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@hystonix

2 ай бұрын

🥕

@jacquest2642

2 ай бұрын

You need help you schm0ser

@therealanthonity

2 ай бұрын

no

@sickomode6440

2 ай бұрын

Betterhelp was exposed long ago

@stanb1455

2 ай бұрын

nie kurwa

Who needs farmers? I get my food from the supermarket

@RipVanWhinkle

2 ай бұрын

lmaoooo

@d20pf18

2 ай бұрын

best.

@notinterested7911

2 ай бұрын

Why are my eu dollars spent on artificially protecting me from cheaper produce from other countries

@alexj-t2331

2 ай бұрын

I grow mine lol

@XDrang93

2 ай бұрын

Good luck keeping it stocked up without them. lol

Australia has this problem where there is a duopoly they dont pay the farmer enough and overcharge the consumers as well

@samkr2221

2 ай бұрын

dude trust me even if there isnt ,farmers will protest let me give an example .. in india farmers are protesting lets see what they are demanding - withdraw from WTO - pensions ( farmers are exempted from income tax ) ( pension for 80-100 million people which if given will be 21% of budget) and icing on the cake - full debt waiver I respect farmers for growing food but this is BS

@kagaminelen51

2 ай бұрын

so does Indonesia

@Doge5600

2 ай бұрын

Yep same here in the US, only more companies.

@irahryphson8879

2 ай бұрын

They're in debt because modern farming methods bankrupt them

@GlasbanGorm

2 ай бұрын

it hasn't even begun yet. The governments need those farmers, they dont need you.@@samkr2221

First title: GIVE ME MY 0.76 CARROTS NOW!!! second title: Why farmers always win-no matter the cost Third title:how to destroy a country..using rice Edit: new title: why farmers always win

@Chris_winthers

2 ай бұрын

👍

@highbread817

2 ай бұрын

I think the most recent one is actually best It finally got my attention and seemed to pick up in the algo. It's basically common practice tho cuz attention is hard to grab these days

@altaraiser1054

17 күн бұрын

The third title feels like way too dramatic

Farmers also have the stereotype of hard-working, honest people. Most people have a positive view of them, as opposed to other professions like bankers lawyers... that would have a hard time mustering the same level of popular support.

@Jonathanizer

2 ай бұрын

Eating is more important than suing your neighbour over his ugly fence or loud dog. You'll only do the second one, if you are secure in the first one.

@Janoip

Ай бұрын

But many many arent, they make their own prices down with overproduction and see the goverment subsidies as their birth right, all the time crying about money, but have the newest gear, big house and many even 2 or 3 houses they rent out...

@nishlash4786

9 күн бұрын

@@JanoipWhat fucking farmers are you talking about.

@victory8928

Күн бұрын

@@Janoipthis is not all nor do I think most farmers. Many small farmers are well poor due to having to bleed money to afford the green revolution’s inovations (fertilisers, better agricultural machinary, etc.) look at Punjab. A region in North India who once was able to be self-sufficient in food production but due to green revolution and well india’s population explosion many farmers became deeply indebted to even be able to grow crops not even mentioning how climate change and environmental impacts, it isn’t a certainty that they will even be able to make even. This is the risk all farmers face, the more rich you intially are the better you are at taking losses which drives lower income families from farmland when it isn’t subsides, plus a lot of value goes to middle men who are needed to transport, process, store, perserve and finally get food to the shelves, which takes a ton of potential cash from many farmers especially in areas with little to no proper wage/price for farmer’s goods and even then said prices may be too low to even make a living.

Never expect a video with the title "I Want $0.76 off Carrots- NOW!!", but here we are, and I love it

@brawlaj5246

2 ай бұрын

182 likes and no comments?Lemme fix that

@2goober4u

2 ай бұрын

​@@brawlaj5246 ok

@woojoo6382

2 ай бұрын

I remember the title being that, beautiful

@GarbanzoBeansFan

2 ай бұрын

it got changed

@MatthewTheWanderer

2 ай бұрын

The original title confused and intrigued me, lol. But, I always watch h0ser videos no matter what. The new title makes more sense, though.

In Australia our problem is that the two main supermarkets buy the produce for cheap then sell it for 5 times the price. Because we only have two main companies running it all the consumers and the farmers get fucked.

@thomasgolds4585

2 ай бұрын

Bingo, that’s the exact problem. Food prices are equally too high and too low, and this is a major part of the problem

@sammyjones8279

2 ай бұрын

Seems like there could be a meet-in-the-middle where they double their buy price and half the sell price and still end up with a mark up... Buuut that would mean some Auzzie billionaire can't afford to pay off his 15th yacht or the loan on his pet kangaroo and backwards spinning golden toilet (idk what rich Australians buy...)

@dioniscaraus6124

2 ай бұрын

​@@sammyjones8279Rich Australians buy politicians

@owenglover8268

2 ай бұрын

@@sammyjones8279 our billionaires just buy up media companies so that no one can talk shit about them. But I think the gold toilet is probably true as well

@edwelndiobel1567

2 ай бұрын

What?! Only two supermarkets?! I thought it was crappy in the US with just 7 national! We have dozens of regional markets though.

“Farmers always win” Stalin and collectivization: allow us to introduce ourselves

@jennifermarlow.

2 ай бұрын

It's not collectivization, it's corporatization. There is no "collective" involved here, except for groups like Vanguard and Blackstone. And that's NOT communism, it's the opposite. It's called fascism. Look it up, they haven't changed the dictionary definition .... YET.

@TheSkyGuy77

2 ай бұрын

Famine and disease: allow us to introduce ourselves

@TinuVoicu

2 ай бұрын

Land overexploitation and deadly experimental chemicals entered the chat.

@psychoedge

2 ай бұрын

@@TheSkyGuy77 we had those before and after the soviet union existed.

@TheSkyGuy77

2 ай бұрын

@@psychoedge Cope

Sugar in the US is a bad example. Most US foods are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup which is derived from corn, not sugarcane. Corn grows all across the country.

@Jonathanizer

2 ай бұрын

Care to explain why is sugar a bad example then? The mechanism explained with this example extends to bigger markets/lobby groups such as corn. It basically works for almost the entire food sector. He never said he uses the most prevalent food or largest market shares. He explains the economics behind why farmers protest and lobby, and the general populous accepts slightly higher prices, for which sugar is imho not only a good example, it's a perfect example.

@DanielWilczek-nu7ff

10 күн бұрын

@@Jonathanizer Because it creates a perception of a larger issue that doesn't actually exist at this scale. You'll find that Corn farmers don't experience this process nearly to the degree say a sugar farmer does. It matters because we *actually* use corn syrup on a nationwide scale *heavily*, something cheap and plentiful, especially since the center of our country is almost nothing but corn and grain fields. Sugar is hard to grow, expensive, and doesn't have nearly as good of an effect as corn syrup when it comes to sweeteners. They may both concern a type of farming, but one is genuinely important where one would disappear and really only small towns in the middle of nowhere are gonna experience. Most US granulated sugar is already imported because we don't have the environment to produce it properly at scale. Sugar farmers will innately be more aggressive over tariffs as they are nearly non-existent compared to other types of farmers. So now, not all farmers protest or fight tariffs like this. Usually just the ones that end up trying to grow environmentally dead-end crops.

