Trump and Company: Better focus on Ramping up Farming in the US...Right Fucking Now!

Too late. All the conservatives/republicans/GOP have moved their companies overseas.

Anything that does not store well in a root cellar will have to go in the deep freeze.

If it looks like the power will go out for a while, I will be drying veggies and meat for storage.

One answer is successive planting where you don't get all your food at one time. Plant every two weeks or so.

Nah we're good. Gonna have 3million less mouths to feed right?

I'm a farmer. 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Not industrial, but family farming. Livestock, produce, lumber, syrup, hay, nuts, prepared foods, etc.

You're right about one thing, this nation's current industrial agriculture wasn't designed to feed everyone, it was set up to produce commodities, to be a piece in a global economic jigsaw puzzle that delivered nothing but polluted water, stripped soil, empty calories and a population of obese morons that don't even know where food comes from.

I can't predict what is going to happen, but if things continue on the way they have been even if it's for another month, there are going to be some serious food shortages in the urban areas. The rural Americans will be fine- most of them still have the skills and at the least the gardens to provide and they all have farmers like myself in almost every community that will see to it that no one in flyover country starves.

We aren't in the midst of a pandemic, this is a coup. We are at war and not one person in 1,000 recognizes what's actually taking place under cover of a flu outbreak.

And it is about to turn very ugly, very fast.

Don't worry. Crops are already going in the ground. Ranching and farming is in good shape. All producing more than we need, more than we can store, and enough to export.

Give givernment land to the people, after X years of farming the land becones theirs.

Hemp is the best thing that could lead to our survival.




Last Edited by musashi777 on 03/30/2020 06:59 PM

Farmer or two may get it. How is that going to lead to shortages?

Ice Age Farmer. One of my favs.

Sounds good, successive planting but I am in OH so it is limited to 2.5 seasons. Although I have looked into hydroponic and aeroponic gardening.

Please also check out Charles Dowding, inventor of the no-dig method of gardening:

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With no dig, since you don't till the land, not only do you need less and less expensive equipment, you also get better soil over time and far fewer weeds. It's easier too, takes less time, and is a proven method with fabulous results.

VERY VERY good idea!! We should have been ramping up farming even before this!

Gata, I told this story before on GLP:

50 years ago a lady in my neighborhood used to bring her kids to the pool where I was a lifeguard. We chatted while the kids swam.

She and her mother were trapped behind Russian lines in East Germany during WWII. She was 8 years old.

She and her mom hid in the basement of their bombed out home.

They left only at night to search for root veggies in the fields that had been left after harvest.

They brought back leafy branches from the forest to feed the rabbits they were raising in that basement.

They lived on root veggies and rabbit meat. Eventually escaped to the American Sector and safety.

Rabbits are great for meat and fur and making top quality fertilizer.

I grew up on a farm in Montana, and believe me, you don't have to encourage any decent farmer to get farming. Every year is a fresh start and chance to put some money in the bank for a change. The thing that concerns me is the devastation to farming that has occurred to the middle of the country in the last two years. Immensely destructive flooding all along the Mississippi, followed by freezing temperatures along the northern states in early October which ruined many, many crops. Most farmers can only stand a year or two of that before the bank takes their land. I truly hope this is a good year for our Midwest farmers in particular. If not, food on everyone's plate is in jeopardy.

Last Edited by Horticulture on 03/30/2020 08:01 PM

Keep sucking the Trump GMOs and soon you will be fed the soylant.

And we can eat the hemp seeds, press it for oil, shred it and feed that to critters, clean toxins out of soil with it and loosen up the dirt with it as well!

Green for you!

That rabbit thing, my great grandparents were farmers and very old. They couldn't handle high-maintenance meat so they raised rabbits. They were easy to raise, and in pens so easy to catch and small to process.

It's tough to kill and skin a bunny rabbit, but when you are hungry...

Trump does more in a day than you will do your whole life and you pretend to give him advice, interesting.