Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis.
Almost everything that could go wrong for Arkansas farmers went wrong this year, leaving many facing bankruptcy or even the closure of farms that have been passed down for generations.
A dismal global market and plunging commodity prices mean there’s little hope of breaking even, even as input costs soar because of inflation and tariffs—on top of bad weather earlier in the year.
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One wonders how many of these Arkansas farmers voted for unchecked capitalism and "small government" at the ballot box last November...
I’m going with “all of them”
Statistically it'd be ~70%.
Because they are farmers, or because Arkansas?
Rural Arkansas voters.
They elected that ghoul Sarah Huckabee Sanders as their governor
I damaged my psyche making this
Arkansas has always created its own problems
Where them boot-straps?
Who'd ya vote for, fucksticks?
Yeah, thought so. Enjoy the result. Idiots.
What a bunch of communists!
Nope, that's communism.
Perhaps the government can take their farms and centralize the land management to improve efficiency.
Imagine crying to big daddy government instead of pulling yourself by ypur bootstraps and doing a single honest hard day's work. These lazy hippie commies need to be deported to Antarctica.