@Jonathanizer

10 күн бұрын

@DanielWilczek-nu7ff Your assertion that it creates a false perception of an issue that doesn't exist is wrong, these issues persist throughout the entire farming sector of the economy and in the entire developed world. Where sugar is grown or what food exactly is used in explaining the concepts of the video is not very important. Important is, that farmers have outsized political influence compared to their share of the population or their share of the economy. This political influence translates into subsidies, tax cuts and other privileges. I am not saying this is wrong, since we literally can't live without food, but it nevertheless is a fact, that it happens. We can debate whether farmers have a strong political influence is good or bad, but we can't really debate the fact, that this is the case (at least in the developed world). Not all farmers protest or fight tariffs? Of course not, but all have some kind of representation or lobby groups that do it for them. If they physically do it themselves, or have it done by proxy doesn't really change much. This is not even a criticism, in a functioning democracy everyone is free to use their voice and vote as they see fit, and that includes economic gain in accordance with their incentive structure. Some people seem to confuse this stuff. Simply pointing out, that farmers are lobbying is not a criticism in itself. It's like saying the sky is blue during daytime and people acting as if this is a kind of accusation against the sky. No, it isn't, it is just a fact of life. Of course some people then go on and criticize farmers on the basis of the fact they (as a general group) are lobbying their politicians. If you disagree with such a criticism (as do i), it is not a good idea to simply deny the factual basis of the criticism, because then you are factually wrong and will loose the argument (even though it is easily winnable). You can counter such criticism in many different ways, for example you can just say: "Every political or economic group uses their influence, farmers are just a little better at it, and it is their right to do so in a democracy." Or you can say: "Slight overproduction and stable prices guarantee stable production, and therefore a high degree of food security. If you wait a few months for a gaming console, because of a shortage, that's not going to cost any lives, but if there are food shortages, people starve." Both are valid arguments when discussing the issue. The first example for an argument is political, the second one economical, there are many more good arguments that can be made here, and which one is the best depends on who you are talking to. Denying reality to win an argument is not necessary here. No offense my friend, but your denial of the simple fact that farmers are masters at lobbying means you are ill informed, i mean just look at just the examples from this video alone, and then consider they are by no means comprehensive, just a small sample of examples to explain a bigger trend. So the "perception", as you call it, is not false, it is correct and factual and actually the main point of the video, which again confirms imho, that sugar was completely fine as an example to make this point. Works for corn too, but the concept is clearer to see, since sugar is production is so concentrated in few communities, who then put their political weight behind the interest group of sugar traders/farmers, the effect is more visible.

@whome1319

3 күн бұрын

If there was no sugar tariffs then the free marketed price of sugar could compete with high fructose corn syrup and we wouldn't be putting this crap in every single product as substitute to real sugar

everyone knows hoser was short 76 cents on his groceries and came here to complain

@pc14thenumber9

2 ай бұрын

Hoser : "Where's that cent come? Plastic bag?" Cashier : "...it's carrot.." Hoser : "...aigh't I be back next day to pay that amount. Keep that carrot then." *proceed to make video about food and farmer and make revenue out of YT vid for that 76 cent

@norwegiansmores811

2 ай бұрын

he shilled to the fraud scam company betterhelp. i think he has it well. you'd only shill such a evil back handed company if the money was right.

@Fallout3131

Ай бұрын

@@pc14thenumber9😂😂😂😂

@ilbamil262

16 күн бұрын

​@@pc14thenumber9😂😂

It's backfired in India though. Instead of switching to other crops they stick to the same over supplied crops selling to the govt. *The consequence* : The water level is depleted so much that agriculture is becoming increasingly more expensive and since the same crops are oversupplied they've gotten even cheaper creating a burden on the govt to keep buying wasteful amounts of food.

@adamheuer8502

2 ай бұрын

Ehh in India the farming subsidies are kind of essential because the old socialist government made viable jobs to mainly be only extremely high paying white collar stuff and farming jobs. If they cut all the farming supports overnight it would probably cause an economic crisis.

@quinnholloway5400

2 ай бұрын

India is cursed

@artoriassif3728

2 ай бұрын

It’s almost like the people closest to the forest only ever see the trees

@srajandikshit7590

2 ай бұрын

​@@adamheuer8502Those farmers that were protesting get exclusive subsidies and procurement deals that no one else in the country gets cuz Farmers from Punjab Haryana and West UP are big boyz

@allensnea9335

2 ай бұрын

@@adamheuer8502yeah the whole point is to not have such regulations. Open markets have made the economy prosper.

There's so much more on the line here geopolitical wise. If our food security isn't given from reliable sources like our own country (or at least a close ally) we're at the mercy of whoever ships us our food!

One thing to keep in mind is what inherently tends to happen in free market situations, which is consolidation. Once all your food is made by the same few producers, they can set price, and you can't not eat

@shubamrachappanavar2708

3 күн бұрын

Tell me you dont understamd how the free market works without telling me you dont understand how the free market works. Consolidation happens in centrally planned economies where yhe government is a bigger monopoly wheras free market allows all to compete with prices allowing for more efficiency. Take your collectivist bs somewhere else

As a Candadian I can say the Dairy Cartel is no joke. Real cheese is a luxury good.

@himesilva

2 ай бұрын

You're telling me that stuff like brie, camembert, gouda, manchego, etc. isn't pricey in other countries? I assumed it was all imported, which would make it more expensive, no?

@jennifermarlow.

2 ай бұрын

@@himesilva We can buy local cheese in Nova Scotia, and it's more expensive than the imported cheeses. It's called globalism, and our government is enabling it. Wake up!

@alexandert6489

2 ай бұрын

​@annacastro2855 we Canadians pay abit more for dairy because of milk quota however our dairy farmers are protected from things like mad cow disease and overflowing markets since if ag isn't profitable, not many people are going to do it. However loblaws like jacking prices for no reason to make more profit

@bipolarkeyboard

2 ай бұрын

Have you ever tried the no-name superstore cheese? Absolutely disgusting & whatever fillers they're using don't melt and become rubberized. Not to mention it's like $12 for 700g ☠

@nielsdelange3602

2 ай бұрын

The main problem is the environmental regulations if in Europe but also in Canada the regulations are very strict so the farmers have to spend a whole lot more than a farmer from a country where those regulations aren’t in place. If you want cheap milk and cheese you have to regulate the farmers less.

Agriculture is one of the things that even if the rest of the currency fails the government have to keep operating, since it needs people to be fed.

@evilpanky

2 ай бұрын

This is the correct answer; protectionism in agriculture is a strategic consideration for a nation.

@jennifermarlow.

2 ай бұрын

@@evilpanky Canada is building food-grade cricket plants. I know, because there's one in my city.

@jeffersonclippership2588

2 ай бұрын

Food also can't supplied solely by the market. If that were the case, farmers and distributors would obviously want prices as high as possible and since people can't not eat, they'll get high enough you get food riots anyway. So every government has to subsidize/protect agriculture.

@amazin7006

2 ай бұрын

We can feed the entire world 3x over, Agriculture is the easiest thing to manage in an economy. What really maters for these advanced countries is high skill and high education. Robots will replace farmers, so what really maters is having more intelligent people that can manage those robots.

@amazin7006

2 ай бұрын

@@jeffersonclippership2588 So what you're saying is socialism is better for agriculture. Strange how the conservatives are the ones rooting for the farmers...

Almost like farmers are a backbone of civilization or something.

I'm seriously impressed with this video. Not only is it about a very important yet under-reported topic, it also manages to cover pretty much all angles of the issue.

Can't believe you listed France twice but not Poland even once

@PavltheRobot

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, makes no sense

@Popcornmix494

2 ай бұрын

There were more protests, naming every single one adds nothing to the video

@grafgeo9194

2 ай бұрын

Twice? Didnt i hear france three times? 😆 It is because of the french clichee: they protest as often as they change their underwear: regularly.

