a new combine can easily run up about a half million bucks. We used to do a 6 acre field, and the seed for soybeans was a thousand bucks. Used to cut and bail hay.... filling up the barrel pump cost about 330 bucks, and that was about three years ago.

It was fun, but the costs and profit dwindles for small farmers. The big farmers farm their own huge fields, other's fields, to make more of an overall profit. Let weather hit hard, and a lot of crop can get lost. Gas goes up, everybody's costs go up - the corn/soybean trucker to the mill, the farmer, the delivery of fertilizer/seed, ....the delivery out to food manufactures, the delivery of said food products to stores......

    and trying to go organic - far more expense. It wouldn't take much of the apple cart to tip over to be a huge disaster. Which, would be just another failure of this corrupt bunch of hacks running out gov now in the wh.

    I still go out and stock up a little. Here is a GREAT book you can order on Amazon. It's just excellent, about 18 bucks....

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/farming-insider-warns-coming-food-shortages-are-going-be-far-worse-were-being-told

Workers offline, costs double to quadruple on farming needs.

Cost and availability are going to be quite the challenge for many.

@cccjwh said:

My bad. Let me explain it to you. 5.7% GDP is outstanding. I keep forgetting you cult members can't understand anything more complex than a bumper sticker.

I’ll dumb it down for you:

GDP = Gross Domestic Product, the amount of goods and services produced in a country in one year.

Inflation = General progressive price increases of goods and services.

Feel free to ask me anything else about economics that you don’t understand.

@cccjwh said:

Record 14.5 million Americans signed up for 2022 health coverage under Affordable Care Act - CBS News

Washington — President Biden said Thursday that a record 14.5 million Americans got private health insurance for this year under the Obama-era health law, thanks to help from his administration.

"Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans," Mr. Biden said in a statement. "We are making that right a reality for a record number of people, bringing down costs and increasing access for families across the country."

Washington — President Biden said Thursday that a record 14.5 million Americans got private health insurance for this year under the Obama-era health law, thanks to help from his administration.

"Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans," Mr. Biden said in a statement. "We are making that right a reality for a record number of people, bringing down costs and increasing access for families across the country."

@canton-dawg said:

Maybe you should try reading bumper stickers, because understanding the economy isn’t your thing.

My bad. Let me explain it to you. 5.7% GDP is outstanding. I keep forgetting you cult members can't understand anything more complex than a bumper sticker.

@cccjwh said:

My bad. Let me explain it to you. 5.7% GDP is outstanding. I keep forgetting you cult members can't understand anything more complex than a bumper sticker.

Maybe you should try reading bumper stickers, because understanding the economy isn’t your thing.

@cccjwh said:

I guess you missed it.

@vambo said:

Annual inflation rises to 6.8 percent, the highest rate since 1982

I guess you missed it.

@cccjwh said:

U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021, fastest since 1984, despite ongoing pandemic - The Washington Post

Annual inflation rises to 6.8 percent, the highest rate since 1982

BNSF Railway.

@mld-woody said:

Yes, we need less regulation around the food we eat. Genius. 

again, you have zero idea of what you are talking about. As a farmer who has gone to farmer's markets - especially those requiring only legit local growers - some of the regulations are asinine. A friend who had a booth next to me - he was from Yugoslavia - his brother and him escaped years before - they send money home to the rest of their family - was famous for their pepperoni rolls. Except, he had to quit selling them,  because he didn't have a meat producer license. Of course, the pepperoni roll company has a meat producer license, they produce the meat. The grocery has a license to produce meat for sale.

   and other problems. He had to quit selling the baklava sp? because he didn't produce the nuts himself. Of course, nobody there produces the flour either. And I didn't produce the fruit trees I bought.

  It was worse than that. I was selling pints of blackberries and tomatoes etc, and kept selling out. I had an "inspector" give me bs about complaints I was undercutting prices in local groceries. I told him mine were actually higher than theirs, especially my tomatoe prices - because everything I grew was naturally grown. No pesticides, no artificial fertilizers, etc. He said he'd have to shut me down until the complaints could be checked into. I told him I will get an attorney to represent me for fraud and harrassment of a business.

    He got squirrely look on his face, and said - " let's just say I talked to you about it and we're good."

so, yes, over-regulation is a freaking problem with the food industry.

furthermore - there are counterproductive regulations that are strange on the flip side:

Google Answers: Puss limit in milk

answers.google.com › answers › threadview?id=62903

The contamination of the milk is measured in terms of the SCC - "The SCC amount is the Somatic Cell Counts (number of white blood cells …Leukocytes) per milliliter of milk (SCC/ml). A dairy industry rule of thumb states that cows measuring less than 200,000 SCC/ml of milk are considered healthy or not significantly infected with mastitis.

@mld-woody said:

Yes, we need less regulation around the food we eat. Genius. 

No doubt a few additional layers of red tape solve just about every problem.

WSS

@the-cysko-kid said:

Not that hard considering their base will swallow anything and every single media outlet will take up for them. 

You have a point.

@logicisforsquares said:

It will be hard to frame up that the other team are the boogeyman when people are struggling to afford what groceries are available.

Not that hard considering their base will swallow anything and every single media outlet will take up for them. 

@the-cysko-kid said:

Well there's midterms coming up soon. They need to set up the scenario where only Democrats can save you from the problems that Democrats caused. 

It will be hard to frame up that the other team are the boogeyman when people are struggling to afford what groceries are available.

@calfoxwc said:

and, I can't find Bob Evans sage sausage. Found about 12 packs of a few other types.

Manager happened by - I asked him - he said they can't get any in at all. Two other grocery stores - nope.

Whole cranberry sauce - gone.

It will get worse...

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/01/10/bareshelvesbiden-trends-as-americans-detail-how-joes-failures-have-hit-hard-n504391

Well there's midterms coming up soon. They need to set up the scenario where only Democrats can save you from the problems that Democrats caused.