking crops than picking up garbage.
*National Really, autocorrect?
MAGA should learn to get soiled.
In my state it's beef pork and Ethynol
If Trump had waited until the fall harvest was over, I think a lot more people would still be in denial about how ICE raids are hurting America because the impact to our food supply wouldn't have happened until next spring. Then again, that would have guaranteed the midterm wins we need. 🤔
Everyone Remember it affects pet food as well.
glad to hear it, that could finally cause an actual revolt
This is by design, vance is set to profit from the sale of farms.
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We'll build Victory Gardens, like back in the old days. I have a book somewhere about that.
Sucks that a very large chunk of the country live in apartments with no way to possibly build a garden, because they don't get a backyard or something.
True. Some neighborhoods have a neighborhood garden.
Fun fact. We could limit farming subsidies to farms who a) produce crops for human consumption, b) employ x amount of employees, and c) do not belong to multinational corporations, as a measure to support American owned farms and American farmers. We don't. That is on purpose.
Get back to us WHEN it happens. These threats keep having a weird way of not materializing in the prophesied manner and *this* is one the reasons why no one takes them seriously.
Ah! Kinda like the “threat” that trump poses a serious threat to democracy? So, he didn’t take over the power of the purse from Congress and install lackeys in the Supreme Court who kowtow to his every desire?
He hasn’t used Executive Orders to skate around the limits imposed on the Executive Branch by our Constitution? He hasn’t occupied cities with Federal military forces? He hasn’t pardoned people who assaulted police officers on January 6?
He hasn’t sent masked people out to abduct people who have more skin pigmentation than he does and disappeared them without any proof that they are “violent criminals?” He hasn’t kept the Epstein files from the public after swearing that he would ensure their release?
Despite your handle and image, you are probably a person who lives comfortably in his white, christian, cis-gender, heterosexual privilege and has limited ability to see that trump and his sycophants are destroying America’s democracy, economy, and position as a global power.
Try watching the news coverage from non-USA sources. The USA is not trusted. The frequent capricious changes in policy and withdrawal from established treaties has destroyed our credibility throughout the world. This is irreversible.
No future administration (if one is actually permitted to exist) will be trusted to abide by the treaties to which it states it is a party. But yeah, none of the fears expressed by the non-maga folks have come to pass. Just a bunch of crazies proclaiming that the sky is falling.
mutual aid could save us. straight forward sharing and cooperation. from the haves to the have nots. you make more money than you can spend in a lifetime? i need help! a bunch do! makes it easier to go to food banks when i can pay other bills or get meds ca: $mphighaf
The Farmers should have voted for the qualified and experienced candidate not the felon. Many of the farmers mid west and south are racist and misogynists people and choose not to vote for a black female president. Unfortunately they are getting what they deserve.
Yes, but all of us will suffer for it. The corporations who own the farms are not simply going to put money into them. They will cut their losses. Eventually, there will be minimal land actually being farmed and we will experience true scarcity. It is time for everyone to plant “Victory Gardens.”
i tried this summer the only things to grow were tomatoes and Beans. did well with them though.
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That is part of the sock scheme. Food insecurity.
Both
I think of all the neglected animals.
Can you share your sources? Would like to read about it. Sounds troubling.
Farmers should not be bailed out the consumer should get a bail out. This is sadly what most farmers voted for they knew they were going to lose workers but the hate was just to much 😥
While I agree with you in spirit very much on this, if the farmers go down too hard, we all go hungry. We as a society REALLY need to work on considering the consequences of spite before we get too far down that road. Punishing them by starving our families isn’t a good plan.
No, not at all. We shouldn’t be deporting people who work here. Farmers should be smart enough to understand that. But being angry about either of those isn’t going to be improved by hunger on a mass scale. I don’t have a solution. I’m not setting policy. I just hope people think before they act.
The status quo solution is for farmers to keep voting for MAGAs or similar, and then, to expect to bail them out every couple of years or so, even as the world burns because of their rural old white guy choices, and EVEN THOUGH A LOT OF FARMS ARE NOW OWNED BY CONGLOMERATES and foreign interests.
