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angrychair

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10. Plus Congress added more stress

Sat May 16, 2026, 07:18 PM

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On farmers by passing a bill to allow 15% ethanol in gas all year around.
This will be a significant turn of events as the pressure increases on corn farmers to grow more fuel grade corn (called field corn)
(I think it's important to mention here that corn for ethanol, field corn, is very different than sweet corn and the vast majority of corn grown is already fuel/feed grade because it's more profitable)

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Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices [View all] BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago OP

80% of all farm counties voted for Trump. Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #1

Yup. Chickens coming home to roost. Joinfortmill 20 hrs ago #2

Chickens voting for Col Sanders. Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #3

Who now appears to be Chinese. ananda 19 hrs ago #6

Half Chinese half Russian Irish_Dem 3 hrs ago #40

Yep. Great - more corporate megafarms on the horizon. Good job, Republican voters. Beartracks 11 hrs ago #32

GOP also got rid of their cheap farm labor. Irish_Dem 7 hrs ago #33

Republicans suffer from the myopic idea that everything isn't connected. n/t Beartracks 4 hrs ago #36

Unfortunately they're taking us down with them. yardwork 3 hrs ago #38

Yes the farmers and other MAGAS screwed all of us. Irish_Dem 3 hrs ago #39

Oh man, if only somebody would have warned them that voting for Trump would be bad for them... RockRaven 20 hrs ago #4

None of them figured it out popsdenver 17 hrs ago #13

But "Her laugh" would've been so much worse durablend 17 hrs ago #20

Oh, and Hillary's emails! Justice matters. 12 min ago #41

Learned nothing from the first Trump go around. paleotn 15 hrs ago #24

Last fall the head guy from the soybean farmers association was making the rounds RockRaven 15 hrs ago #27

Funny you should say "Jesus Christ!" -- He seems to be the reason they think they need to keep voting Republican. Beartracks 3 hrs ago #37

Will they wear their MAGA hats to their foreclosures? dem4decades 20 hrs ago #5

Thanks to Trump Bluestocking 19 hrs ago #7

Gee, and what party was in charge during the 1980's? Bluestocking 19 hrs ago #8

Read my mind!! BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago #11

So the party of "Greed is Good" is eating your young? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING?? Maru Kitteh 19 hrs ago #9

Plus Congress added more stress angrychair 19 hrs ago #10

Not sure that popsdenver 17 hrs ago #15

You are correct Miguelito Loveless 17 hrs ago #17

I went well over popsdenver 17 hrs ago #18

Free face-eating leopards to Trump voters! sakabatou 18 hrs ago #12

Small farms will be bought up by big agra business and you will PAY THRU THE NOSE !!! for groceries Stargazer99 17 hrs ago #14

Most voted for the Child Rapist Miguelito Loveless 17 hrs ago #16

Vote harder for Republicans next time durablend 17 hrs ago #19

Won't Farmers for Trump help them? live love laugh 17 hrs ago #21

They can sell their farms to China JI7 15 hrs ago #22

That's Xi's idea not fooled 13 hrs ago #29

Why it matters? Icanthinkformyself 15 hrs ago #23

Northeast Iowa was 57 percent for repub congress JT45242 15 hrs ago #25

It's very interesting out here UpInArms 15 hrs ago #26

Prices of... well... *everything*... next year will be wild. RockRaven 14 hrs ago #28

Well that's a shame isn't it fujiyamasan 12 hrs ago #30

This message was self-deleted by its author bmichaelh 12 hrs ago #31

It's not just that they were warned. SamuelAdams 6 hrs ago #34

Watch supreme asshat Sen Roger Marshall in Kansas. Voted for everything to hurt farmers Bengus81 5 hrs ago #35