As they prepare to make outlays for spring planting, Iowa farmers wonder when and if they'll get promised federal payments for conservation work.

Didn’t need the psychic hotline to see this coming…

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    “A contract is a contract. We’re hoping to get farmers the money” they’re owed, Swart said.

    You elected the guy who didn’t honour contacts openly. Too bad millions or billions now need to suffer because of your vision of country.

  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    He fucked them the first time he was President. He’s fucking them again now. They didn’t learn a goddamn thing. They made their bed and now they can lie in it. Stupid fucks.

    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I will never understand how an Iowa farmer could have been okay with him. They literally depend on (usually illegal) migrant work. They can’t afford to pay minimum wage, but here they are, once again.

      • maplehill@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        I don’t live in Iowa but have a small farm and live surrounded by farmers and ranchers. You have to understand that these people have the tiniest of perspective to the world. They spend almost their entire lives on one property, rarely go anywhere due to the nature of farming, and constantly have right-wing radio on in the truck and the barn and fox news on at home. You combine that with limited education across multiple generations and you have a group of people perfectly suited to consistently buy into propaganda and almost never able to identify things that will eat their face in the end.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          Oh I know, I grew up there surrounded by them. You’re right, that’s exactly how it happened, but I don’t let them off the hook for it

      • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        I’m less sure about the migrant worker in Iowa’s case. I think Iowa is mostly corn and soy, which have been machine-picked-and-processed for close to 100 years now. I’m sure that some migrant labor is being used, but one automated combine can pick A LOT of corn in a day.