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TreasonousBastard

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11. Modern farmers aren't the shoeless hayseeds we thought about for years...

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Thu Oct 22, 2020, 01:01 PM

Oct 2020

Planning a $300 million plant means you know a lot more about finance, production and markets than your average MBA. But, they still think like your typical wildcatter.

I'm thinking they're betting trade wars will pass by a lot sooner than environmental restrictions like water consumption and and pigshit pits will.

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Farmers Stick With Trump, Despite Trade-War Pain [View all] question everything Oct 2020 OP

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But don't you dare raise taxes Walleye Oct 2020 #8

And yet, they are supposed to promote self reliance, rewarded by working hard question everything Oct 2020 #10

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" thank you sir, may I have another?" Walleye Oct 2020 #6

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Modern farmers aren't the shoeless hayseeds we thought about for years... TreasonousBastard Oct 2020 #11

They don't even get how they are being played, as well. Newest Reality Oct 2020 #12