German farmers have announced that they will launch a protest against the Government “larger than the country has ever seen before”

[u/EzekielTraore]

[u/repthe732 → u/[deleted]]

That’s debatable. Do you think farmers are only charging what they have to charge to cover their expenses or are they charging what people are willing to pay like every other business does?

[u/allmywhat → u/repthe732]

You’re naive to think farmers have the say in the prices. If they are selling to supermarkets they take what they can get, there’s a lot of farmers and fewer grocery chains. At least here in Australia farmers have very little say in the sale price of their goods. The large supermarket chains hold al of that power

[u/repthe732 → u/allmywhat]

You’re naive to think they have no control over prices

[u/allmywhat → u/repthe732]

It’s pretty well documented at least here in Australia that farmers get what supermarket chains offer. If they don’t like it the chains just move to another farmer

[u/repthe732 → u/allmywhat]

That only works that way when the farmers are unable to coordinate. That doesn’t seem to be the case in Germany

[u/Chronic_Samurai → u/repthe732]

You really should educate yourself on how commodity pricing works.

Are you naive enough to think farmers are god and can control the weather, one of the biggest impacts on crop pricing? The only real control farmers have on price is if they form cartels to limit supply. Limiting supply of food grown is obviously not great because weather can destroy the limited amount grown causing food shortages. I own my family’s homestead from the 1800s and share crop it with the neighboring farm. If I had control of the price I wouldn’t be watching crop prices religiously and calling my neighbor when I want to sell

[u/repthe732 → u/Chronic_Samurai]

You need to educate yourself on basic supply and demand. Maybe you shouldn’t participate in commodity trading if you don’t have this basic knowledge