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American farmers unable to sell their product (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] 124 points 9 months ago (16 children)

'recent development beyond our control'....

Yeah this happened by itself and was totally unpredictable....

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  • [โ€“] 76 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    At least they're trying to feed people with the unsold produce..

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  • [+] -17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They're dumping it or selling for a lower price to farmers.

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  • [โ€“] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I thought most people in Idaho voted for this.

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  • [+] 52 points 9 months ago* (4 children)
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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Rexburg is a college town

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Why aren't people eating potatoes? Is this just the demand drop from Canada?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago

    I know that your comment was sarcastic, but Canada supplies a whack of potatoes to the US annually. Nearly 2.5B in frozen French fries alone. There is a marginal potato trade the other way, nominally in processed products. Like Stonemill Kitchens amazing red potato salad, which I'm not allowed to fucking buy because its American and I'm craving the shit out of that stuff.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago

    At the beginning of the year there was a donation of 4.000 tons of potatoes in Berlin. Apparently it was a redicously good harvest of potatoes and the price fell so much that it wasn't profitable to even sell them anymore.

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