It is a bit ignorant but I don't think you meant it in a mean way. The operations at these farms are set up for dairy. You can't just use those same facilities to change your product entirely.
Read the article, dude. Tariffs are killing the exports.
The problem is that I'm pretty sure shit isn't just interchangeable. If you build your whole business around dairy farming, imagine the costs of switching over to something else? Even that's gotta be a gamble.
The cost of switching to a different type of farming alone would probably bust a ton of farmers
But prices were the falling years before Trump was president.
You make up for lower prices with higher volume. Tarriffs kill the volume.
How were they supposed to anticipate president Trump starting a trade war and said trade war lasting this long? You can't anticipate presidential dumbassery.
By listening to him promising to do this shit on the campaign trail and voting against him because of it.
Not an ignorant question at all. When it comes to animal farming, changing animals is an incredibly costly change. When it comes to changing crops, it's less of a hit (they should be swapping crops every year to replenish the soil). Even shifting from dairy farming to beef farming (despite both being cattle, there are different breeds for each) is an expensive change.
Trump talked about protectionism in his campaign. It shouldn't have been a surprise.
That will make milk skyrocket back up and boy will their face be strawberries
Even if they try, you have ads here in Quebec saying that our milk doesn't have all the shit US milk has (as counterpoint to 'You shouldn't drink milk'.) so even if they throw more our way, people likely won't buy it.
I have to agree with this person. Who could have predicted that a racist moron who had no understanding of trade would start a trade war. Noone could have, even though he was saying it, but no one could have.
Even if you accept this fundamentally deranged premise that Trump's behavior was totally unexpected: the ideology of the party they voted for is "personal responsibility", i.e. it's up to you to succeed or fail, and you don't deserve any sympathy or support for failing to navigate the market. Why do they deserve sympathy for getting fucked over?
I don't think you underand business. Low milk prices with high volume sold = profit. Even lower milk prices with lower volume sold= massive loss. It isn't some acceleration of a trend that occurred its trump literally changing the market for Dairy farmers.
Trump says shit every day he's alive. The guy lies and talks crap constantly. If businesses reacted to every move trump made it would cause more harm than just dairy farmers. Also large business doesn't just move on a dime. Even a year notice wouldn't be enough for farmers to change their output and remain profitable.
And Trump screwing this farmers over was entirely predictable. The whole "but the leopard won't eat MY face" thing was very rea.
It isn't free market to massively subsidize dairy production either. U.S. agriculture isn't a free market system and shouldn't be.
Eh no it really wasn't. And even if the farmers had predicted trump would do this they still wouldn't have been able to change their business in time for it. Lots of booty talk in this thread.
