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The Deuce / Re: Da Economy
« on: Today at 11:05:32 AM »The typical pompous, elitist loonytarian perspective that I would expect from Custard.
“I got mine, so fuck the rest of the farmers who are struggling with high fertilizer and fuel costs.”
https://www.fb.org/market-intel/farm-bureau-survey-reveals-real-impact-of-fertilizer-availability-and-price
Lol couldn’t be further from the truth. I am in the fertilizer efficiency business and we have two products that allow farmers to use less fertilizer and get the same or better yields. Business is booming while we actively help farmers do more with less. They have been needing to cut back for years as we’ve seen with the hypoxia in the Gulf of America and river degradation. Now they finally have the economic incentive to do so and get their soils back into balance.
Also, I will continue to reiterate that farmers that don’t hedge their price risk on fertilizers are fucking morons. If you look towards the end of the article you posted you can see it’s mostly the small hobby farms that left themselves exposed to the increase in prices, which is exactly what I’ve been saying.
People that farm for a living and run their farms like an actual business would never allow that to happen. The funny part is that fertilizer isn’t even in short supply, collusion between the few big companies that control the supply allows them to price gouge and use the war as an excuse. Lots of companies did the same thing during Covid across all industries.


