Arkansas Farmers Begin Destroying Their Own Crops!

[LiberalArkie]

Dec 2, 2025

The Arkansas farming market is experiencing its most severe downturn in decades, sending shockwaves through the agricultural heartland of America. In this urgent market update, we expose the devastating collapse hitting Arkansas farmers as land values plummet, crop prices crater, and family farms face unprecedented financial pressure. From the rice fields of the Delta to the poultry farms of Northwest Arkansas, agricultural property values are in freefall. Commodity prices have crashed below break-even levels, equipment costs have skyrocketed, and drought conditions are destroying yields across the state. Small and mid-sized farming operations that have survived for generations are now on the brink of bankruptcy.

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[we can do it]

1. FAFO

[BradBo]

2. And they would vote for Trump again if they could. Just not a black woman.

[OverBurn]

19. How devastatingly sad, but 100% fucking true.

[RockRaven]

3. Oh, man, if only there was a way to avoid the entirely predictable consequences

of voting over and over again for decades for a political party whose policies lead to exactly these consequences! What a world that would be! But alas... instead we have a world of "finding out."

[flashman13]

4. All this happened in rural America even before the Great Crash of '29.

Could this be an omen of worse things to come?

[Climate Crusader]

5. I know it may be a little satisying to point and say, "FAFO".

But I encourage us to reach out to these folks with empathy and a willingness to explain that we have more that binds us than tears us apart- and there are those who want to use the few divisions to weaken our resolve.

We need some from the other side to crosss overr to make us big enough to take on MAGA. Don't believe the cliche's. Many of these folks can be reached. I live in deep red north Georgia and I can tell there is a slow change, but if we belittle and dberatee these people we will not benefit from their change of hearrt.

[Blues Heron]

6. Good luck with that, they are in for some serious psychic pain when they realize how much they were conned

If they ever do that is.

[mwmisses4289]

7. We have spent the last 30-40 years reaching out to these folks,

only to be metaphorically punched down, sneered at and spat upon. No more. What little empathy or sympathy I had for them dried up a long time ago.

[Climate Crusader]

10. That is exactly what they say about us.

Keep doing the same thing.

Yeah.

That's it.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. There's an underlying animus that is enthusiastically expressed against farmers here.

Being a farmer it's very hurtful to read the comments here that are so lacking in basic human compassion. I gave up trying to persuade here when it comes to farmers.

Posting about farmer suicides went mostly unnoticed.

I appreciate your suggestions. Stay encouraged, Climate Crusader.


Link to my post.
https://democraticunderground.com/11822364
Video that is part of the post:

❤️

[moniss]

20. I remember in the '70's and '80's

wives would go out to the barn and find their husbands had hung themselves etc. Life insurance to try to leave their wives with something to live on after the farm got foreclosed. Some because of a sense of having failed the family generations before them.

I come from this background and know how deep and dire these circumstances are.

[patphil]

8. And this is just Arkansas. The problem is national in scope.

One of the reasons is the destruction of USAID, When Trump allowed Musk to dismantle USAID, it rippled throughout all the farms across the US. The estimated loss is about $2 billion.
Now lets take away hundreds of thousands of immigrant farm workers who won't be there to help plant, tend, and harvest the crops.

https://www.usglc.org/media/2025/03/Assistance-Cuts-Hurt-Our-Economy.pdf

Farms have traditionally been low profit margin businesses. Now they're no profit businesses, which means bankruptcy for many thousands of farms across the US.
Add to that all the businesses that rely on farmers for their profits, and you can see the scope this has for agricultural states. It's a disaster that's only going to get worse.

It's farmageddon!

[LiberalArkie]

9. When Rome used to invade and conquer, one of the first things was to burn the crops to make the populations

dependent on Rome. Who are we supposed become dependent on?

[patphil]

11. That's a good question. I think the people who have caused this haven't thought that through.

The republicans want to shake America up, tear a lot down, and rebuild it their way.
The problem is if you shake too hard, there could be a lot of unintended consequences.
If you threaten the survival of too many people, they look for ways to fight back. That could happen. If the 2028 election shows enough progress back toward reasonable, responsible, caring government, we may find our way out of this mess without blood in the streets.
We need to decide whether we want to rely on each other, or some dictatorial government; whether we want to embrace the ideals we've always claimed we had, or leave it all in the hands of people who are only interested in money, power, and control.
Ultimately it depends on us.

[LiberalArkie]

13. I think that if Khrushchev was still present, everyone would know. As Russia still hates the U.S. with a passion we

could not understand. After WW2 they wanted all of Europe. They felt that it was owed to them. They want it all back not just what was given to them after the war, but all of Europe.

[duckworth969]

15. Big Ag going to buy up those family farms

Any MAGA that is having serious $ issues, they’re reaping (pun intended) what they sow. Farmers been voting Repug since forever.

Why do you think the Oz Scarecrow says about his stuffing being ripped out by the Flying Monkeys, "Oh, no. I just keep picking it up and putting it back in again”.

Effed by monied interests, The Scarecrow keeps taking a beating over and over, and he does that because he hasn’t any brains.

[patphil]

23. So, we need a wizard to give brains, heart, and courage to people who appear to have none. Perhaps they just sleep.

But then, who's Dorothy in this scenario?
She was just a farm girl in the book and movie. Now she's got to be so much more.
Ah! She's the one who's woke. She wakes up at the end, and see's the characters in her dream as the real people they actually are.

[Botany]

21. And the department of Ag used to support local smaller scale farms growing high quality crops

…. for local food banks, in need people, schools, and so on but Trump killed that too.

FAFO Trump voting farmers.

[LT Barclay]

12. And yet food prices are still through the roof

[BaronChocula]

14. Oh no! I'm being owned!

[moniss]

17. Also of note about the land values is that

those values are used when determining sufficient collateral for lenders to finance equipment etc. As happened in the late '70's and into the '80's when those values fall lenders can come around demanding that you "pay down your amount financed" so that it will fit with the decreased collateral value. The likelihood that someone has a huge chunk of cash sitting around to reduce the loan balance is fantasy and so the lenders go for repossession. Then the lender sells the equipment for whatever they can get and the balance of what is still owed goes as collectible debt against the remaining assets of the farm. This results in lots of foreclosures on farms as it did then.

[IronLionZion]

18. MAGA is really owning the libs by bringing down grocery prices

[Fil1957]

22. The video never explains WHY commodity prices have crashed.

[IbogaProject]

24. Because our foreign grain buyers took their business elsewhere

Our tariffs have caused foreign buyers to redirect their purchases which are hitting our small farmers the hardest. Now the tariffs didn't target this sector, one of our main exports is staple crops. The lack of demand has lowered the price that "clears the market". Now with less buyers for USA Wheat, Corn, Soybeans, and other staples those prices are going down as farms try to "at least get something" for their effort.