Minnesota to try and ban gas powered equipment

[Citydude]

I posted this in the Big Bud thread, so I'll post it here, too...

Biggest foreign owner of U.S. 'ag land' isn't who you think

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst is alarmed by how much agricultural acreage is owned by foreign countries. Guebert addresses this hot topic.

www.yahoo.com

What a great article. Basically saying nothing to see here. Move along because China is benign. BS.

 

[Citydude]

To put it in perspective for those that won't read the article...

how much of America’s 900 million arable acres are owned by Chinese nationals?

Chinese entities own 0.04 of 1 percent of total U.S. farmland.

Why should our adversaries own any property in our country?

 

[Pixguy]

Cattle is big here, and most of the state produces range beef cattle. But the entire Pecos river valley is planted in alfalfa hay to support the dairy industry and the bulk of the dairies are in those areas also.

What state has the most cattle in it? Texas? I was surprised to hear it was Florida

 

[MossRoad]

What a great article. Basically saying nothing to see here. Move along because China is benign. BS.

No. It's not BS. It gives the facts.

 

[Gee Ray]

"It's certinly possible" That is all this old tractor driver, tree farm owner, near 20 year Kubota owner and a 5 clan Scott asked to know.

You do not need to know my budget, because that is my business not your business, ever, period.

Never mistake a Scott for not havng money to spend, they are by heritage, very careful when it comes to actually spending any money. We are thrifty.

Great story!!!

It wasn't meant to be funny. It's a pretty accurate assessment of some of the comments. Here, there are factories and warehouses going up on farmland. In town, the old factories are being torn down and/or repurposed and new smaller factories and research facilities are being built on the old grounds.

Who's selling the farmland for factories? Farmers.

I know in plant city Florida. The strawberry fields are turning into warehouses and parking lots and I don’t mean a few of them. But many of the fields are now paved over. Many of the areas that ones were orange groves, cow pastures, dairies are now subdivisions. for example, in Tampa Florida, there was a dairy that is entirely covered with Amazon warehouses. The land across the street is now an Amazon warehouse. The land on the next road over is also now Amazon.

It is frightening at the speed that these tilt wall warehouses are built.

Up in the villages, they built an $80 million factory to form and build houses out of concrete. The wall sections are picked up and carried to the construction site. And set in place just like a tilt up wall.

So in Florida once was open it’s no longer that way in many many places around the state. Another problem is the solar farms that are being built everywhere. Damn they are ugly.

 

[MossRoad]

I'd rather have solar farms than wind farms as far as looks go. But the sun doesn't shine at night, and sometimes the wind does blow at night.

In all truth, I'd rather see nuclear plants than either of them.

 

[Citydude]

No. It's not BS. It gives the facts.

Yes, your correct. It points to the fact that Chinese Nationals are buying properties in our country. Which is BS, they should not be allowed to do so.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I'd rather have solar farms than wind farms as far as looks go. But the sun doesn't shine at night, and sometimes the wind does blow at night.

In all truth, I'd rather see nuclear plants than either of them.

This. This right here.

 

[MossRoad]

Yes, your correct. It points to the fact that Chinese Nationals are buying properties in our country. Which is BS, they should not be allowed to do so.

That's the swell thing about America. Everything is for sale.

 

[Hay Dude]

Perhaps the rust belt simply is urbanizing and dairies are leaving. Here are some facts from my state department of agriculture regarding dairies:

“The 130 dairy farms of New Mexico rank 1st overall in the US for average herd size of 2,357 cows per farm with the State's overall herd size of ~350,000 cows. New Mexico ranks 5th in the nation in cheese production, making 962,449,000 lbs.”

Not what the diary farmers milking cows tell me.
But what would I know, I only sold hay to them for 20 years.