@btg7760

2 ай бұрын

He did mention Poland

@arrielradja5522

2 ай бұрын

Cuz it's funnier

As a CAP policy analyst i was so weirdly excited you covered this 😂 fun fact: cheddar cheese is so popular and cheap in Ireland because it is an easy method of using up the leftovers from making whey protein powder, which is worth a lot more per gram :D

@namelast5029

2 ай бұрын

What does a CAP policy analyst do and where would one even get a job like that?

@marcusmoonstein242

2 ай бұрын

In South Africa cheddar cheese is as expensive as rump steak per kilogram, and the leftover whey powder is often used to supplement pig food. I once met a guy who owned a small ice cream factory and he used whey powder as a cheap way to bulk up his mix.

@meilinchan7314

2 ай бұрын

@@namelast5029 Prolly because in Europe, CAP is a thing and it raises a plethora of legal issues. CAP policy analysts advise medium to large companies on how to negotiate the legal framework of the CAP in EU. Agriculture is an important area of concern for the EU, and has been so for its forerunners ever since the Hongerwinter in Holland during WW2.

@danielsurvivor1372

2 ай бұрын

Das CAP, das CAP

As an Argentinian I can say most of our industries use the same way of protest and have become "indispensable" to any goverment because they hold too many jobs (and no politician wants to be seen as someone leaving people unemployed) Out mega protectionist policies and a pathological need to replace imports with home made goods (99% of the time of inferior quality) has created mostly lazy, inefficent and uncompetitive industries with very high costs and little incentive to improve becuase they have a captive market and any benefit the goverment can give them. Once you reach that point good luck untangling that mess. Those who suffer are consumers who pay more for worse products 😢

One big problem is the supermarkets here in Romania. They charge so much and give so little back to the producer. People have started buying from local warehouses that sell with only +5% added fee (compared to the 80% of the cheapest supermarket)!

Agriculture is almost like having a army, you don't want to rely exclusively in the protection of other countries

@jofujino

2 ай бұрын

I think you mean "production in other countries." And I think the big issue is if you're overly reliant on a single region or climate zone. If you really want food security you want diversification. That said, sugar is a pretty poor example of consumers hurt by lobbying and protectionism. Sugar has terrible long term effects and psychologists have found it an addictive substance, so of course people are probably consuming too much of it but just have a hard time visualizing and taking into account the long term consequences. Just the additional burden of cost high sugar consumption has on programs like Medicare is justification for government intervention to try to discourage consumption, which is what maintaining higher sugar prices does.

@smeminem1258

2 ай бұрын

let's be real here, none of the farmers care about the strategic implications of farmer divestment, they want more money

@arthas640

2 ай бұрын

also the rednecks are always filling the front lines.

@JoeRogansForehead

2 ай бұрын

Tell that to every country in the world about navy’s

@kristianbach4369

Ай бұрын

​@@smeminem1258if farmers cared about money they would not be farmers.

Because farming sucks. I’ve done it. You work 24/7 365 days per year. It’s tough.

@RavenSimracing

2 ай бұрын

and in return you get nearly no profit, and get attacked by vegans, and also immeasurable amounts off stress from the weather not being right, or a massive amount of livestock having TB

@PragandSens

2 ай бұрын

yes but, its repetitive easy to learn work lol

@RefRed_King

2 ай бұрын

​@@PragandSens🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@JaKingScomez

2 ай бұрын

@@PragandSens90% of jobs are repetitive. Farming is brutal. Its not easy growing food. Even with modern day tools you can lose an entire year if work in a week.Its a constant struggle for the farmers.

@klausheissler6651

2 ай бұрын

Not to mention everything else like a warm or cold season a drought or even sickness and disease or even pest that are constantly evolving or adapting to common pesticides fungicides etc. the simple fact that this guy can’t acknowledge that it’s the government picking on farmers who then retaliate (mind you a farmer doesn’t invest time or effort and money into something and not expect to profit) and not just settle is absolutely ridiculous.

Anytime this man uploads, you know you're gonna get one of the most amazing videos ever explaining a really difficult subject

@falcon_224

2 ай бұрын

Well he made a video about "death of Russia" 1.5yrs ago which seems to have aged like milk but yeah as long as its not a current incident or a incident where a general consensus is present/ no discrepancies or propaganda then he makes decent videos since sources are accurate to begin with

Know what costs more than food prices going up? When all the farmers locally lose their business and cant produce anymore and then the importers jack the prices up or supply is lost

@FullLengthInterstates

6 күн бұрын

protectionism is certainly a form of insurance, pay the premium to limit loss. however i highly doubt food prices can be globally manipulated opec style. as long as import supply is available it would just be the fair market price

Everyone wants subsidies but without regulation. Truly a 'have your cake and eat it too' moment.

@ZOCCOK

2 ай бұрын

True. I think that the current system of subsidies and regulations is the best situation. Sure the tables need to be made a bit more fairer, but overall it is better than the alternatives

@fricraft1

2 ай бұрын

subsidies in a market would be a regulated market. What are you on about?

@varnix1006

2 ай бұрын

​​​@@fricraft1government like to sneakily not increase the subsidies according to inflation or straight up not giving subsidies when the farmers did not do what the government want. Edit: Governments supposed to soften the blows from the middleman's agreement, but the "unaccounted spendings" like to cut their budget short.

@trollmastermike52845

2 ай бұрын

The problem is without all the protections a very poor third world country would produce everything, and in a modern world climate nit being self reliant is stupid because of war

@paul_teske

2 ай бұрын

given the political climate in most "third world" countries, i doubt a lot of companies would be willing to invest in better farming infrastructure there, so your argument goes both ways@@trollmastermike52845

Really wish you had discussed food independence more. That's one of the main factors motivating these subsidies. Its perfectly reasonable, at least to me, that nations are heavily invested (figuratively and literally) in ensuring that their people have the food they need if there are global shocks in the market. Its basically a massive insurance program: everyone pays a bit to ensure that the food supply doesn't fall to crap in the face of a multinational war or famine.

@SethTheOrigin

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. People need to realise we don’t live in 2001 anymore. The world is much more unsafe and taking an aggressive stance on essentials is required more and more, just look at Germany and Russia after the Ukraine war started.

@conserva-chan2735

2 ай бұрын

​@@SethTheOrigin>we don't live in 2001 anymore This is the fundamental problem with Hoser and other Neoliberals. They still think it's the world stage of the 1990s, 00s, or even 2010s when if anything it's closer to the Concert of Europe/WWI world stage. Free trade just isn't strategically feasible anymore.

@tempo5366

2 ай бұрын

@@SethTheOriginWhen it comes to autonomy there are definitely areas much more important than food or natural gas. Not that they are not important, but they are abundant in the west. Even with its heavy dependence on Russian gas, Germany switched quickly to other suppliers. Similarly, almost all big western nations produce massive surpluses of food. If you want autonomy, focus on what China produces/controls/might control and we don’t. This includes a massive amount of absolutely crucial manufactured goods. In my opinion, our governments should subsidise semiconductors and less so already abundant food. There is absolutely no sign of a crisis in food production, why intervene constantly then?

@nukedispenser349

2 ай бұрын

@@tempo5366 there is no sign of crisis in food production because every single country is regulating and subsidizing it, if there was a crisis in food industry the whole country could turn to shit in a week. For example, Ukraine and Russia produce around 25% of all the wheat in the world, it would be really bad if something happened in that region... Or Ukraine produced 52% of all sunflower seeds and oil in the world before the war.

