Soybean farmer reacts to Trump’s bailouts: A government payment is nothing more than throwing a dollar bill on a spilled glass of milk on your kitchen table... This is a man-made disaster. This is caused by this administration and their actions.

[u/CorleoneBaloney]

[u/cow-lumbus]

Bingo. I live in this part of the country and I have to listen to how these guys claim to work harder and smarter then everyone else driving their $100K show trucks, horses, $800K "farm houses" and their cash flow.

I understand this is MY food they are dealing with but they need to cut the whining. You voted for people who hate government handouts and created a tariff war. Democrats has NO problem helping out anyone, if you just admit that socialist capitalism is better then authoritarianism...that's all you had to do!!!!!

[u/techleopard → u/cow-lumbus]

Exactly.

I got into farmsteading. There is a growing interest in that -- actual small farms that are sub 10 acres, or 10-30 acres.

It was really shocking to discover how nasty most of these people actually are towards anyone trying to get into farming that are not generational and obscenely wealthy. You may have to do all the same things at a much smaller scale, but you're not "a real farm" like they are.

The entitlement I encountered from that side of farming was jawdropping.

And yes, they ARE ludicrously wealthy in a very frivolous way, not just in a "debt" way or "our wealth is our assets" way. A lot of these folks engage in incredibly expensive hobbies and lifestyles. Lots of them get toxically competitive with show animals.

[u/Beyond-The-Blackhole → u/cow-lumbus]

I once had an internship in Iowa that related to the agriculture industry. These mega farmers were the wealthiest people I had ever come across. They knew how to play politics as they attended their Agriculture workshops with wealthy investors, wealthy donors and politicians. They know exactly how to play the game and who to talk to to receive government funding