Arkansas Farmers Beg Uncle Sam for Help

Sunday, September 07, 2025

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis. Almost everything that could go wrong for Arkansas farmers went wrong this year, leaving many facing bankruptcy or even the closure of farms that have been passed down for generations. A dismal global market and plunging commodity prices mean there's little hope of breaking even, even as input costs soar because of inflation and tariffs -- on top of bad weather earlier in the year.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 11:31 AM | 38 COMMENTS | permalink

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A dismal global market and plunging commodity prices mean there's little hope of breaking even, even as input costs soar because of inflation and tariffs

Everything the decomposing------------------- touches dies.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-06 01:18 PM

Pretty ------ economic system if one dumbass can bring the whole thing down.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-06 01:20 PM

Pretty ------ form of government that elects someone to be that dumbass, knowing full well he intends to bring the whole thing down.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-06 01:21 PM

On Tuesday, 5 Nov 2024, 64.20% of eligible Arkansans voted for Dummkopf Trumpf. In 2020: 62.40%; in 2016: 60.57%.

Racism and xenophobia really pays off, doesn't it Arkansans?

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-06 03:40 PM

Farm subsidies warp the free market.

They provide perverse Incentives.

The discipline of the free market will restore sanity.

Some people Will get hurt unfortunately.

Voting for a Criminal has Consequences.

So does being Stupid....

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-06 06:28 PM

Farm subsidies warp the free market.

There is no such thing as a "free market".

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The assertion "there is no such thing as a free market" is a critique arguing that all markets are inherently regulated and shaped by human-made rules and institutions, making a truly "free" market, one without government or political influence, a theoretical impossibility. Arguments for this view highlight that a functional market requires a state to enforce property rights and contracts, and that even markets considered "free" are built on regulations (like minimum wage laws, bans on child labor, or safety standards) and are subject to the influence of powerful entities like corporations and wealthy individuals.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-06 06:50 PM

---- off Russian ----

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-06 07:46 PM

#6 That sounds like the stuff Snoofy says.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-06 08:09 PM

Too bad so sad. How's it feel to pwn us intellectual liberals Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ROFLMMFAO HEHEHEHEHE THAT'S HILARIOUS.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-06 08:11 PM

Point and laugh at the magat scum.

Eat ---- and die America has no room for takers.

Enjoy what you voted for

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-07 12:19 AM

Well, MAGAts, you can (and do) live, breathe, and vote ignorance and hate.
But you sure can't eat it.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-07 05:15 AM

F*&^ 'em.

People like them whine about having to "bail out" student loan holders.

Now they're whining about their own bailout.

Too bad. If you're a miserable, ignorant dips*&^ you reap what you sow.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-07 12:05 PM

"Arkansas Farmers Beg Uncle Sam for Help"

They can join ICE and get a $50K handout.
What's the problem?

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 12:16 PM

"People like them"

This us-vs-them mentality is why the top .01% have been able and will continue to fleece the rest of us.

Whether it's red vs blue, or urban vs less densely populated areas, or different countries, or whatever, it's always easier to blame the other while claiming the higher ground.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-09-07 12:19 PM

This us-vs-them mentality is why the top .01% have been able and will continue to fleece the rest of us.

Which is by design and the way they like it.

And now regardless of what you voted for we all get to enjoy the Great FAFO.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-07 12:47 PM

I'm just as unhappy as anyone else about how most of these farmers voted. But if they don't get help it will simply put their property and even more power into the hands of oligarchs. The best thing Federal Dems could do is unite behind a relief package, and make sure the farmers know who is working hardest for them to get the help.

#16 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-07 03:12 PM

"But if they don't get help "

Are they gonna ask for help from Democrats, or just from the Republican Government they voted for?

We can't make them accept Democrat help. Not that there is any, but that's a different problem!

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 03:28 PM

s.yimg.com

Why aren't they wearing their MAGA hats?

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-07 03:32 PM

#17

At this point I think they'd take help where ever they can get it. The optics of Dems looking just as vindictive as Trump are not a good look.

#19 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-07 04:01 PM

"The optics of Dems looking just as vindictive as Trump are not a good look."

Those "optics" are beyond Democrat control.

Expecting them to be okay with getting help from Democrats is like expecting Al-Qaeda to let a woman doctor fix their gunshot wound.

Ask Eberly if you don't believe me.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 05:55 PM

14 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

Oh please. Spare me.

Trump was a known quantity. A known conman pile of s^%# quantity whose record is that of poor, selfish decisions and failure whose plan was that of misery and pain for the majority.

These idiots just thought they wouldn't be a victim of their own gullible stupidity.

So I really don't want to hear their whining when they are.

You know how I would have some sympathy and understanding? If they weren't ok with others being subjected to misery and pain as long as they're not.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-07 08:32 PM

------.

Let the lazy ----- go bankrupt.

They don't get to vote in Tariffs that screw all of us then get bailed out.

Those pieces of human trash can go live under a bridge and eat out of garbage cans for all I care.