@Kamikazeesouled

2 ай бұрын

You missed the part about haitian rice.

I can't stop watching your vids, they are not only educational, but insanely witty and pleasing.

Great video. I really enjoyed it! Thanks for making it. Great topic and well explained

I'm reminded of Clarkson's farm. He had worked for an entire year and the total profit, without subsidy, was a few hundred bucks. Farmers basically break even most of the time, and the amount of work and risk is simply not comparably paid as compared to similarly-skilled fields like engineering. Forget the up front investment and risk. Food subsidies are here to stay.

@HeavyMetalorRockfan9

2 ай бұрын

tbf we didn't see the total calculations, that was also his setup year where he bought $$$ equipment and was constantly spending money on getting things rolling. I'd be much more curious to see what he made on the second and third years. A lot of the pricing problems also come from middlemen, this is true. In my area if I try to buy a whole cows worth of meat I'm going to be paying something like $2500 at a grocery store. I can get a cow direct from a farmer for $500 and pay a guy $200 to butcher it, I just have to have all the storage for all that meat (space and energy, which both cost money). Farmers in Canada literally have to dump their milk if they overproduce to keep prices high, but if you know the farmers they'll sell it to you at a massive discount rate compared to grocery store pricing (illegaly of course, same with the cow + butchering is technically illegal). It just seems like our logistics are not efficient enough with rising energy and food prices, we need to get better at going from farm to table in a more efficient manner. In fact, over 50% of food is known to be wasted in the home, and a further 25-30% spoils in grocery stores, so we're massively overproducing our food

@jesseparrish1993

2 ай бұрын

​@@HeavyMetalorRockfan9 I only cited Clarkson's farm because it was high profile. The numbers, and how common that situation is, are easier to find. Farmers generally have to put a lot of money up front on equipment, as well as notoriously expensive maintenance on equipment. (Caterpillar and John Deere have terrible reputations on repair.) Unfortunately, KZread nukes comments with links. The pandemic brought record prices, and thus profits, but these are now in steep decline. I found some dated figures: farms with net incomes comparable to that of a skilled engineer - net incomes of $120k - require something like $3 million in assets, carry around $500k of debt, typically, while averaging an estimated $75k in unpaid family labor. (Purdue ag department, 2010-2019 figures.) This while working ~55hrs/wk on average and up to 70hrs/wk during harvest. Some years more, some years much less, which you buffer with assets and debt. Again, I'd rather spend a few years at college working half as hard, then engineering working 3/4 as hard, for a steadier, more secure income with less risk.

@JohnDoe-xt3kf

2 ай бұрын

@@HeavyMetalorRockfan9Spending money keeps on being an issue, agriculture is heavily regulated and policy changes can quickly result in the need to spend a lot more money to make adjustments or in direct losses

@The_Foolish_Fool

2 ай бұрын

@@HeavyMetalorRockfan9 " I can get a cow direct from a farmer for $500 and pay a guy $200 to butcher it" No, try $1500 and the butcher will charge about that much for butcher on a 1000lb cow.

@iqbalindaryono8984

2 ай бұрын

No it doesn't, WHY do we need subsidies in the first place? The problem isn't the subsidies, it's the middle man. Buy low, sell high, and everyone gets shafted.

Agriculture is the most protected area of an economy, but at the same time, average farmer in developed country is in danger of international competition from less developed countries, in Europe, is limited with ecological measures and constantly fucked by corporations that sell genetically modified seeds that give harvest once and dies making farmers dependent on these corporations.

@guntherjager5085

2 ай бұрын

Ngl, the small farm ideal is just to inefficient

@chickenfishhybrid44

2 ай бұрын

Gmo fear mongering is kind of goofy. I'm generally in favor of smaller, more local agriculture still to be clear. European farmers don't have to buy gmo, not to mention I'm pretty sure most anything gmo is banned in most of the EU anyway.

@gabrieldsouza6541

2 ай бұрын

@@chickenfishhybrid44Small, local agriculture is inefficient.

@sammyjones8279

2 ай бұрын

1) Terminator seeds are not currently in production (and for MANY REASONS we need to keep it that way, so keep spreading awareness that the technology exists and remind people that it's banned *for a reason*) 2) The problem isn't GMOs persay but the fact that a corporation can put a near *unlimited patent* on a genome, which hurts *everyone*.

@jasonreed7522

2 ай бұрын

The reasoning for why agriculture is the most protected industry is pretty easy to understand, you want a stable food supply or you risk famine. Obviously there are multiple ways to ensure a food supply, but for national security reasons most countries prefer domestic production. (And the incumbent farmers will try to protect themselves from being made obsolete.)

Better help is a known scam thats been in massive legal trouble and scandals multiple times

As a Farmer I noticed a couple of things. The Claim That Farmers make Bank is not necessarily true, last year (without giving away too much info) the Family Farm made 2ish Million dollars but we only farm 211ac and milk 44 head of cattle. Most of the cash earned goes back into the Farm and Sugar Beet farms are even more focused on putting money into the Farm as to make Money Sugar Beet farming you need to spend big big Bucks on a picker, planter, the tractors needed to run the Equipment, and the Trucks to haul the Beets to Storage. All in all to get a Beet Set up that you can pay the Bills efficiently you need to spend a Lot of Cash, and not everyone has a Lot of that lying around to buy a 100k tractor, 200k harvester, 30k for a high dump, and 80k for a truck setup (not exact prices and Trucks can be rented) so they need to go to a Bank for the Equipment

@lluisfargaslopez9603

2 ай бұрын

Most people with regular office jobs can't comprehend the economics of family farms. They only see the milions of income and treat them as revenue. The majority of farmers live like they weren't making minimum salary but, of course, spend hundreds of k in equipment, utility bills etc. Is important to note that the 1% of farmers, as well as in the majority of sectors, are walthy as fuck playing as realtors and having multiple businesses streams. These types of farmers only mantain the farms for subsidies or sentimental factors.

@edmondgreen7970

2 ай бұрын

at the end you don't even list 500k in setup, something you only spend once, you only set up once, and yet made $2,000,000. Oh gee.....I wonder if the bank will cover that?? You make MILLIONS and don't even spend that much on equipment every year. Yea welfare queen, you make bank.

@redroadrebel7049

2 ай бұрын

Not to mention most of the time it's the retailer which makes all of the money not the farmer himself.

@VaporSlav

2 ай бұрын

@@redroadrebel7049 the grain elevators do make a pretty good cut, but most does Go back to the Farmer, who in turn puts it back into the Farm

Plum Farmer from South Africa here in a country without subsidies. I don't think it can be understated how much power the supermarkets wield when it comes to manipulating the price of produce for the end consumer. My input costs have increased by at least 30% over the last 4 years since the pandemic, yet, the supermarkets in the UK want to pay us less than what they paid us before the pandemic. As a result we've been forced to send our fruit to the USA, who are willing to pay a fair price. A fair price is one where we aren't losing money on a sale. As a food producer we truly are at the mercy of supply and demand in the worst possible way. Over-supply in a market during a good season (good weather) means higher input costs and lower prices, while under-supply in a bad season (bad weather) means lower input costs, higher prices, but less product shipped. I personally think that subsidies are important for farming to be sustainable in the long run due to weather variability and climate change, but it needs to be done properly. A way that minimizes waste and encourages efficiencies. The EU is a case in point of overprotective markets. Spanish farmers for years have been lobbying for ridiculous export requirements, which they themselves aren't able to comply with. Their deciduous fruit industry has had no reason to innovate due to lack of competition. This is a situation where everyone loses. The cherry on top is that we supply them during periods when it's out of their season. So why even put trade barriers in place?

