They are doing to farmers what they did to cops. Push out good ones until you can replace them with what you want there. This is just another way of seizing the means of production.
Gates owns a small, small percentage of the arable land in the country, and there's no indication he's acquiring more. At all angles it looks like the guy who runs his investment did what a lot of wealthy people do, put some of it into land, because it's recession/inflation proof.
He's not though. He's the biggest farmland owner. He has around 250k acres - but even his ownership levels of farmland are a small percentage of the total farmland in the US - the total number of farmland in the US is 879 million acres. He has a quarter of a million. He's hardly a threat to farming, at less than one percent ownership. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of land to own, but it's more a cashcow (pun intended) because leasing it is pretty lucrative.
Corporate ownership of farmland is surprisingly low, according to everything I looked up when the "Bill Gates is buying all the farms!" meme started. The latest statistic is that 90% of all farms in the US are family owned and operated. The census, when it's released, should show updated numbers, but the whole "corporations own all the farms!" seems to be a myth pushed by the farm subsidy lobby. There's more foreign ownership of farmland - 30 million acres, that's leased to farmers.
There's more corporate ownership of acreage for lumber, than farming, if I remember correctly, and it was 8 million acres.
Excellent point and one more reason to learn how to grow your own food at home. Whatever unfolds will happen, but having the skills to remain off the grid when it gets ugly will likely save the life you, your family and even your neighbors.
That would be an excellent point except it takes on average 3.25 acres to sustain a person. That's over 700k sq ft of arable land for my household alone. Even with vertical planting, 16+ acres well beyond my current plot.
Look up videos and channels dedicated to homesteading. I am truly impressed at how high tech harvesting has become. I know a great channel with a family that specialized in living off the grid, growing all their food for the entire year without outside help. There's an entire community of these people in basically every video sharing site, so once you find them there's dozens of them to learn and share ideas from.
The one I watch uses jarring to preserve crops as foods year-round. I know it technically isn't OFF the grid, but glammed up farming has many ways to produce foods including freezing. The space does add up in some form however, so I do agree with your assessment.
Not quite. Farms will be owned by a small group of oligarchs who will run the state and whose puppets in government can never be voted out. It’s a subtle distinction.
Have you seen the SC lately, including Trump's 3 traitorous picks? Don't hold your breath. Cocaine Mitch and the Federalist Society bamboozled Trump worse than anyone.
Scotus is cucked. Face it our Parent's generation let us down big time. Now we are at a point where it is up to us to either to do something or just keep complaining about it on here. I personally don't want to end up like the farmers in South Africa. Believe you me its a coming. And the state will look the other way.
I wouldn't get too up in arms over this. Most farms are massive. Most families lost the farm back in the 70's.
So when we think about a farm, it's not a 80 acre plot. Big big big, multiple 80 acre fields.
Big agriculture already receives massive amounts of bribes and pay offs for corn and other commodities. So, before we all get bent out of shape, we would need to research this further.
Democrats after Civil War and the freeing of slaves, "Damn slavery got banned and now we can't force the blacks to grow our food and harvest it."
Democrats now, "I've figured it out, if we claim inequity we can force the blacks back into growing our food and farming, then if we ban fossile fuels we can force them to once again pick cotton just likeghe good ol' days"
Right. I understand they may have had some legitimate grievances over loans, but isn't that why they case was settled in 99 for $1.2B? Now they're forgiving debt 120%? That's double dipping. And you can bet they'll still want muh reparations..
I suggest any white farmer that was discriminated against should reply in kind with their own discrimination and only sell produce to white conservatives
To be fair, this might not be a popular sentiment here, but Trump was trying to do massive gibbs based on race as well. Perhaps he found it politically necessary in the racially charged current social climate, but it's still bullshit.
My guess, is a lot if this is meant for "urban farms" or "community gardens" as another form of payoff. The few operations I met years ago were run by pretty stereotypical progressives, usually white hipster types who were way into "mother gaia" and psychedelic's, a rather narrowly focused and esoteric liberal arts degree, and just generally a "crunchy-vibe dude". They all worked underneath a minority "x-studies major" who ran the thing under some kind of urban renewal program with the city, maybe even qualified for state funding?
Anyways, I imagined this is one way of paying back these types for helping steal the vote in some city center by signing up fake voters to fake urban addresses.
I keep thinking they're doing this because they want us to get pissed and take to the streets.
They would then blame it on white supremacy, then use that as an excuse to put all white people in jail, and take everyone's guns.
(I think they were hoping they'd have an excuse during January 6th but obviously they don't know how we behave so they had to pretend something else happened.)