#22 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-07 09:45 PM

You see whatsleft the problem with your "solution " is they will credit ------- and the magat scum party for their salvation

Biden tried that. The vast majority of his spending programs (ie chips act, renewable energy) went to red states

It accomplished zero in terms of dem support. The magat scum politicians voted against it then they took credit for it

Now ------- has pulled all of those programs through the big -------- bill that is why manufacturing jobs are cratering

The moronic magat scum have more than enough proof as to who is to blame for their situation but blame Dems anyway

F them. I am tired of my blue state money subsidizing religious zealot governments in -------- states

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-07 10:02 PM

You see whatsleft the problem with your "solution " is they will credit ------- and the magat scum party for their salvation

Biden tried that. The vast majority of his spending programs (ie chips act, renewable energy) went to red states

It accomplished zero in terms of dem support. The magat scum politicians voted against it then they took credit for it

Now ------- has pulled all of those programs through the big -------- bill that is why manufacturing jobs are cratering

The moronic magat scum have more than enough proof as to who is to blame for their situation but blame Dems anyway

F them. I am tired of my blue state money subsidizing religious zealot governments in -------- states

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-07 10:22 PM

Bill Gates has his checkbook ready. Make him a deal. He only owns 275,000 acres of farmland.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-08 06:32 AM

New reality show - "This Isn't What I Voted For." It's like Survivor, but the island is a different red state each week.

#26 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-09-08 09:42 AM

6 That sounds like the stuff Snoofy says.

#8 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Because that Snoofy is correct.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-08 01:44 PM

"I'm just as unhappy as anyone else about how most of these farmers voted. But if they don't get help it will simply put their property and even more power into the hands of oligarchs. The best thing Federal Dems could do is unite behind a relief package, and make sure the farmers know who is working hardest for them to get the help."

1) FAFO. We tried empathy and it was clearly explained what they were voting for. They are destroying our country. At this point I have to look out for my own family and I'm fresh out of empathy for hateful people who think a felon should run the country.

2) Somehow, even if the Democrats give them a lifeline, they will still insult the left, call us communists and trannies, and thank Republicans for the -------- em'.

#28 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-09-08 03:25 PM

And the irony is that the Republicans have for years been arguing that we needed to get rid of the 'death tax' (AKA, inheritance tax) so as to protect small to medium sized family farms from having to be sold to pay off the taxes when the owner dies. Well, now the policies of their party is forcing the sale of those same farms while the owners are still alive and kicking.

OCU

#29 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-09-08 05:03 PM

This was all by design. (Censored) these small farmers. Let them fail and let the mega farms roll in buying the farmland for pennies on the dollar as Trump and co have planned. MAGA just don't get it. MAGA farmers REALLY don't get it. They are pansies. Dems are who actually support farm subsidies. They continually vote against their own interests.

#30 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-09-08 06:01 PM

"This was all by design. (Censored) these small farmers. Let them fail and let the mega farms roll in buying the farmland for pennies on the dollar as Trump and co have planned."

Two things.

1. You are right.
2. How can we get them to believe you?

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-08 06:22 PM

You Can't.

They are Cultists and Trump is Jim Jones.

Reason won't reach them.

Nothing will.

That's why it's called Cult like behavior.

#32 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-08 07:04 PM

#32: www.dictionary.com

#33 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-08 07:08 PM

How many farmer suicides is the decomposing------------------- going to cause this time around?

www.forbes.com

#34 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-09 02:40 AM

Bill Gates has his checkbook ready. Make him a deal. He only owns 275,000 acres of farmland.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Oh oh oh now do JD Vance and his VC firm's stake in AcreTrader.

#35 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-09 11:21 AM

Bill Gates has his checkbook ready. Make him a deal. He only owns 275,000 acres of farmland.
#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So you're actually advising the struggling farmers to sell out to the billionaire lib who frequented Lolita Island.

This, this is what you voted for.

Take another victory lap.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-09 11:24 AM

2. How can we get them to believe you?

#31 | Posted by snoofy

If they don't already, they never will.

This is all going exactly the direction I've been saying it would - MAGA will finally realize they've been had (or will at least acknowledge they've lost everything they were trying to maintain) and will get even more bitter and angrier...at Dems/trans kids/gays/"communists"/libruls/anyone but themselves.

The real danger will be when MAGA has nothing left to lose because what little they had was taken from them. The majority will never acknowledge it was taken by the very people they followed willingly. They'll never acknowledge their role in their life's collapse.

They will continue to listen to those leaders who will then point to the Dems/trans/gays/libruls/anyone but themselves who still have something, and that will be the new target. 25% of our populace will try to eat the rest with the backing of the state. Suburbanites will be particularly targeted as the final remnants of the middle class.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-09 11:30 AM

2. How can we get them to believe you?

#31 | Posted by snoofy

As already stated you can't. My cousin dates a real old timer out in the sticks. They go to a bar in a 4 corners town with a flasher. All his friends are MAGA and he gets into politics with them every single time. He leans left. His biggest question to them - "What has the GOP done for you?"

#38 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-09-10 10:40 AM

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