100,000 Italian farms are on the verge of closure due to skyrocketing production costs brought about by the conflict in Ukraine, major farming association Coldiretti said in a report this week.
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Number of EU country’s farms at risk of closure revealed
Thousands of farms in Italy are on the verge of closure due to rising production costs amid the conflict in Ukraine, a farmers’ group says
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40% US Farms forecast to go bankrupt!? US Agriculture going over a cliff
“Farmers are literally losing money per acre while Big Agriculture is making hundreds of millions of dollars and more.”
Chairman of the Arkansas Rice Growers Association — and 50-year career farmer — says there is a “coming disaster” unlike anything he’s witnessed, “I’ve never seen this kinda look in farmers’ eyes. It’s fear. And it’s based in undeniable facts.” "Whether this year or next year or the next, there’s a crash coming."
"In a nutshell, we are going over a cliff. Banks are forecasting farm bankruptcies at 25% to 40%, and the dirty secret is out. Everyone knows it; everyone feels it.”
“And the solution is supposedly another bailout or a gap payment the following year? Wake the hell up: Where do you think that money is gonna go? It won’t go to farmers." It goes straight to the Big Ag monopolies.
Bailey Buffalo, 6th-generation farmer, is calling it quits: "Some blame the current president. Some blame the last president. Nobody is looking at where farmers spend their money. Farmers pay monopolies & have no choice."
(source)
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“Farmers are literally losing money per acre while Big Agriculture is making hundreds of millions of dollars and more.”
Chairman of the Arkansas Rice Growers Association — and 50-year career farmer — says there is a “coming disaster” unlike anything he’s witnessed, “I’ve never seen this kinda look in farmers’ eyes. It’s fear. And it’s based in undeniable facts.” "Whether this year or next year or the next, there’s a crash coming."
"In a nutshell, we are going over a cliff. Banks are forecasting farm bankruptcies at 25% to 40%, and the dirty secret is out. Everyone knows it; everyone feels it.”
“And the solution is supposedly another bailout or a gap payment the following year? Wake the hell up: Where do you think that money is gonna go? It won’t go to farmers." It goes straight to the Big Ag monopolies.
Bailey Buffalo, 6th-generation farmer, is calling it quits: "Some blame the current president. Some blame the last president. Nobody is looking at where farmers spend their money. Farmers pay monopolies & have no choice."
(source)
Grow your garden. Support your local farmers & producers. Build resilient alternative systems.
- @iceagefarmer
#WarOnFarms
AgWeb
Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms
The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change.