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Fresh Take: Will Gen-Z Have Enough Farmers To Feed The U.S.?
Forbes ^
| Chloe Sorvino
Posted on 03/07/2024 12:15:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
>> less than 5% of America’s farms are owned by non-white people
they just don’t want to be field hands because it reinforces racial stereotypes, plus the work is too hard
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:17:57 PM PST
by
rod5591
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:19:39 PM PST
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: nickcarraway
The free market would stipulate that if there was a shortage of farmers...then the value of being a farmer would go up significantly enough to fill in the shortage.
If pumping sewage into a honey wagon payed 100 bucks an hour....people would be kicking the doors down and getting college degrees in order to get hired into that “Career”.
And you know what...if enough people refused to pump sewage at the current labor rates...it would eventualy pay 100 an hour.
To: nickcarraway
Hand over farms to People of Color and women. Then complain about spreading starvation in less than a generation.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:25:52 PM PST
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: nickcarraway
The EU is trying to stop, farmers from farming and now it’s conducting Food Crisis Wargames , LOL
To: nickcarraway
Why would Gen Z need farmers when there are Uber Eats and DoorDash?
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:28:34 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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To: nickcarraway
I thought all we needed was Monsanto, Archer-Daniels Midland, and Deere.
Push a button and wait for the food to show up
To: nickcarraway
less than 5% of America’s farms are owned by non-white people
If the black people went to South Africa, they could enjoy the food produced by Black Farmers...
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:31:17 PM PST
by
eyeamok
To: nickcarraway
No worries. AI will run the farms. Robots (be they mechanical or humans with brain implants) will follow AI instruction for what to plant, how to grow it, when to harvest it, how to harvest it and how to distribute it (to right thinking humanoids only).
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:32:26 PM PST
by
Semper Vigilantis
(When a society accepts insanity as normalcy that society is doomed. )
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:32:51 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
No. Too much work.
Food will be imported.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:36:30 PM PST
by
moviefan8
(The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
To: MtnClimber
Exactly.
Electricity comes out of the wall. No need for power plants.
Sad that a lot of people seriously think these things.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:38:52 PM PST
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moviefan8
(The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
To: jjotto
Hand over farms to People of Color.. Didn't they try this in South Africa?
To: nickcarraway
More than 150,000 farms and ranches use renewable energy, up 15% since the last census in 2017. Incorporating solar panels onto open fields or buildings was the most popular method. That’s progress.It's "progress" to suck up huge tax breaks and take precious farmland out of production? In what world is that "progress"? If they are worried about not enough farmers, then shouldn't they be worried about HUGE amounts of productive farmland being used for solar and wind power? That's a much more serious issue, all caused by FedGov market-distorting policies.
In a story about whether there will be enough farmers, why do they feel compelled to discuss renewable energy? What's that go to do with anything about farming?
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:41:28 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: jjotto
There are lots of women in agriculture and have been for a long time.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:42:11 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: eyeamok
Isn’t the first thing you check on your food packaging the color of the skin of the guy who grew the food?
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:42:34 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: eastexsteve
Israel handed over extensive and productive greenhouses to “Palestinians.” You can guess how that turned out.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:43:36 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: nickcarraway
Despite diversity efforts in recent years, less than 5% of America’s farms are owned by non-white people, the same percentage reported five years prior. How do we make them stop with this bullshit?
Do people want "black produced corn and soybeans?" Are blacks clamoring to be farmers?
The few that now exist can access so much Fed.gov money, they are probably more corporate welfare recipients, than they are farmers.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:44:00 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: nickcarraway
Bug farmers are a dime a dozen.
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posted on
03/07/2024 12:45:52 PM PST
by
Track9
(If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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