[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

Now Iowa farmers are whining about something else.

When President Trump was campaigning he praised farmers and promised he would not let them down. He also said he loved ethanol. Ethanol is a fuel made from corn. When people put an ethanol/gasoline mix in their cars it helps raise the price of corn and farmers are happy.

Of course, big oil companies do not like ethanol because drivers use less gasoline. President Trump and all of us good Republicans like the big oil companies. Jesus does too. Big oil makes generous political contributions to Republicans.

President Trump saw the opportunity to give big oil a break by reducing regulations. Profits of big oil went up and the price of gasoline went down. Ethanol became expensive.

Farmers are complaining because several ethanol plants have closed and corn prices are lower. They are being unreasonable again. The President still likes farmers and ethanol. But, to Make America Great Again oil companies need to make lots of money.

Farmers should button it up and support Made America Great Again.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2019/08/25/donald-trump-ethanol-waivers-iowa-farm-country-lose-support-president-election-voters-farmers/2085033001/

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

I read today that Europe is likely to knock agricultural imports from Mercosur on the head. Could this be an opportunity for grain farmers to supply the Euro-vodka machine?

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

I feel like the farmers have been the heart of America from the very beginning until Obama sat in the White House. I think he fostered in a culture of complaining about not having enough just for the principle. While he taught the people how to whine in a classy sounding way, Michelle kissed up to the farmers with her "healthy eating" propaganda. Only the strongest of faith have been able to withstand the Spiritual Onslaught brought in by the Obamas.

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

I feel like the farmers have been the heart of America from the very beginning until Obama sat in the White House.

The noble occupation of farming may have been corrupted even earlier than that. Godless liberal fool Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer. Race-mixing heathen Thomas Jefferson was a planter, and the fact that Biblically-sanctioned slaves did all the actual work doesn't quite make up for it. Heck, the first murderer himself, Cain, was a farmer (Genesis 4:2-3). The seeds of Satanic corruption were planted in agriculture and began sprouting long before B.O. was born in Kenya.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

Today on the front page of Iowa's liberal rag, the Des Moines Register, is a story about another ethanol plant closing in the state. Two of these huge political factories that convert corn into alcohol which is put into gasoline have closed.

While these plants have kept corn prices high there real purpose was to put a figure in the eye of our friends at Big Oil. The Exxons and Shells were having trouble enough before the farmers inserted the competitive fuel. Big Oil needed help from President Trump.

He helped Big Oil by reducing the onerous environmental regulations. Oil and gasoline sales went up, farmers political alcohol went down. Instead of excepting what is fair, farmers have been whining about their low prices. Trump carried these farm states and now they are making a political threat.

Farmers are saying over and over how often Trump has come to Iowa and said he loves farmers and ethanol. He was truthful. He never said he likes farmers and ethanol more than Big Oil. A bit of honesty by farmers would be most welcomed.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2019/09/15/iowa-ethanol-trump-refinery-waivers-siouxland-energy-poet-biofuels-corm-farmers-oil/2324672001/?utm_source=desmoinesregister-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero

[handmaiden]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

Big Oil is old money--really, really old money as The Lord put the oil there in the ground before the flood.

Seems to me that these "new money" farmers are forgetting that The Almighty favored Abel over Cain.


Sacrifice a few sheep instead of corn and maybe God will look upon you with favor, fellas.

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

factories that convert corn into alcohol which is put into gasoline

This has always been a very idiotic idea. If we wanted our transportation to use plants, we would all still be riding horses. Cars use oil. Get over it or get out of America!

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

This has always been a very idiotic idea. If we wanted our transportation to use plants, we would all still be riding horses. Cars use oil. Get over it or get out of America!

The farmers are back at it, sniveling about low corn and soybean prices. In the Des Moines Register it is claimed 44% of farmers are in financial trouble.

It is claimed the China trade war and the benefits given our patriotic oil industry which competes with farmers' alcohol fuel has hurt these prices.

But in the big picture, these low prices are not President Trump's fault. All kinds of problems were created by the failure to find Hillary's email server. If Ukraine had come forward with that some years back we could have convicted her and things would be prosperous and quiet.

Contributing to that was Joe Binden's son who was engaging in criminal act in Ukraine. No doubt this secretive activity is making the farm economy worse.

If farmers vote for the Democrat they are voting for Clinton/Biden corruption. They need to stick with their corruption fighting friend, Donald Trump.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2019/11/14/iowa-farmers-struggling-financially-ag-economy-downturn-trade-war/4115343002/?utm_source=desmoinesregister-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=list_article_thumb

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Farmers Are Being Unreasonable With Trump

I can't help recalling Deuteronomy when I hear about these complaints. Agricultural "experts" attribute good yields, healthy cattle, frolicking lambs, successful harvests and steady reserves to all sorts of things. Chemicals? (tick) Climate? (tick) Moisture requirements of the plants grown suited to local rainfall patterns? (tick) Efficient machinery? (tick) Adaptation to topographical variations? (tick) Suitable transport and logistics? (tick) Irrigation, marketing & trade well researched? (tick) I could go on but nowhere in any agricultural science degree will you find mention of the most important factor of all. God.

Deuteronomy 28:2-5 All these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

God also describes an agricultural sector where He is not foremost in every farmer's mind. It aligns remarkably well with the complaints we're hearing.

Deuteronomy 28:15-20 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

Rebuke: plenty of that going on. Vexation? Sometimes it seems like their eyes would pop out! Cursing – self evident, unless this is all coincidence. Christians have no need to look for fancy explanations because in The Bible we have set out for us the true facts of agriculture. Very different from university claims about animal science and crop production, is it any wonder they're complaining?

God sees where crops are sown, then God sends rain. When people think they have better information than what He's provided in The Bible, the rain stops. What agricultural scientist knows how to make it start again? They don't. The best they've come up with so far is climate change. God doesn't get a look in. So no: it's not a wonder, it's not even surprising. It's exactly what we'd expect.