Cargill is controlled by 14 billionaires so obviously the subsidy
program works well for them. The control the price farmers receive.
Cargill constructed illegal soybean elevators in the equatorial
rainforest of Brazil so that Brazil could export soybeans to China!
oops. Cargill dumped grain into Somalia via "Food for peace" as 1/6th or
15% of the local farm price - undermining the farmers that previously
had controlled Mogadishu. That's the real purpose of U.S. farm
commodities! Food as a Cold War tool to undermine local control of 100
countries worldwide.
farmers rely on subsidies and emergency relief - pretty sure they
assumed they would get another special bailout like Drumpf did last
time. Only this time it's much much worse with 30% of the export market
gone and maybe 40% of farms going bankrupt. So the bailout will have to
be Bigly.
Commodity farming is completely controlled by the world's largest private corporation: Cargill, owned by 14 billionaires relying on corporate tax welfare to "store and export" U.S. commodity crops. Cargill also built the illegal soybean elevators in Brazil's equatorial rainforest - yes a judge in Brazil ruled the soybean elevator was illegal - so that Cargill could export soybeans to China via Brazil.
So the problem of farmers voting against their interest is the problem of commodity crops relying on synthetic inputs - fertilizers from nonrenewables - and genetic engineering patents for toxic herbicides - that destroy ecology via intense CO2 emissions and methane emissions and extending monocultural death camps as "farms." - killing the soil, creating phosphorus "dead zones" in the ocean, polluting the ground water with nitrites, etc.
"methemoglobinemia in infants, a potentially fatal condition where the blood can't carry oxygen. Sources of contamination include agricultural fertilizers, livestock manure, and septic tank waste, which can seep into groundwater."
Yeah we have a crisis in farming not just in the U.S. but in Brazil and Argentina and it's the Cargill-Bayer(Monsanto)-WTO(GATT) monoculture system of death farming. Creating toxic feed for toxic hogs and toxic chickens fed to the masses to increase toxic protein intake to build toxic muscle for "real men." hahaha. It's all gonna collapse fast since the Arctic Ice is almost gone due to deforestation in Brazil for growing soybeans so Cargill's billionaires can increase from 14 to 15, etc.
small farms (under 250 acres) account for the majority of soybean farms (67%) but produce a minority of the crop (under 18%). In 2022, the average harvested soybean acreage per farm was 312 acres
ECAP is $10 billion while SDRP is $20 billion! wow.
Then there's crop insurance...$15 billion....
$44 dollars an acre for corn...no matter what the yield - just by average.
$29.76 per payment acre for soybeans.
So $9000 payment for 300 acres approximately. $2700 would be the "net income" for the farmer assuming the farmer keeps 30% of the payment.
So at $10 per bushel and 50 bushels per acre of soybeans that's $500 per acre! Costs per acre are hundreds of dollars ($600 per acre) while relief is $30 per acre...
Disaster relief could be another $100 an acre for corn... You have to have a certified crop and a qualifying event...
70% goes to the landlord and suppliers for seed/herbicide/fertilizer/equipment and the farmer keeps 30%. So that thirty percent is to cover the difference between cost being greater than price...
ECAP (Emergency Commodity Assistance Program) payments are considered farm income and are reported on Schedule F, which is used to report the net profit or loss from a farming activity to the IRS.
Congress directed $20 billion to assist farmers who suffered natural
disasters in 2023 and 2024 and $10 billion to provide economic
assistance to farmers because of expected economic losses incurred in
growing 2024 commodities. USDA launched the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program
(ECAP) on March 18, 2025, to administer the $10 billion in economic
relief. While $8 billion in relief has already been paid out under this
program, producers can sign up for ECAP through August 15, 2025.
On July 9, 2025, USDA launched the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program
(SDRP) to provide $16 billion in assistance to producers for necessary
expenses arising because of losses of revenue, quality or production of
crops due to weather related events in 2023 and 2024
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/resources/programs/emergency-commodity-assistance-program
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