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LiberalArkie

(18,340 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:05 AM Yesterday

Florida farmers now plowing over perfectly good tomatoes as Trump's tariff policies cause prices to plummet

Sun, June 8, 2025

Tony DiMare’s family owns 4,000 acres of tomato farms across Florida and California. Sadly, his Florida crops are not looking good — mowed over and left to rot, like tomato vines across the state.

DiMare told WSVN 7 Miami that President Donald Trump’s tariff and immigration policies are driving farmers to abandon their crops.

In January, he warned that Trump’s crackdown on migrants would squeeze farmers, who rely on migrants to pick produce.

“We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country,” he told the Financial Post.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-farmers-now-plowing-over-130000347.html

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Florida farmers now plowing over perfectly good tomatoes as Trump's tariff policies cause prices to plummet (Original Post) LiberalArkie Yesterday OP
Sounds like he voted for this disaster. Keep plowing. JanMichael Yesterday #1
I'm sure he'll be waiting for his government hand-out nt newdeal2 Yesterday #3
Of course! He's eligible for "REAL American," MAGA WELFARE hand-outs. Maru Kitteh Yesterday #16
Exactly! CanonRay Yesterday #15
"We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country," werdna Yesterday #2
I believe they really are wanting to be able to bring the Latinos in as slave labor thus not allowing LiberalArkie Yesterday #6
That was my thought as well Bettie Yesterday #9
FAFO malaise Yesterday #4
You can't have it both ways, stupid farmer dude. mwmisses4289 Yesterday #5
Yes, they can. They just want the farms to be great they used to be. LiberalArkie Yesterday #7
Reap what you sow dalton99a Yesterday #8
The headline is misleading, gab13by13 Yesterday #10
Hire republicans who now get their jobs back that the immigrants took. Norrrm Yesterday #11
American farmers always plow under crops when prices are too low. Squaredeal Yesterday #12
Good fertilizer LiberalArkie Yesterday #14
Why can't they do that to broccoli and asparagus? Wonder Why Yesterday #13

Maru Kitteh

(30,214 posts)
16. Of course! He's eligible for "REAL American," MAGA WELFARE hand-outs.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:14 AM
Yesterday

White farmers are like their Knights of the Crusade.

werdna

(1,050 posts)
2. "We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country,"
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:15 AM
Yesterday

"We have to have our cake and eat it too". Well they got their cake and now they find it was made with sawdust. Wise up, wake up.

LiberalArkie

(18,340 posts)
6. I believe they really are wanting to be able to bring the Latinos in as slave labor thus not allowing
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:28 AM
Yesterday

them to migrate here themselves but too be owned like the migrant laborers of the 40's-80's.


Watch the entire original broadcast of one of the most celebrated documentaries of all time, 1960's "Harvest of Shame," in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the plight of America's farm workers.





Bettie

(18,365 posts)
9. That was my thought as well
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:35 AM
Yesterday

They want workers who work for minimal feed and shelter, with no other option.

mwmisses4289

(1,234 posts)
5. You can't have it both ways, stupid farmer dude.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:27 AM
Yesterday

You voted for this, and now you are upset because you are having to suffer with the rest of us? We told you what would happen, but you didn't want hear it. Oh, well.

LiberalArkie

(18,340 posts)
7. Yes, they can. They just want the farms to be great they used to be.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:31 AM
Yesterday


Watch the entire original broadcast of one of the most celebrated documentaries of all time, 1960's "Harvest of Shame," in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the plight of America's farm workers.

gab13by13

(28,400 posts)
10. The headline is misleading,
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:37 AM
Yesterday

The short term effect of Krasnov's tariffs on Mexico was that Mexico bombarded the US with tomatoes before the tariff went into effect.

The actual result of the tariffs will be to raise food prices now that the tariffs have been imposed. In addition, Krasnov's war on undocumented farm workers leaves owners with no one to pick their crops further raising the price of tomatoes.



Squaredeal

(657 posts)
12. American farmers always plow under crops when prices are too low.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:48 AM
Yesterday

The article , to me, is somewhat confusing.
From what I understood from reading the story, Mexican farm goods are still coming in because production costs for them are low enough to add the tariff and still undercut Floridian farmers because U.S. farm labor costs have now increased to the point that farming some types of crops are no longer profitable due to fewer worker availability, hence higher labor costs to pick the crops.

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