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In reply to the discussion: My brother, an Iowa farmer WHO VOTED FOR BIDEN, [View all]NQAS
(10,749 posts)53. It has always been thus
Costs go up. Sometimes they come down.
Demand goes down. But then it goes up.
The weather? Increasingly unreliable.
Raw materials. Availability often in flux.
Customers? Fickle.
Competitors? Always.
Sometimes its politics, mostly its economics. Easy to blame parties or presidents. But not everything is within governments ability to control.
Add in covid and stir.
Wont change my vote in 2022 and beyond.
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Well, WE KNOW the truth and it's still got wiggle room to bring the brother around.
TigressDem
Nov 2021
#47
Iowa farmers didn't like the China tariffs Trump put in after voting for him +9% in 2016 so
ZonkerHarris
Nov 2021
#30
And yet he uses language like Biden needs to "wake up" that is associated with Fox talking points
ZonkerHarris
Nov 2021
#32
Not to worry. Iowa farmers, like coal miners, always get plenty of attention and assistance.
Scrivener7
Nov 2021
#37
An organic farmer or someone who's selling genetically modified Monsanto poison?
traitorsgalore
Nov 2021
#66