Tractors and (upcoming) tariffs?

[npalen]

I remember traveling through the Midwest and seeing many soybean fields being plowed under instead of being harvested.

Why and when were they being "plowed under" instead of being harvested?

 

[jyoutz]

Why and when were they being "plowed under" instead of being harvested?

I said it was during the period when China boycotted the U.S. crop and they bought from Brazil instead. No reason to harvest with no market. Much of the U.S. grain and legume crops are grown for export.

 

[Duds13]

The theory is Mexico will curtail the drug traffic to have the tariffs removed
Mexico is firing back that illegal gun traffic into Mexico from the US is a big problem for them in their attempts to take down drug cartels. They want the US to step up on that issue.

With a competent administration coming in soon that might just happen

 

[bvanek]

Around here, most producers plant hybrid wild radish as cover crops and incorporate them in the spring prior to planting.

clover and alfalfa are the main cover crops/nitrogen fixers in the Willamette Valley and east of the cascades....They get a double shot, clover and alfalfa hay bring big bucks. (usually several cuttings and more leafy after the first cut ) Then they can plant other follow up crops in nitrogen rich soil..(less dependence on chemical fertilizers.) Most large farmers in eastern Oregon just stay in hay but the Valley farmers usually rotate.

 

[arrow]

For sure you’re correct. I was just explaining that it also has a connotation and usage that isn’t negative when referring to SS and Medicare.

Absolutely and thanks for the reminder

 

[WM75Guy]

Our cotton crops in the Texas Panhandle have been plowed under the last 3 years due to lack of rainfall at the appropriate times. Too expensive to harvest for what little return there would be. Covered by crop insurance. It's called farming the mailbox.

 

[bvanek]

Mexico is firing back that illegal gun traffic into Mexico from the US is a big problem for them in their attempts to take down drug cartels. They want the US to step up on that issue.

Likely the cartels are both supply and demand for the guns....Get rid of the cartels and the problem will get addressed at it's source, including deporting the facilitators in the supply chain from the USA.... but will take time given the entrenchment allowed for many years in Mexico and the extremely poor policy in the USA in the last four years.
The open border gives the cartels the sources in the US (including foreign adversaries) If Mexico agrees to enforce their border and close it to illegal immigration both in and out then a serious resolution might happen.....Political posturing just kicks the can. New sheriff coming in, so expect something serious this time at least on the US side.

 

[LouNY]

Our cotton crops in the Texas Panhandle have been plowed under the last 3 years due to lack of rainfall at the appropriate times. Too expensive to harvest for what little return there would be. Covered by crop insurance. It's called farming the mailbox.

Many times they have to calculate the cost of the crop insurance compared to the value of the crop.

 

[5030]

Crop insurance is paid by guess who and IMO, that also needs to get curtailed and I suspect it will.

 

[LouNY]

The grower that desires it is who pays for it, they pay into an insurance fund.