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Walleye
(42,877 posts)progressoid
(52,177 posts)
patphil
(8,384 posts)Seems that 259 number is from April1, 2024 through March 31, 2025.
Read the corrections.
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/07/farm-bankruptcies-this-year-already-exceed-2024-levels/
Chasstev365
(6,491 posts)THEY VOTED FOR TRUMP IN BIG NUMBERS because they couldn't vote for a talented, amazing woman who happned to be multi-racial.
To use an agrarian/biblical term: You reap what you sow!
Blue Full Moon
(2,943 posts)JD Vance's company buys bankrupt farms. The tech bros wants the farmland for cheap so that they can build more data centers.
Buns_of_Fire
(18,860 posts)is making accommodations for their eventual repurpose as low-cost housing when the AI fever breaks and all the bros have taken their billion-dollar-bath.
erronis
(21,677 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(18,860 posts)Once the "I-didn't-vote-for-this!" MAGAts have been digested, the leopards will be looking for a new food source.
Blue Full Moon
(2,943 posts)Fully automated. They have known this day would come. So how did they plan for it? They didn't. Their solution is to kill as many people as they can. Death cult Christians are more than glad to help them out.
progressoid
(52,177 posts)
sop
(16,525 posts)I think that was Trump's plan all along.
Auggie
(32,625 posts)by large family farms and farms owned by corporations and private equity farms.
Less quality oversight, more pesticides, higher prices, more mechanization ....
and I'm probably going to lose a client.
No Schadenfreude here.
Joinfortmill
(19,256 posts)bluescribbler
(2,431 posts)the King of bankruptcy.