Its not about helping black farmers or punishing white ones. Its one more step in the agenda to break our will. What happens when harvests are meager? Supply is low. What happens when supply is low but demand remains the same? Prices go up. Who doesn't have to worry about rising prices? People on gov't assistance. You know who does? People who work their asses off for stagnant wages stymied by decades of government regulations that make running a successful business more expensive every year. This isn't "reperations," this is preperation. They know the war is coming, a starved army is an inefficient army.
I've never met a non-white farmer in the US between the West coast (literally, the coast) and roughly the Mississippi river. Maybe, maybe a few latinos in California, but still would be extremely rare as actual land/ranch owners.
Oh well, I'll just claim I'm POC and have them prove otherwise, I guess. Or have my brown-ish wife do the paperwork.
I'm just going to buy from white farmers. You can thank the Democrats.
That's okay. They'll use the 30% of your money they steal at gunpoint to pay the black ones again.
I laughed at this then felt bad immediately cuz I know it's true.
They are doing to farmers what they did to cops. Push out good ones until you can replace them with what you want there. This is just another way of seizing the means of production.
Exactly. And old Bill Gates will be right there to come in and swoop up that land.
Gates owns a small, small percentage of the arable land in the country, and there's no indication he's acquiring more. At all angles it looks like the guy who runs his investment did what a lot of wealthy people do, put some of it into land, because it's recession/inflation proof.
Being the largest individual landowner in America is impressive no doubt. But I’m sure the largest corporate landowner puts Bill’s farm to shame.
He's not though. He's the biggest farmland owner. He has around 250k acres - but even his ownership levels of farmland are a small percentage of the total farmland in the US - the total number of farmland in the US is 879 million acres. He has a quarter of a million. He's hardly a threat to farming, at less than one percent ownership. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of land to own, but it's more a cashcow (pun intended) because leasing it is pretty lucrative.
Corporate ownership of farmland is surprisingly low, according to everything I looked up when the "Bill Gates is buying all the farms!" meme started. The latest statistic is that 90% of all farms in the US are family owned and operated. The census, when it's released, should show updated numbers, but the whole "corporations own all the farms!" seems to be a myth pushed by the farm subsidy lobby. There's more foreign ownership of farmland - 30 million acres, that's leased to farmers.
There's more corporate ownership of acreage for lumber, than farming, if I remember correctly, and it was 8 million acres.
Excellent point and one more reason to learn how to grow your own food at home. Whatever unfolds will happen, but having the skills to remain off the grid when it gets ugly will likely save the life you, your family and even your neighbors.
That would be an excellent point except it takes on average 3.25 acres to sustain a person. That's over 700k sq ft of arable land for my household alone. Even with vertical planting, 16+ acres well beyond my current plot.
Look up videos and channels dedicated to homesteading. I am truly impressed at how high tech harvesting has become. I know a great channel with a family that specialized in living off the grid, growing all their food for the entire year without outside help. There's an entire community of these people in basically every video sharing site, so once you find them there's dozens of them to learn and share ideas from.
The one I watch uses jarring to preserve crops as foods year-round. I know it technically isn't OFF the grid, but glammed up farming has many ways to produce foods including freezing. The space does add up in some form however, so I do agree with your assessment.
I don’t think you can move and unload a farm as easily as you can quit a job but ok.
It's just a first step. Give it time. Soon all farmers will be owned and controlled by the state.
Not quite. Farms will be owned by a small group of oligarchs who will run the state and whose puppets in government can never be voted out. It’s a subtle distinction.
That's why bill gates is buying thousands of acres if farmland
Its a shame that most Americans have no idea what is really going on.
They think its just because "politicians lack common sense"
No, its much more evil and sinister than that...
Violates the Equal protections clause.
The whole thing COULD get thrown out by the SCOTUS.
Have you seen the SC lately, including Trump's 3 traitorous picks? Don't hold your breath. Cocaine Mitch and the Federalist Society bamboozled Trump worse than anyone.
Yeah fuck the federalist society
Scotus is cucked. Face it our Parent's generation let us down big time. Now we are at a point where it is up to us to either to do something or just keep complaining about it on here. I personally don't want to end up like the farmers in South Africa. Believe you me its a coming. And the state will look the other way.
Elections no longer matter. They can piss off the people with impugnity.
Here's link to article: https://www.westernjournal.com/covid-relief-bill-discriminates-provides-aid-farmers-based-race-arent-happy/
I wouldn't get too up in arms over this. Most farms are massive. Most families lost the farm back in the 70's.
So when we think about a farm, it's not a 80 acre plot. Big big big, multiple 80 acre fields.