@Pulstar232

2 ай бұрын

reminds me of the shitshow in australia. the supermarket duopoly there is actually insane. i wonder if something like ubereats for groceries but directly from farmers would be a better deal for both consumer and producer? granted the logistics would be a major problem.

@DeadTried

2 ай бұрын

​@@Pulstar232yeah same issue across in NZ supermarkets don't want to pay much for the goods and when they do the price is jacked to rack in 100s of % more than they paid, so they can run small business out of money if they don't accept the price

@SoMuchFacepalm

2 ай бұрын

@@DeadTried " supermarkets don't want to pay much for the goods and when they do the price is jacked to rack in 100s of % more than they paid" These the same supermarkets that often operate on a 3% profit margin? The one's who sell a bit of everything and squeeze as much out of the customer because that's the only way they don't lose money? When they have just a few % of their product being stolen, they go out of business? Yeah, I think there might be something a bit more complicated than "Huur durr rich man bad" going on here.

@TinuVoicu

2 ай бұрын

I’m not in this field 🙃 but as i know EU has the strictest regulations in the world when it comes to agriculture. Especially about fertilisers and quality control. For example Ukraine wouldn’t be allowed to sell grain in the EU market because they use ilegal ferilisers and seeds which creates unfair competition (another reason for the protest in Europe, especially in eastern Europe)

@dijosto

2 ай бұрын

​@@TinuVoicuI thought they used to be one of the main suppliers of grian in EU

whoa they spray sh!t on government offices 😂😂 i didn't know they moved like that

@deep_cuts2019

2 ай бұрын

It’s inspiring really

@sammyjones8279

2 ай бұрын

Most people who live or work on farms have access to a near unlimited supply of feces and a complete desensitization to the smell. Do not f$$$k with them 😂

@explosivereactionstv7414

2 ай бұрын

Heavy shit if you ask me

@L.internet8

2 ай бұрын

What did ye expect out of French ppl?

@Eoin-B

2 ай бұрын

We have had loads of incidents of throwing food, especially messy stuff like kababs, at our local leaders as well as one major tabloid putting out bounties to do it in both the UK and Ireland. You can get away with a lot of this in Europe. Just imagine doing it outside of here. I think Japan and S Korea do it too. True freedom.

I hate this trend of changing video thumbnails and titles. It seems so deceptive.

The price isn't caused by the farmers asking for a few more cents, it is caused by the supermarkets reselling the products for two, three times the price

@magicjuand

2 ай бұрын

where do people get this from? supermarkets are extremely low margin businesses basically everywhere in the world.

@NormalPerson053

2 ай бұрын

And here we go gonna include mafias cut also in name of supermarket. You all lie. You all have a boogyman big corporations you all say they and government behind everything but farmer mafias are also part of there racket. And guess what they use small farmers as meat shields from protesting market trends they will be the 1st casualties they keep the system that way. And also since there is a similar feeling for farmer as that of soldiers and countries can't ignore and you all squeeze the normal folks just like them big bullies. You all may never be defeated but never think you all right you all are same market manipulators and frauds like those asshole soros and bezos.

@GeraltofRivia22

2 ай бұрын

​@@magicjuandout their ass. I go to farmer's markets a lot, they cost about the same as what you get in the supermarkets, but maybe a bit better quality wise.

@taylorroos4414

2 ай бұрын

I get paid 85c NZD for a cauliflower currently, thats one cauliflower delivered (at my cost) to the supermarket. Shelf price currently is $4.99 NZD. Make that make sense

@kardoxfabricanus7590

2 ай бұрын

I like your channel avatar, I do like dragons as well. Also yeah I think ultimately the problem is the unnecessary middleman that is slowly becoming less necessary overtime and more of a burden due to the sabotage they do to both farmers and consumers. But there's also the CEOs and shareholder capitalism which I prefer calling by a different name. I think a more accurate term for the system we're currently living under is rapeism cause a lot of capitalists are really rapey y'know? They constantly hate the idea of consent and want workers to work overtime and never say no. It's rape in all but name.

To add to the video, there are also massive security implications for a country to be able to fulfill its agricultural needs domestically in the case of conflict or a regression in global trade.

@badsport4035

2 ай бұрын

7:19

Congratulations to your channel! this is the best video you have ever made.... I admire the fact that you took the time to investigate and analize all those boring graphics from The Media...

in January i almost got trapped in france because of a farmers protest, thanks for letting us know more about the topic.

If there ever was a group to pay above average, the group that literally puts food on my table is a good one.

@austinm3377

2 ай бұрын

Yeah not starving is good.

@TheManinBlack9054

2 ай бұрын

​@@austinm3377why not police or the doctors? Or the infrastructure workers?

@austinm3377

2 ай бұрын

@@TheManinBlack9054 fucking cops have never done anything for me other waste my time and take my money.

@teamfossil6312

2 ай бұрын

@@TheManinBlack9054You can defend yourself, and you don’t need a doctor or to fix a road every day. You need to eat every day

@hamzerpanzer

2 ай бұрын

​@@TheManinBlack9054Those are good too, but why the whataboutism?

Because it is socially unacceptable to protest against common people.

@sammyjones8279

2 ай бұрын

It is socially unpopular to inconvenience the common man but legally devistating to inconvenience a billionaire and his company

@23uncbball

2 ай бұрын

Who decided that lol

@obi-wankenobi9871

2 ай бұрын

​@@23uncbballSociety.

@SaltyChickenDip

2 ай бұрын

Farmers are no longer the common people

@hexa7730

2 ай бұрын

in germany there are protests and farmers get insane ammounts of subsidies, among others an avarage of 50k€ direct payment, and subsidized fuel. this is the opposite of common people

You forgot to say that EU offers subsidies in exchange for, arguably, the healthiest agro products in the world. This is exactly why we had these huge protests all over the continent, the EU Comision had plans to enforce stricter laws to protect the environment against carbon emissions, and overfarming. The latter was a very controversial proposal which would force the farmers to regenerate plots that had low nutrients, thus reducing their harvest. Sadly the green deal was scraped due to these prostest in an electoral year.

@WesternUranus

2 ай бұрын

Problem is you cannot impose these restrictions on farmers without putting tarifs on imports, otherwise it makes no sense

@karolinakuc4783

2 ай бұрын

Americans don't care about healthy food. If aquaponic farming is considered organic you know people there have no sense of taste.

@kerriwilson7732

2 ай бұрын

Sadly farmers understand the consequences of bureaucratic virtue signaling. 🇨🇦

@KaoticReach1999

8 күн бұрын

Stay outta government.

My dad manages a hospitality business that lets say is designed to cater towards richer individuals. We live in a rural ish area but there are large (some of the largest in the US) cities not that far away. Who do you think gets my dads services, rich city dwellers or farmers? Farmers. I've never met a poor farmer in the US, and I've met at least thousands as I work for my dad, yet "poor farmers" are all I hear about.

You should give me $0.76 off carrots… (Thunder noise) NOW!

Some context over what was complained in France by farmers: 1) Nonsense regulations, which is that France pushes more regulations and a lot more bureaucracy than what the EU requires. It doesn't help the situation since the corporates can just import cheaper goods from Ukraine (like chicken, seen on all national news) while our farmers are forced to a higher standard. In times of inflation such as now, it makes them unable to sell their goods. 2) Higher prices in supermarkets != them selling for higher $$. They can't meet even a decent salary unless you are part of the top 1% 3) It was seen as a Gilets Jaunes 2.0 and the government definitively doesn't want that to happen again, thus why they quickly tried to calm things down. Don't forget that your small farmer isn't making bank from most regulations.

