Joel Salatin: The Real Impact of Fertilizer Shortages on Farmers | The Next Farm Crisis Starts Now
Stijn Schmitz welcomes Joel Salatin to the show. Joel Salatin is Christian Libertarian Environmentalist Capitalist Lunatic Farmer. Salatin described a deeply distorted US agricultural landscape, where massive oversupply of corn and soybeans coexists with a historic cattle shortage. Half of domestic corn goes to ethanol, not food, and China’s pursuit of self-sufficiency is eroding soybean exports, yet government bailouts keep older, risk-averse farmers locked into unprofitable cropping cycles. This parasitic dependence on subsidies props up unneeded production while stifling the market signals…
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