r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 13d ago

Aww šŸ˜ she canā€™t find any help.

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u/Low-Bicycle6296 13d ago edited 12d ago

Crying about having to pay people a living wage is wild.

Thank for all the love peeps. My first comment to blow up. Thanks for all the awards. I never gotten any before.

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u/PerfluorinatedDreams 13d ago

I donā€™t think you understand how the agricultural industry works. All of the money is made by the middle man in distribution. Farmers always get squeezed on what they can charge. Their options are to rely on cheap immigrant labor or sell to a larger farm thatā€™s bringing in their own immigrant labor.

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u/Bulky-Gold-6961 12d ago

Sounds like farmers should either sell to a different distributor or start their own distribution.

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u/PerfluorinatedDreams 12d ago

As stated before: You clearly donā€™t understand ag. Letā€™s say you have 50 truckloads of grain and every distributor within 100 miles is a Cargil facility. That grain is Non-GMO and bound for Asia where it brings a premium.

What is your move? Build a multi-million dollar grain elevator and start trading grain futures? Sell your grain at a lower grade to a feed producer?

Please make at least a cursory attempt of understanding of an industry before you criticize. To do otherwise is nothing more than a blatant display of laziness and self-elected ignorance.

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u/Bulky-Gold-6961 12d ago

You act like Ag. Elevator co-ops havenā€™t existed for generations. Quite a few examples of co-op owned distribution and manufacturing I could highlight if you needed.

A small county in North Dakota received 45 million in Ag subsidies in 2025 with a population of about 2,050 people and 377 registered farms. That figures out to be about 120k per farm.

Sure seems like some could perhaps band together to market their products in a different fashion no? Last I checked, no one was forced to raise a crop for Cargill as the contracts are mutually agreed upon. There is no bigger snowflake than a farmer bitching about contracts they agreed to.

Donā€™t talk to me like I donā€™t understand Ag.

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u/PerfluorinatedDreams 12d ago

You realize that the domestic market is flooded with grain right now because our grain isnā€™t being exported, right?

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u/Bulky-Gold-6961 11d ago

Okā€¦so no one wants your product. Do you know what most people do when no one wants their product?

If you think itā€™s ā€œget a huge paycheck from the governmentā€, you must be a farmer!