Trump’s Tomato Tarrif

[Missouri_Mike]

Farmers Urge Action on Ag Labor Shortages - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST

North Carolina grower Faylene Whitaker shares with Congress how H-2A workers keep her farm running. She says without them, there would be no workforce—and no harvest.

www.aginfo.net

Have you ever been on a farm? Or done any work on one? Met any farmers? Have you ever been outside a neighborhood that the homes are on property larger than 1/8 acre?

I don’t think you have. Everyone around me, of which I lease farm land is very happy how things are going. The sales prices aren’t going up yet but the competition is being depleted and sales of all products are going up. Nobody is having to fire sale their goods due to foreign farmers flooding the market.

The only farms being hurt are the giant corporate ones. And nobody should give a **** about them. If you run a farm from New York in a suit I want you to go bankrupt. And take Monsanto down with you.

 

[Yarddog]

Tomatoes were pretty easy. I used raised beds which were mostly covered with plastic anyway. I always kept the weeds down by just dumping more horse compost around their base with a little wood ash and bone meal thrown in. Out of this world beefsteaks and other indeterminate varieties.

How many horses did you have to compost to make one that big????

 

[toobfreak]

How many horses did you have to compost to make one that big????

That's just a picture off the web, but I grew em pretty big. I always grew the indeterminate type. We went a few miles from us, got horse manure for free from a farm, brought it home and composted it with grass cuttings, stuff from the garbage, then threw it around our nitrogen-loving plants for mulch and fertilizer.

At season end and in the spring, it got tilled in to enrich the soil.

 

[konradv]

Looks to be working as planned.

Trump’s Tomato Tariff Delivers: Struggling U.S. Farmers See Immediate Boost

Trump's tomato tariff helps struggling U.S. farmers, boosting prices and demand for domestic crops.

townhall.com

I think the reason the left struggles so hard not understanding how this is happening is they’ve never been good at economics to begin with. If they were they wouldn’t be socialists.

Two days, that’s how long it takes Trump to turn things around for our own farmers.

Boosting prices was the plan? During the campaign Trump talked about lowering grocery prices.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

That's just a picture off the web, but I grew em pretty big. I always grew the indeterminate type. We went a few miles from us, got horse manure for free from a farm, brought it home and composted it with grass cuttings, stuff from the garbage, then threw it around our nitrogen-loving plants for mulch and fertilizer.

At season end and in the spring, it got tilled in to enrich the soil.

If you want to grow a championship anything plant it in a horse stall. Without the horse of course, but if it’s been a stall for a few years it’s prime. We took over a horse operation and planted, it was amazing.

 

[Crepitus]

Yep. From 77¢ a pound up to 79¢ a pound!

Actually from a dollar or so up to around 3 now.

 

[Crepitus]

W

What the heck are you talking about? We are talking about home grown tomatoes. I see, you nothing about them.

Read the thread.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Actually from a dollar or so up to around 3 now.

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So, buying specialty tomatoes cost more. Well there’s a ******* shocker.

 

[toobfreak]

If you want to grow a championship anything plant it in a horse stall. Without the horse of course, but if it’s been a stall for a few years it’s prime. We took over a horse operation and planted, it was amazing.

I never had a horse stall, but it does not surprise me as horse poop contains all the energy from the Sun in the plants it ate. Horse poop is full of nitrogen and a little potassium.

Nitrogen feeds leaf and stem growth.
Potassium feeds root growth.
Phosphorous feeds flowers.

When a plant gets the size you want and starts fruiting (flowering), cut off all nitrogen food and go heavy after that with the phosphorous (bone meal is a good source).

You'll get amazing veggies.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I bet you will not be saying this in the winter when there are no tomatoes from the US.

Why wouldn't there be tomatoes in the winter? Ohhh you must be where it snows? Where does it snow and no one knows what a green house is? Ohhh must be Weedbrainland.

 

[justoffal]

Looks to be working as planned.

Trump’s Tomato Tariff Delivers: Struggling U.S. Farmers See Immediate Boost

Trump's tomato tariff helps struggling U.S. farmers, boosting prices and demand for domestic crops.

townhall.com

I think the reason the left struggles so hard not understanding how this is happening is they’ve never been good at economics to begin with. If they were they wouldn’t be socialists.

Two days, that’s how long it takes Trump to turn things around for our own farmers.

Yep ... I noticed the difference in the supply destination of the tomatoes at the local grocery store between Mexico and America just this month.

 

[Hollie]

Says townhall

More credible than you, Princess.

HOW LONG WILL ‘WAIT AND SEE’ LAST? Farmers’ patience with President Donald Trump could be waning as they scramble to understand and brace for a looming trade war ahead of harvest season for many major U.S. commodities.

Trump has sent out dozens of letters to trading partners — and key ag importers like the European Union, Japan and South Korea — warning them of the tariff rate they will face in coming weeks. Time is running out for the administration to prove that those threats will pay off before hurting already-struggling farmers.

Senate Ag Chair John Boozman (R-Ark.) said that farmers have had a “wait and see” attitude towards the tariffs, trusting the Trump administration’s work to get new trade deals done to open new markets. But, he added, farmers are “anxious” in light of the president’s slew of new tariff threats

You’re flailing your Pom Poms for the government run grocery stores promised by the coconut tree lady, right?

 

[Crepitus]

So, buying specialty tomatoes cost more. Well there’s a ******* shocker.

The plain romas in the top left corner are .30 each and there's about 4 to a pound.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I never had a horse stall, but it does not surprise me as horse poop contains all the energy from the Sun in the plants it ate. Horse poop is full of nitrogen and a little potassium.

Nitrogen feeds leaf and stem growth.
Potassium feeds root growth.
Phosphorous feeds flowers.

When a plant gets the size you want and starts fruiting (flowering), cut off all nitrogen food and go heavy after that with the phosphorous (bone meal is a good source).

You'll get amazing veggies.

We didn’t go that far but those stalks and the arena they spent their day in was the most amazing black soil I’ve ever seen. It’s like they pooped then drive it into the ground running around.

 

[toobfreak]

I bet you will not be saying this in the winter when there are no tomatoes from the US.

Hey dumbass: I live in the NE and used to grow indeterminate tomatoes until early November under a tent. Put a plastic tent over the tomatoes on cold days and they will keep growing until there is a hard freeze.

I used to grow other veggies like chinese cabbage, brussel sprouts and stuff under a plastic tent well into December when there was snow in top of the plastic. Keep the frost and snow off of them and certain veggies will keep growing until the air temp dips well below freezing.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Nothing better than garden tomatoes. I've watched our youngest pick one and take a bite still in the garden

We cultivated a vegetable garden in our yard a couple of years back. We ended up with the healthiest rabbits and groundhogs east of the Mississippi.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

The plain romas in the top left corner are .30 each and there's about 4 to a pound.

So you’re freaking out a pound of tomatoes costs a dollar? What the **** do you think it should be? The ******* things are planted, grown, picked, cleaned, shipped and then put on the shelves and paid the store someone to stock, run the register, keep the lights on and bag them up for you and you’re thinking a ******* dollar is too much?

You’re retarded.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I bet you will not be saying this in the winter when there are no tomatoes from the US.

If only someone could come up with some way to build a glass enclosure with some water lines in it. That would be amazing.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Yep ... I noticed the difference in the supply destination of the tomatoes at the local grocery store between Mexico and America just this month.

Luckily for all of us Mexico is going to need those tomatoes for all the people coming back home.

 

[Moonglow]

If only someone could come up with some way to build a glass enclosure with some water lines in it. That would be amazing.

Good luck getting it built on a scale needed to supply the US with tomatoes.