Big agriculture already receives massive amounts of bribes and pay offs for corn and other commodities. So, before we all get bent out of shape, we would need to research this further.
One step closer to Expropriation without Compensation. They hate Kulaks.
Democrats after Civil War and the freeing of slaves, "Damn slavery got banned and now we can't force the blacks to grow our food and harvest it."
Democrats now, "I've figured it out, if we claim inequity we can force the blacks back into growing our food and farming, then if we ban fossile fuels we can force them to once again pick cotton just likeghe good ol' days"
They can pick up wood to burn, bc that is going to be your only access to heat after the great reset.
Strike
The inbreed hedonistic children of the hedonistic children of the crooks that set-up their families for life?
Farmers need to take a stand. No more important to liberal cities.
Let them import food from foreign counties. US Conservatives will compensate you for your losses. We will insure you still make good profits.
Farmers could bring this country to its knees in just a week or two. Along with live stock blue cities would run red.
Just wondering how Bill Gates is going to pass himself off as a black farmer?
40 acres and a mule motha fucka!!!
Read early holodomor
I hear farmers are racist. WHITE eggs. WHITE milk. WHITE flour. WHITE sugar. WHITE Cotton. On and on and on.
We tried introducing diversity in the cotton industry before but yall yanks got bent out of shape about it
White cocaine. Damn the brothers in the hood gonna have a dilemma smoking that fine white crack cocaine.
This country doesn't realize how close these Lockdowns and forced mass unemployment got us to collapsing our food supply and causing mass starvation.
Pigford again
Right. I understand they may have had some legitimate grievances over loans, but isn't that why they case was settled in 99 for $1.2B? Now they're forgiving debt 120%? That's double dipping. And you can bet they'll still want muh reparations..
If you give a mouse a cookie...
I suggest any white farmer that was discriminated against should reply in kind with their own discrimination and only sell produce to white conservatives
To be fair, this might not be a popular sentiment here, but Trump was trying to do massive gibbs based on race as well. Perhaps he found it politically necessary in the racially charged current social climate, but it's still bullshit.
Trump was pandering to get votes and prove he wasn't racist.
And ultimately, it was that and the rabid Zionism that lost him my vote
City folk not understanding country folk is the exact reason we’re not a democracy but a republic. This fact isn’t well known amongst libtards
Imagine what would happen if these farmers just stopped farming for a year.
My guess, is a lot if this is meant for "urban farms" or "community gardens" as another form of payoff. The few operations I met years ago were run by pretty stereotypical progressives, usually white hipster types who were way into "mother gaia" and psychedelic's, a rather narrowly focused and esoteric liberal arts degree, and just generally a "crunchy-vibe dude". They all worked underneath a minority "x-studies major" who ran the thing under some kind of urban renewal program with the city, maybe even qualified for state funding?
Anyways, I imagined this is one way of paying back these types for helping steal the vote in some city center by signing up fake voters to fake urban addresses.
They gonna use Gatorade to water their plants too?
Its what plants crave!
They're all owned by Gates, so something tells me a lot will just fall in line when personally pushed.
Aw, come on. This same exact plan was tried in Zimbabwe and it worked out swell for them, right?
These guys voted for RINOs in the midwest for years, this is what they get.
I keep thinking they're doing this because they want us to get pissed and take to the streets.
They would then blame it on white supremacy, then use that as an excuse to put all white people in jail, and take everyone's guns.
(I think they were hoping they'd have an excuse during January 6th but obviously they don't know how we behave so they had to pretend something else happened.)
It seems extreme, but is it really?
Its not about helping black farmers or punishing white ones. Its one more step in the agenda to break our will. What happens when harvests are meager? Supply is low. What happens when supply is low but demand remains the same? Prices go up. Who doesn't have to worry about rising prices? People on gov't assistance. You know who does? People who work their asses off for stagnant wages stymied by decades of government regulations that make running a successful business more expensive every year. This isn't "reperations," this is preperation. They know the war is coming, a starved army is an inefficient army.
I've never met a non-white farmer in the US between the West coast (literally, the coast) and roughly the Mississippi river. Maybe, maybe a few latinos in California, but still would be extremely rare as actual land/ranch owners.
Oh well, I'll just claim I'm POC and have them prove otherwise, I guess. Or have my brown-ish wife do the paperwork.
They have black farmers in the south. You just don't see them bc they only come out at night. I kid, I kid.
Must be. I lived in the South for a short while, never seen one probably because I didn't venture out at night enough...
Really, I'm in "CenCal", never seen one.
Oh. One of those... and a handshake. Deporting.
Biden is pissing off the white farmers in the hopes he makes them mad enough not to plant any crops. This way we run out of food quicker.