You're saying utilitarianism obligates us to keep bailing them out. But can we at least be pissed off by those socialism-for-me-but-shit-sandwich-for-thee folks?
And don’t get me started on factory farming. The pork and chicken CAFOs in the Midwest are an environmental & public health time bomb that’s not a question of if it goes off, but when.
But the farmers are such crack business geniuses that they're putting themselves out of business, even with all the subsidies. Then large ag corporations (or with ag as a side gig) take over, and then THEY get the subsidies. If you want bananas and coffee, you'd better make a trip to Latin America.
I get it, Steve. You’re preaching to the choir here. I spent the first 35 years of my life in Iowa and Illinois. It’s not pretty.
Then I don't need to tell you about the ironic effects of the tariffs. Sayonara, Nebraska soybean farmers.
It's hard to blame the rural farm family kids for wanting no part of that.
Oh for fucks’ sake yes! I lived around these people 30 years ago, they’re unreasonable, stupid, bigoted, & totally willing to use issues to their own sleazy advantage. Not defending them, I’d love to see them pay the cost for their actions. Unfortunately they have a commodity we all die without.
And yet, with all the subsidies and all the bailouts, they're still going under and their land goes to conglomerates or overseas financiers. Sometimes their fertile fields become housing tracts. You get scammers like former Rep. Devin Nunes, a "farmer" scamming the system, and many more of his ilk.
You don’t have to tell me. I live a couple hundred miles from Nunez’s former district in CA, & also strangely have family in NW Iowa where his family relocated to dodge the heat from his congressional terms. They’re scum. All of them. The Nunez family relocated to very near Chuck Grassley’s farm. 🤔
I seriously doubt that Nunez has the slightest idea how to milk a cow, much less, crank up the machinery. He's a purebred scammer.
Now some are ready to bail out of farming because they have to get up to milk the cows and feed the chickens and shovel the shit, work they see as beneath them and their white asses, because now they can't hire "illegals" to do the hard jobs, with long hours, for lousy pay. Who's picking the fruit?
He bailed them out last term as well!!
he bailed them out but only the big farm corps actually got most of it. small farmers got the short end.
one farmer got $483 "Greener Pastures"....it all went to the corporations
i believe this. he is only in it for the corps. if the tariffs get refunded the corps will get the refunds and we will still get higher prices. those prices will never come down for us.
Truth!!
And, yet, they voted for the #TangerineTurd again.
And now farmers in my state are whining about having to get up at 4:30 for chores because there are no workers. I mean...I come from dairy farms on both sides. That's part of the deal?
Bailing out consumers will not create more food.
Watch The Grab on Hulu. That's what they want for small farmers to be forced out. Land and water are the new oil and gold. They want our resources.
That's one way Putin maintains control of Russia
TIME TO CALL FOR A generalstrikeus.com UNTIL 47 AND VANCE RESIGN.
Tomatoes are $1 apiece. I'm going back to buying eggs.
Unfortunately, true.😔
And the rich will buy the land for cents on the dollar.
Come visit me in Dixie county. Even the Walmart (which serves 4 counties) is running out of products. Already happening.
Suffering will bring people to the polls.
There won't be any polls.
As a grocery employee, I'm scared for us. People already treat us like shit. We were constantly attacked and abused in 2020. It's gotten worse and worse. Please dont take your frustrations out on grocery employees. We're doing our best to keep everyone fed. (Meant for general people)
i have got to say in my area I didn't see anyone yell at the employees. the stores in my area did their best. my local store even split the 50lb bags of pinto beans and rice into small 2lb ziplocks so everyone could get some.
I just don't use grocery stores as there isn't a point in doing so. Leave your house for higher prices than amazon.
Okay but supporting Amazon is directly funding the oligarch that owns it. Aldi and trader joes are cheaper than Amazon. I know cuz ive worked at all the stores. Plus, you can pick out your own produce. Just go to your local grocery. Support local business.
I can see it when I do my weekly shop. The harried and worn out expressions. Customer after customer bitching about prices . . . Thank you for doing the work that keeps society moving. PS Hope you are unionized.
Thank you, truly. Im not at my store but im hoping one day.
