In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
So much ignorant hate here, as always in the enlightened misinformation age.
Typical farms aren’t corporations. They don’t dictate their profits or the wages they can afford to pay. Typical American farmers make $40-50k a year, and every year they risk going into the red or bankruptcy because produce prices and the prices of all the crap they have to buy fluctuate so wildly. I really don’t know why anybody keeps farming. Apparently “it’s in their blood”. And when any issue comes up on social media, all the memeheads emply their vast 2-second attention spans to make value judgements about who wears the black hat and who wears the white hat, thumb-typing a few decisive words of irrefutable justice wisdom.
Enjoy your lunch.
False. Median farm family incomes are $97,984 in 2023 while the median family income for the country was $80k. “In 2023, the median U.S. farm household had $1,439,138 in wealth” while the median US family net wealth was $192,000. Farmers on average are far better off than the average American. Note that corporate farm incomes are NOT included in these figures.
Sources: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-well-being/income-and-wealth-in-context https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf (page 11)
That sounds like the value of the land and equipment is included as wealth.
For one thing, we’re clearly getting our stats from different sources. For another, “household” commonly means one or two people in an urban setting and 5 or more in a farm family. So I would actually hope their incomes are above median. In any case, I srsly doubt that the people here bothered to look up anything before lighting torches and grabbing pitchforks, which was my point.