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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

www.abc15.com

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"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago
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'It could break us': Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market
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Alfalfa hay is mainly used as feed for cattle and is big business in Arizona, with Arizona farms exporting over $100 million of alfalfa overseas a year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28499504

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  • krelvar@lemmy.world
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    Good. Stop using our groundwater to grow cattle food for other countries, assholes.

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      There could have been less disruptive ways of doing that though.

      Obviously, it would have been better if these farmers had never started growing alfalfa rather than plants more adapted to dryness.

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        The farmers themselves could’ve taken that initiative, too.

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    Silver lining, Trump saving the planet by stopping trade… who would have guess

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      Oh I’m sure there’s a mountain of monkeys’ paws just curling up a storm somewhere.

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      Fucking lmao

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    It sucks to suck … water indiscriminately from finite aquifers to produce food to ship across the globe to feed beef cattle.

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    TIL the us exports alfalfa to china? What the fuck man why would you do that that sounds fucking insane man

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        This sounds so monumentally stupid I have no advice other than has anyone tried you know, not doing that? Alfalfa? Really? fuck my life bro

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    Oh, a broken clock struck the right hour.

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