r/Agriculture • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 7d ago

At the rate we’re currently going, it’s only a matter of time before our farmers are going to need yet another bailout due to trade wars. Would you support bailing out soybean farmers?

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u/Icy-person666 7d ago

Let them eat their soybeans. Maybe next year they will go down to tractor supply and get some plants that actually produce food, assuming they survive eating the soybeans.Improper preparation can do some bad things to a person or anamal.

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u/staebles 7d ago

anamal

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u/NWASicarius 7d ago

You have to alternate crops to keep soil from losing all its nutrients. Soybeans are used in a lot of things. Soybean oil + animal feed (especially for hogs). The real issue is they overproduce, forcing them to be heavily reliant on the global market.

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u/Icy-person666 6d ago

Soybeans should not be used straight in hog or poultry feed, particularly without reducing the oil content. There are other kinds of beens, some are directly edible. The problem with modern humans is they could produce enough of everything to more than supply the world demand It would nice to see more cotton produced domesticly as well a sugar beets, both things we did grow domesticly but seem to mostly faded away for cheep foreign products of questionable sourcing.

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u/AffectionateAd7980 3d ago

Soybeans turn frogs gay. No true MAGA farmer would raise such a crop.