"There is a concern that we won't ever have the volumes we had in the past in the future."
  • eleitl@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The key sentence being: English farmers aren’t alone — people are struggling to grow crops worldwide because of extreme weather.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Keep in mind, though, that farmers pretty much always complain. If harvest is bad, they want more subsidies or guaranteed prices, if harvest is good, they almost die because of all the regulations that keep them from earning even more.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        To add to that, most farms are basically industrial enterprises, these days. People are sentimental about farming because they have a completely wrong idea of how modern farming works.

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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          4 months ago

          The modern system of Big Food makes it more or less impossible for any other type of farming operation to exist. There are about 2 million farms in the US with an average size around 500 acres. For the most part, they are money-losing enterprises run by suffering families from which one of a tiny handful of food conglomerates is attempting to wring every possible abusive penny, with a good deal of success. John Oliver did a show about it, and Joel Salatin has written quite a few excellent books about the tragicomic experience of trying to run a non-industrialized farming operation in the modern United States and what an inevitably difficult clusterfuck it is on several different levels.