@jennifermarlow.

2 ай бұрын

Yes, it's the same in Canada. Small farms are being regulated out of existence. It's criminal.

@ukyoize

2 ай бұрын

No such thing as "Small Farmer"

@MrVideoVero

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like a robust social welfare program is needed to allow farmers to maintain their livelihoods is needed, It helps small farmers while not giving billions to ultrarich companies that own most of the farms.

@karolinakuc4783

2 ай бұрын

If you have monopoly you will be able to set prices

@JoeRogansForehead

2 ай бұрын

Yellow vest failed

Well done explaining multiple angles on the video topic!

6:03 A note, better help doesnt actually guarentee that the person will be licensed or qualified; it says so in their TOS

Milk in Canada was slow to rise in inflation, that small increase was small compared to every other food type. That’s thanks to the quota system.

@alexandert6489

2 ай бұрын

Yep protects our markets and farmers. I work in the dairy industry and would rather pay abit more for milk than farms dying off

Advantages of no restrictions: 1) Cheaper food 2) More globalization 3) Development of larger and more efficient farms Disadvantages of no restrictions: 1) Loss of farming jobs 2) Lack of food independence 3) Can cause hyper specialization in countries leading to too much dependence on a certain crop.

@crazeelazee7524

2 ай бұрын

I'd argue "not supporting third world sIavery" is also a pretty good advantage.

@notinterested7911

2 ай бұрын

@crazeelazer7524 You know farmers in europe and the usa are still using cheap workers from other countries they just ship them back after harvest is done. You sound like this: “How terrible if people in the global south could actually make money on their land and support their own economies and states instead of being used as cheap labor”

@att7364

2 ай бұрын

food indepence oooh you didnt agree with the global agenda? EMBARGO!

@greatwolf5372

2 ай бұрын

More globalization is not an advantage. It's just a description of what fewer restriction is. Globalization itself can be advantageous or disadvantages to different groups of people.

@quinnholloway5400

2 ай бұрын

Globalization is not a 100% positive m8te

Farmers have alot of power, which makes sense because they make our food.

Dude thank you, you never disappoint me with these animations. That panda harvesting the cotton had me rolling

Im a dairy farmer and I agree with some of farmers because I don’t about everything else but the price per 100 weight has not changed since the 80s when you could buy a Big Mac for a $1.

Same Situation in My Country Bangladesh 🇧🇩 But Farmers Are Not Protesting Because We Are So Scared of Our Dictator 🌚

@beetlebg3759

2 ай бұрын

The female leader of Bangladesh is not a dictator

@Purjo92

2 ай бұрын

@@beetlebg3759There is so much corruption that it can hardly be called democracy and therefore its leader is pretty much what we would call a dictator. At best the country could be called a hybrid regime.

@rizkyadiyanto7922

2 ай бұрын

@@beetlebg3759 dictatress? dictatrix?

@iconofthicc6086

2 ай бұрын

@@rizkyadiyanto7922sounds kinky

@FREE_PALESTINE_4444

2 ай бұрын

@@beetlebg3759 Your Not Bangladeshi You Don't Know, He Do Rigged Elactions! As A Bangladeshi I Can't Vote in My Life Freely! My Dad Also Was Forced To Vote Hassina Infront of Gun! 80% People Hate Hassina Because He is India's Puppet

I love it because while those protests are quite annoying to deal with, they're one of the very few groups who still dares to stand up to the government and actually exert some pressure to push back against potentially terrible policies, while everyone else rots in apathy and always accepts the status quo.

@DMSBrian24

2 ай бұрын

The current protests are not for higher food prices, they're against climate regulations that make domestic production much less viable. And yes, this includes protectionism, because if the point is to care about the climate, why then import all the food from places that don't follow the same regulations? That's just screwing your own people over while only making the problem worse by adding additional transport related emissions.

@mantrachhaya6835

Ай бұрын

Especially in a country like india, but it is what a democracy has to deal with, and it is what makes democracy strong....

Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!

What about my Cabbages?

@AskTorin

2 ай бұрын

My Cabbages!

@aggressiveindifference

2 ай бұрын

Asking the real question

@bernardoheusi6146

2 ай бұрын

I blame China.

Theres a scale of jobs, on one end is corporate news letter writer for a letter that no one reads and purely exists to tick a box, and on the other is farming.

Great video, love your animation sytle! Needless to say, I'm subscribed.

Unfortunately, many farmers are paid dirt, while the supermarket charges vast profits.

@meneither3834

2 ай бұрын

I keep hearing that shit, and yet buying products directly from farmers has never been less expensive than in super.arket.

@poorsvids4738

2 ай бұрын

They have a small markup that barely covers the loss of expired and damaged product. Working at a grocery store, I realized most of their money was made from impulse merchandise that customers would buy while shopping for fresh food.

@MVargic

2 ай бұрын

@@meneither3834 Why would farmers sell it for less if they can charge the same amount and still sell everything and earn a lot more money? They have a limited amount of produce anyways and its in their interest to make as much profits from it as possible to feed their families.

@MVargic

2 ай бұрын

@@poorsvids4738 Did you know how much different foods cost to buy from the supplier?

I like the cute art style of the farmer and stuff like the graphs a lot. It's hilarious, enduring, and adorable that it be great to see it in more vids. It's just so funny and cute seeing the farmer go angry and the scream sound effect you use

And then walmart goes and hikes up their home-brand prices by 40%, just cuz. And their several billion profits just go up.

Better help sells your personal information, including medical information, to Facebook Snapchat etc. even when explicitly stating otherwise when signing up. As recently as a year ago they got in trouble for this

It's just funny to me when he says COMBINED. Love your videos ❤

It's so refreshing to watch a well researched video, that doesn't just explain how one thing is good or bad on the surface, but actually assess the implications.

@adamheuer8502

2 ай бұрын

No Amos things he says in this video are bullshit from someone that skimmed over the topic and made assumptions based on their first impressions. Please don’t listen to anything said in this video

@KucingLunox

2 ай бұрын

@@adamheuer8502and your counter point is??

@allrounder7003

2 ай бұрын

@@KucingLunox Are you expecting that in a comment? It would take a whole new video at least 4 times longer. If you think there's just one counterpoint you're just not getting it.

@jacobchambers8036

2 ай бұрын

Please forgive Adam above but he’s right, this is written from the perspective of a consumer with absolutely zero knowledge of the agricultural industry. The issue essentially boils down to farmers make less and less for each calorie produced while processors distributors and governments charge more and more. Your price increase are not due to farmers but because the processor is charging more, the grocery then ups their charge as well. The consumer inevitably suffers. Government help also almost always hurts us as well as even the direct subsidies we receive (I’m in the US) will cause ag supply companies to up their rates, landowners will up rental rates, essentially the entire supply chain we rely on to produce our crops will up their price to take advantage of our subsidies or even our price upswings. Every portion of the economy is poised to take advantage of farmers, and because farmers are such a small minority in first world countries they are a convenient scapegoat as well. It’s a fascinating if macabre subject actually.

@allrounder7003

2 ай бұрын

@@jacobchambers8036 Exactly. Farmers are not meant to benefit from subsidies. Their main function is to stop the price of land tanking. If it did banks and pension funds etc would be devastated.

