Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | flyboytoo - 4/7/2025 17:11
You obviously are looking at 6 months to 2 yrs. ago. Things have really changed in the last 3 months. Since Trump, since planting intentions, since tariffs, since bank operating loan for '25 just being completed by most farmers. Falling crop prices. Looking pretty bleak going forward. Now stock market crashing, Gold down hard, even Bitcoin is taking a hit. Musk and Tesla implossion. People protesting in the streets. Where does it end? Fancy equipment and big shops you mention, but how many are still financed and farmers making pmts.?? You don't know the other man's situation.
Who’s farming with Musk, Tesla, gold, and Bitcoin?
What’s changed in the last 3 months, or the last year? I have the same fields, same shop, same bins, same corn price, same alfalfa price, same people, same interest rates, same customers, same seeding plans, same harvest plans. I was going to say same tractors but we added one. Loan balances are a little lower, alfalfa movement is a little better, corn is moving fast, carryover is looking kind of tight. What’s so bleak? It looks the same as last year, if not slightly better. |
Something certainly being exposed with all the wailing
