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Botany

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2. Didn't Chairman Mao have "a great leap forward" in the late 1960s?
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 09:58 AM
Dec 2018

It was called the Cultural Revolution and it killed, tortured, and imprisoned millions.


Farmers, I LOVE YOU!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-grains/harvesting-in-a-trade-war-u-s-crops-rot-as-storage-costs-soar-idUSKCN1NQ0GA

Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar
Mark Weinraub, P.J. Huffstutter

(Reuters) - U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem - where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers.

For Louisiana farmer Richard Fontenot and his neighbors, the solution was a costly one: Let the crops rot.

Fontenot plowed under 1,000 of his 1,700 soybean acres this fall, chopping plants into the dirt instead of harvesting more than $300,000 worth of beans.

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Please let this assh*le be removed from office soon! trusty elf Dec 2018 #1
Didn't Chairman Mao have "a great leap forward" in the late 1960s? Botany Dec 2018 #2
Maybe Mr. Fontenot can unplow his field... PeeJ52 Dec 2018 #4
Mr. Fontenot can get a job in the new Trump NCjack Dec 2018 #16
The GREAT LEAP FORWARD anf the CULTURAL REVOLUTION were not the same thing. pangaia Dec 2018 #10
thanx! I stand corrected Botany Dec 2018 #12
Sometimes I think tRump's advisors are setting him up..... luvtheGWN Dec 2018 #13
Trumpspeak translation: Mr.Bill Dec 2018 #3
The problem is, the fields HAVE been leveled, and the crops have gone to waste. NT mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2018 #5
The Orange Menace is speaking to the new owners of NCjack Dec 2018 #15
Farmers, start raking dalton99a Dec 2018 #6
And now the world's biggest market for agricultural products, China, is now buying from .... Botany Dec 2018 #7
Yep. Genius move dalton99a Dec 2018 #8
The recent suffering farmers have been experiencing is the direct result Jarqui Dec 2018 #9
China will clean Americans' clocks ! pangaia Dec 2018 #11
HE's just lying to them again duforsure Dec 2018 #14
New school for farmers safeinOhio Dec 2018 #17
"...if and when a deal is completed." CrispyQ Dec 2018 #18
And Kim has already dismantled his nuclear capability, right? SergeStorms Dec 2018 #19
The unpurchased crops have already rotted TexasBushwhacker Dec 2018 #20
$12 billion Roy Rolling Dec 2018 #21
Good, then the $12B farmer bailout is no longer needed ... aggiesal Dec 2018 #22
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