Lmao, I was about to share the video to my Facebook but the facebook still use the old title "I Want $0.76 off Carrots- NOW!!"

8:43 after 24 years of existence as a Vietnamese, only till today i learnt that the "BASA" fish is just catfish but for export

Damn you on a streak man, keep up the amazing videos

Well, at least in Argentina farmers protest for the opposite: freer markets. Our industry is so competitive that the government mostly taxes the exports of agricultural products. And this is a really great cause of political instability, so please consider: whenever europe closes itself it comes at the cost of poorer and inestable countries remaining the same.

@bipolarkeyboard

2 ай бұрын

Wow, what a great country. We should aspire to be just like you guys! 😂☠

@estebanjosearancibiardrigu4068

2 ай бұрын

@@bipolarkeyboard kjjjjjj we are a mess but we have a really strong agricultural sector

I love how he exploded at the end

@phylloence

2 ай бұрын

hey!! he didnt explode!!

H0ser hadnt shown up on my feed in awhile even though subscribed. Hello again.

Here in 🇳🇿 New Zealand, we are a major producer of beef, milk and dairy products but the price of food here is also very expensive. Same in 🇦🇺 Australia, where whilst the price of food is Australia is slightly cheaper than here in NZ, it's still rather expensive. However, when I was on holiday in 🇹🇼 Taiwan, despite Taiwan not having much of a farming or agricultural industry of their own, the price of food there was remarkably cheap, which was surprising considering that when you look at the packaging on where beef and milk in Taiwan comes from, much of it comes from here in NZ and Australia. Doesn't seem fair that whilst I was in 🇹🇼 Taiwan and the 🇵🇭 Philippines I found that food in those countries were cheaper, despite these countries not having much of a farming industry and these countries importing most of their food from NZ and Australia, New Zealand and Australian beef and milk sold in those Asian countries are cheaper than the same NZ and Australian beef & dairy here in New Zealand and Australia.

@jennifermarlow.

2 ай бұрын

Wait till you learn about prices in Russian supermarkets! They pay a pittance, compared to Canadian prices. Our governments are stealing us blind, and giving it to the corporations.

When Hoser post its a good day

Dude, you’re the best. Don’t stop. Don’t ever change.

Amazing video, keep up the good work man!

Having betterhelp as your sponsor, YIKES!

@Filterbubble-rz7rf

2 ай бұрын

Why? I honestly don't know much about them and would like to.

@dioniscaraus6124

2 ай бұрын

​@@Filterbubble-rz7rfThey hired unqualified psychologists and sold information about people's private life

@nothingtoseeheremovealong598

2 ай бұрын

@@Filterbubble-rz7rfTake it with a grain of salt, but I heard that they sell your data to advertisers

@victorshopov4913

2 ай бұрын

they are also based in Isr*ael and sponsor the IDF.

@victorshopov4913

2 ай бұрын

comments are getting deleted y'all

At least when talking about the EU, you missed half of the picture. Because the funds come with some unrealistic requirements that just makes european farmers less competitive in comparison with those of outside the EU, and this is why they're complaining, at least in my country they essentially protest against unnecessary bureaucracy and unfair regulations.

@jonah9690

2 ай бұрын

yes but if you cut subsidies and cut bureaucracy (e.g. environmental regulations) that will only benefit the big and highly efficient farmers. The EU agriculture industry is just full of ineffecient and small farms that only work on subsidies. They will only benefit from cutting (environmental) regulations but not from cutting subsidies. So he is right that if you want lower prices for the consumers you need to open up the market and cut subsidies but if you want to protect small farmers, you have to keep them. Obviously cutting regulations comes at the cost of more harmful environmental impact. In my opinion having subsidies that high is kinda unsustainable since a lot of small farmers (especially in southern and eastern europe) couldn't even exist. But unfortunately we now have so many people in these regions who have their lifes dependent on that small form agriculture that removing subsidies will have big impacts.

@Popcornmix494

2 ай бұрын

well yes and no, I grew up with lots of farmers around me, none of them did anything to develop their farms and make them more efficient, they hold animals in horrible conditions and complain when their meat isnt classified in a higher catagory which would make them more money. Farms are small companies but I dont know a single farmer with an education in economics or any further education because they just inherit the farm and run it the same way their parents did. That wouldnt be possible in any other sector because you´d go bankrupt. Small farms are inefficient and at the same time farmers are unable to adapt. They cant even form collectives to get better prices from the supermarkets. They love to hate on the government while selling for cheap.

@LoFora

2 ай бұрын

@@jonah9690 I think that some of those small farmers could survive if you cut the fundings and also relieved the regulations (or made some kind of policy to ensure they can actually compete). Just allow them to save a bit and see who uses the savings to adapt and who still is not able to make it. Maybe we would be surprised. In any case, it's obvious not all of them will make it, and I think this is not a problem, but there are some that have potential since local markets are still a thing in a lot of places, and specially in southern Europe people is very used to buy from near producers.

@LoFora

2 ай бұрын

@@Popcornmix494 Well, I don't know where did you grow, but at least where I am from the new generations of farmers are attending university in mass. Most of them do have degrees in agricultural engineering or similar studies. The problem is that they usually lack the money to adapt their farms to the new regulations, and fundings are usually not close to being enough to that matter.

@lluisfargaslopez9603

2 ай бұрын

In erurope trying to modernize your explotation comes very difficult due to subsidies. My family tried the hard wat building extremeley efficient greenhouses and we have faced very hard times. We qualify for subsidies but they are given per surface area so being efficient is a down cap @@Popcornmix494

Great video. Showing us that we need a healthy agricultural sector. We need to help the farmers and they need to adapt more organic farming in return. There was never a free market to begin with. Tariffs and subsidies. And the big supermarkets are those that cut the profits for farmers the most. They wanna buy cheap and sell high. And they have huge power over the price of raw goods. Aldi for example.

The farmer is needed.

We can easily pay farmers more but unfortunately grocery stores are very selfish and markup more than they should

@itchylol742

2 ай бұрын

grocery stores typically have a profit margin of 1-3%. how are they gonna pay farmers more

@randomsomeguy156

2 ай бұрын

@@itchylol742 most people refer to large chain super markets when they say grocery store. Mum and pop shops are not the issue. We point to the super markets with proper amounts of revenue, high cash in flow, and large tax avoidance/evasion

@dioniscaraus6124

2 ай бұрын

​@@itchylol742 Australia being the exception they have a duopoly

@hanneskarlbom6644

2 ай бұрын

​@@itchylol742I think he's mixing up the stores and the suppliers.

@alexj-t2331

2 ай бұрын

It’s other middle men that are the problem

Yay some hoser.

Crazy how the people that feed you always win the arguement.

@winniethepoohxi1896

2 ай бұрын

That wasn't the point lol. I don't think you got the video. You are just propping up inefficient small farmers. The big, efficient agriculture companies here in America will feed us for cheaper. Everyone is just getting bullied by rednecks with tractors that feel like they deserve our money for doing their job poorly. They don't actually threaten our food supply its just their equipment is just very disruptive in protests. Funny how they hate socialism until it applies to them personally.

love the fact that this video is to the instrumentals from Saint Pablo

Poland. How the hell you didn't mention it in the begging, it's probably one of the biggest one's right now.

@thomaskloos6409

2 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly but then france came a 2nd time on the list

@immentallunstable111

2 ай бұрын

And to think all of this shitshow in Poland started with ukrainian wheat...

@beetlebg3759

2 ай бұрын

Wait till you hear about India

@anonymouslund

2 ай бұрын

​@@beetlebg3759 He literally mentioned India, you blind?

