"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market
"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28499504
Good. Stop using our groundwater to grow cattle food for other countries, assholes.
There could have been less disruptive ways of doing that though.
Obviously, it would have been better if these farmers had never started growing alfalfa rather than plants more adapted to dryness.
The farmers themselves could've taken that initiative, too.
Silver lining, Trump saving the planet by stopping trade… who would have guess
Oh I'm sure there's a mountain of monkeys' paws just curling up a storm somewhere.
Fucking lmao
It sucks to suck … water indiscriminately from finite aquifers to produce food to ship across the globe to feed beef cattle.
TIL the us exports alfalfa to china? What the fuck man why would you do that that sounds fucking insane man
Yes, and they're growing it in the Central Valley, using water piped in from elsewhere at great expense (though to taxpayers and other water users, not to the farmers).
This sounds so monumentally stupid I have no advice other than has anyone tried you know, not doing that? Alfalfa? Really? fuck my life bro
Oh, a broken clock struck the right hour.