I'm sorry dude, I love my grocery workers even if I'm being ripped off. I'd rather pay higher prices so you make more directly rather than subsidize big companies and multinational agriculture corporations. If 9 bucks for a dozen eggs is what it takes for you to make a living wage I'm in.
Send in the National Guard!
Corporate farming is dizzy with joy…
I saw bare shelves at Dollar Tree to day.
Same at Home Depot last weekend, no fall merchandise or flowers.
Cuts to SNAP & food bank grants being cancelled also directly impact fams.
Maybe they should stop attacking all the countries who have food to share then
Food from other countries will be tariffed, and I won't be able to pay that price. All the food I buy, is grown/picked/packaged in America with illegals. Now, most are being picked up and deported. This food now will be more expensive.
More expensive is better than no food at all. The tariffs are illegal and should be reimbursed.
You would think!
Thoughts and prayers for electing and idiot.
The rich will grow fat on our demise. As usual in oppressed third world countries.
When you deport the farm workers and put a tariff on incoming fruits and vegetables what do you get? Less produce and higher prices.
Details about what is happening: foodprint.org/blog/how-the...
I believe it’s also intentional. The felon’s rich buddies will buy the farms for pennies on the dollar just in time for a new guest worker program that will effectively let them keep laborers from South America as slaves.
Or anyone they want to punish for being educated, or improperly healthy, or...
Been saying for a long time. If you're not producing some kind of food in a garden, or pen, you will have nothing of value to trade with people who are. Soon. Much sooner than anyone expects.
Good. I suggest eating the wealthy. Poor people taste like McDonalds.
And high prices…it’s already started where I live. And the powers that be need little reason to raise prices. Any old excuse will do.
My grocery bills are already 60-75% more than they were at the beginning of the year. And I don’t think the full effect of the tariffs and labor shortages has hit. It’s now cheaper to buy at our local farmers market.
Yes. How long will it take for middle America to realize this administration has nothing to lose by creating massive poverty, sickness and starvation? That is the plan. Make America Great Again means mostly empty, the few survivors are submissive, and parcels of land are up for bid.
Yep, I just ordered Instacart the other day. Almost every item I chose was out of stock, and we had to sub.
Gosh, I wonder who is going to buy all the beautiful agricultural land the bankrupt farmers will be forced to sell?
Repost please
Where’s the promised automation that’s going to replace the worker?
I sense it coming, but can't put it into words. I very much want to be wrong.
It’s all intentional. Large corporate Ag companies want that land and Trump has been paid to deliver.
This is what they wanted. A complete breakdown of societal norms so they can declare martial law. They really screwed us. Bastards.
No one ever explains what is currently preventing them from declaring martial law now. The idea he needs an excuse implies you think that, if he did it now, the regime would collapse and he'd be tossed out. Which is utter fantasy. NOTHING prevents him from doing it now and he'd be immune.
The regime needs MAGites to believe for as long as possible they're only going after the woke so they'll remain devotees while democracy is gutted via perverting the current system until, b4 they know what hit, the police state & martial law are slipped into place against everyone & the job is done.
We'll just have to eat cake then, huh?
Small businesses are scrambling as US tariff exemption comes to an end, [but large corporations are able to bribe tRump for exemptions] www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
But the media has convinced so many that if the stock market is doing well, the country is doing well. The stock market doesn't measure small businesses. It measures the largest companies, the companies that can bribe tRump for tariff relief.
And the food shortage will be weaponized because it’s all part of the authoritarian handbook.
Who is buying the collapsed farms?
Oligarchs.
And this was the plan all along.
JD Vance is behind this company. acretrader.com
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Selling land to China....
And Saudi Arabia…
The oligarchs will buy up the farms and the govt will force people to work on the land and houses. They already say out loud that the “able bodied” people on Medicaid will be given the work disappeared immigrants left behind. They’ll operate in true feudal fashion. Welcome to the Dark Ages part 2.
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I guess we get what most of those farmers voted for 😔
Actually, both!
It already is. Produce is nasty and super expensive suddenly at my local grocery store.
It already has. The chain fruit and veggie store I go to had about a 40% drop in stock and the prices have jumped considerably for what they did have on the shelves.
then prices will go up, supply & demand, non?