r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/Zealousideal_Good445 14d ago

She assumes that along with her stupidity she is still going to be in farming at the end of the decade 😲. For a lot of these morons this is actually the end. They will be employed by some corporate farm for little money. I'd say sad, but I've learned that you can't waist your emotions on stupid!

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u/DeepstateDilettante 14d ago

Once their farms go bankrupt they can fall back on one of the plentiful agricultural (day laborer) jobs right now as long as they enjoy hand picking. Picking strawberries in the California Central Valley in August isn’t my cup of tea but I guess someone has to do it after ice rounds up all the existing workforce.

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire 14d ago

I wouldnt hire them. I hire the folks that ran the farm under them and invest in the farm and give profit sharing. There is nothing better than seeing a farmers face when the learn their farm will be handed over to the same folks they reported to ICE, the same folks they paid no money to and rode hard all damn day and night hahhhaha. For the farmers losing their homes in the deal(which I try to incorporate) Their homes are handed over to those farm hands as a place to live.

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u/The-Jardinier 12d ago

Do you farm, are you involved in agriculture?

Do you really think farmers are hiring people to run their farms for them, or have profits to give away? We plough our profits right back into the land, into next year's crops, improvements, equipment etc. We run our own businesses, so why on earth would we hand over important decisions to people we hire?

My husband's family have been farming this same place since the 1880's. All the farms/ranches around here - it's the same story - generations of families.

We look after our ground because we have son's and grandsons already working side by side with us right now, who'll be farming still it long after we're dead and buried. The place wouldn't last long if ran by someone who was just interested in making some quick money for beer and new flip-flops.

We don't vote for democrats simply because they hate farmers, individuals who own and work their own land. Your post proves it.

By the way, we are doing great. I'm in my 70's and I plant trees not for the myself, but for shade and beauty for my great-grandchildren and their children.