@beetlebg3759

2 ай бұрын

@@anonymouslund I am about to prove you so wrong you lil batch! I know he said India in the video. But according to the commenter Poland’s farmer protests are one of the biggest right now and while’s he is right, the farmer protests in India hold more weight so now you know why you are a sussy fool.

The fact that there is an ad timer makes me feel better, and I’ll sit through the ad for you buddy

Great video!

I'd suggest you take a research on Thailand (The country produce that rice bag on Japan rice lol). Our food cost in the city is about 25-30% of minimum income, forcing low wage people to cook themself in small apartment. The agriculture industry is already monopolized. Small size farmer have to buy seed, fertilizer and pesticide from a few company and they can even lobby many restrictions and law.

Considering that small farmers are asking for the ability to work a job and live a LIFE, I say for such an essential group in society, they ask for very little.

@michaelpuffer7299

2 ай бұрын

So are coal workers, but we're generally okay seeing those jobs disappear.

@peterfireflylund

Ай бұрын

Can’t the farmers learn to code?

because the government would shut down the consumer protests and they dont have as much free time

@taylorroos4414

2 ай бұрын

The average consumer has more time than the average farmer you think? Give me a break

@garfreld

2 ай бұрын

@@taylorroos4414Yeah, living on the same plot of land you work on and only having to work seasonally would give you alot of free time lol

@taylorroos4414

2 ай бұрын

@@garfreld You need to visit rural communities. Every day animals and irrigation needs to be moved. there are no days off. You may be confusing agricultural contractors (fencers, tractor drivers etc) with actual farmers.

@areaxisthegurkha

2 ай бұрын

​@@taylorroos4414pretty sure the topic here was about plant farmers but ok

@taylorroos4414

Ай бұрын

@@areaxisthegurkha I grew up on a stock (animal) farm and was a plant farmer (market gardener) for years in adulthood. Irrigation still needs shifted every day or almost every day. Crops must be constantly monitored to check for nutrient deficiency and more urgently pest and disease. If a nutrient deficiency is present, fertiliser must be added quickly to ensure the crop fills out, If a disease, fungus or pest is present it needs to be constantly monitored and when reaching a certain level must be sprayed or you will not get any marketable crop. weeds must also be monitored and sprayed if they become too high for the crop to compete. Depending on season and crop type crops need to be covered overnight with frost cloth and uncovered during the day to allow airflow to reduce disease as well as sunlight. There is also crop rotation, tilling, machine repair, crop monitoring, soil testing, harvest and freight to market to take into consideration. I now work an office job (42 hours a week) and I have never had more spare time in my life.

0:18 That picture is not from Finland, and finnish farmers havent revolted for many years, and here nothing haven't burned. Cost of tractor fuel has been long time so expensive, that farmers dont travel hundreds of kilometers to capital. Yes, there was a small, local, peaceful and outside of capital-demonstration 2019, but l wouldn't call that a revolt. And it was about reforming one highway road by denying farm machines moving in that highway, and at the same time road planners didn't consider a new alternative route for farmers to travel, and that's why farmers kept a one day peaceful demonstration (tractor march) to local town. Instead of making demonstrations or revolting, farmers just discontinue their farms, because they are financially pushed to the limits. And many of they are old people - over fifth is age of 65+. For example in 2021 about 400 dairy farms ended working, and in 2022 there were only 2400 left totally in Finland - milk production haven't lowered too much, because size of dairy farms' cow count have increased - now it is averagely 50. When we stopped our dairy production in 2010, we had about 16 cows - and that was considered a pretty big dairy farm at that time. You can only imagine what kind of reformation finnish agriculture and dairy production have gone after we joined to EU. Dairy production has become either "sidehobby" which limits the farmer's movement, or go all in with depts and cow counts, creating ever bigger farms (last time l heard there were a farm with 200 cows with 4 robot milking machines. Probably held by only one family union with their children, or two farmer families).

This is very enlightening!

I feel like you are conflating subsidises to maintain a ‘monopoly’ (can’t think of a better word) with subsidies required to maintain competition between local production and international exports. Since international exports provide cheaper imports then local farmers, farming will no longer be viable/ economically stable. Your Haiti and Mexico example kinda show this. Thanks to cheap American rice and corn, independent farmers failed to keep up reducing the amount of farmers and farming jobs. Wouldn’t this be a threat to food security if your country becomes more dependent on foreign imports? This is especially important in Europe during covid and the war in Ukraine that effected food prices and global shipping. I am not denying the American case of sugar and Chinese case of cotton but I assume the average citizen of countries with protectionist policies subsidised farmers in order to ensure food security. Furthermore countries in Europe and Japan don’t have the same luxury of land and soil quality compared to other nations. Their farmers are already at a disadvantage with countries that have cheap labour and plenty of arable land.

@redroadrebel7049

2 ай бұрын

Not to mention that European countries have a quality standard whilst other countries use pesticides and chemicals which have been banned for over 20 years here in the EU. If you look into chemical prices across Europe you'll find that they are considerably more expensive because of substitute chemicals which are typically used in the pesticides etc.. instead of the carcinogens.

@pottertheavenger1363

2 ай бұрын

Yes, and Mexico has been moving to ban gmo corn from the us to protect mexican corn producers, much to the gringos' anger. Cited reasons are health concerns over modified corn and preservation of native hairloom corn varieties.

@PhysicsGamer

Ай бұрын

@@redroadrebel7049 Europe also bans GMOs in many cases, which is exceedingly silly.

@KaoticReach1999

8 күн бұрын

​@@pottertheavenger1363 The "gringos" don't care, we're focused on keeping things out not in from Mexico.

I can’t get enough of Indonesia’s Komodo dragon. Also, 2:24, American buffalo’s face buried in sugar like it’s the co-co… love it. XD

Awesome video. I learned a lot! Seems like trade agreements are the best way to make sure everyone wins.

19:39 adding insult to injury with the Haiti rice situation is that it was recently discovered that the imported American rice has dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium. Levels high enough to cause cancer. Which explains the recent increase in cancer in the country. Local rice can still be found on the market, but now most people have grown accustomed to the flavor of the American rice and prefer it.

Why isn't this video about retailers that sell the farmers produce and take sometimes 90% or more of the money? Yeah consumers pay a lot but farmers make very little. The retail store keeps most of the money, so they're god damn right to protest.

@Wasp609

2 ай бұрын

Well, by the time the product gets to the retailer, it has gone through multiple processes and hands that all need to get paid as well.

@oswaldrabbit1409

11 сағат бұрын

@@Wasp609 retail stores actually have an extremely thin margin on produce.

i was about to watch old hoser videos

This is a great video showing how multifaceted the agriculture subsidies issue is. Glad it exists instead of Farmer Good, Farmer Bad

In Canada the massive rise in the cost of food is from grocery monopolies charging the consumer more at point of sale. The price of food from farmers itself hasn't risen with the cost from grocers. This is more an issue of antitrust; and these large grocery monopolies needing to be broken up.

I hope we eventually get rid of the sugar tariffs, that way we can start seeing sugar in things instead of high fructose corn syrup

@alexandert6489

2 ай бұрын

Everything has sugar, just different types. Corn syrup is glucose, milk has lactose and fruit is fructose

@edmondgreen7970

2 ай бұрын

@@alexandert6489 even the man that invented high fructose corn syrup said it was the worst thing man has ever invented. Shit is deadly.

@PhysicsGamer

Ай бұрын

@@edmondgreen7970 Like MSG was?