|
Replies: 29
| visibility 1,501
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Support local farmers
23
23
Mar 8, 2024, 8:42 PM
|
|
When buying fruit and produce in season, local grits, raw milk, etc. if you’ve never farmed or worked on a farm you don’t understand the hours and workload invested. Be thankful.
|
|
|
|
 |
110%er [5041]
TigerPulse: 88%
Posts: 8301
Joined: 12/9/12
|
Re: Support local farmers
2
Mar 8, 2024, 8:45 PM
|
|
Yea I'll be supporting the ones selling great products at farmer's markets or on the side of the road....every farmer I know here in middle GA is absolutely effn loaded....stupid money.
Message was edited by: jsebe10®
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: Support local farmers
11
11
Mar 8, 2024, 8:52 PM
|
|
Everything is not what it seems. I grew up on a peach farm and still work in the industry. I can’t speak to all farms/farmers but a lot of them are struggling and they feed the country
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [10906]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12989
Joined: 8/4/14
|
I seriously doubt that! There are many more farmers just struggling to pay the
6
6
Mar 8, 2024, 11:07 PM
[ in reply to Re: Support local farmers ] |
|
bills. If farming was easy money, everyone would be doing it! Sixty years ago, their were a thousand dairy farms in SC...now there are less than 25!
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: I seriously doubt that! There are many more farmers just struggling to pay the
3
Mar 8, 2024, 11:08 PM
|
|
Agreed
@ longtallsam
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1746]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4362
Joined: 11/4/01
|
There are very successful farmers out there
4
Mar 8, 2024, 11:26 PM
[ in reply to Re: Support local farmers ] |
|
But it's a grind. I see it daily in family and those I know in the grain business. A lot of uncertainty but you do it anyways. Equipment breaks all the time and even on the good new stuff.
To your point on being wealthy, there is a threshold like a lot of business. Once you pass that threshold of being able to invest in more equipment, land, trucks, etc. ypur opportunity to make more grows.
I know some that are insanely wealthy bc of it and others who are broke and just too prideful and scared to give it up. Ride the good with the bad.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [10906]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12989
Joined: 8/4/14
|
Most that you think are wealthy, the farm has been in their family for years!
3
Mar 8, 2024, 11:54 PM
|
|
With land prices now, it's almost impossible to purchase decent farmland at an affordable price.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1746]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4362
Joined: 11/4/01
|
Definitely so .. that land has been owned for years
Mar 9, 2024, 12:05 PM
|
|
And they aquire new land here and there when it makes sense... But those of course are the already wealthier farmers with money on hand.
Also, they are able to lease and crop more land once the pass that threshold, get better equipment, help and their own trucks.
But they work hard to do it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [4596]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 3361
Joined: 8/14/01
|
Re: Support local farmers
1
Mar 9, 2024, 9:56 AM
[ in reply to Re: Support local farmers ] |
|
A lot of Farmers Markets these days are overpriced hippy craft shows, with all "organic" vegetables that look like they just unboxed a crate from Costco and charge $5 for a tomato.
We have some laying chickens and usually have our own gardens for some stuff, but for corn and some other things I like to try to hit the roadside stands on the farm properties themselves. My fishing cabin has a lot of those on the way back from town.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [10346]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12804
Joined: 11/22/03
|
Re: Support local farmers
Mar 9, 2024, 10:08 AM
[ in reply to Re: Support local farmers ] |
|
It may appear that way but not all farmers are loaded. If they are they deserve to be because they feed our ##### on a daily basis. I hope you aren't one of them that thinks if farmers get dwindled down to nothing you can still go to Walmart and buy your food.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [77014]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 28612
Joined: 12/1/18
|
We do where we can. We go to about six different stores
7
7
Mar 8, 2024, 9:02 PM
|
|
now depending on what we need just because of prices.
Can't eat out anymore or go to an ice cream joint because you gotta pay four times what it's worth and then get asked for a tip.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: We do where we can. We go to about six different stores
7
7
Mar 8, 2024, 9:07 PM
|
|
I understand. I was just saying rather than going to a big box store when things are in season, support local so the farmer that who puts all his inputs into the crop all season to hopefully pick a good crop gets a better price than whatever the wholesale market price is.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [77014]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 28612
Joined: 12/1/18
|
I agree while-heartedly.***
5
5
Mar 8, 2024, 9:13 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22811]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5897
Joined: 3/28/09
|
I agree while-heartedly too
5
5
Mar 8, 2024, 9:18 PM
|
|
😂
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [77014]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 28612
Joined: 12/1/18
|
Whole auto corrected me twice
4
Mar 8, 2024, 10:44 PM
|
|
😂
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [55432]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58433
Joined: 7/18/07
|
Re: Whole auto corrected me twice
3
Mar 8, 2024, 10:58 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [55432]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58433
Joined: 7/18/07
|
Re: Support local farmers
4
Mar 8, 2024, 9:28 PM
|
|
I live about 5 miles from the farmers market there on Hwy 321, and about the middle of May I start going there 2 or 3 times a week to get what fruits and vegs they have coming out of parts of Georgia and Florida. About the middle to the end of June they will start bringing in melons and vegies from parts of SC, and that's the only place I shop for fresh fruits, melons, and vegies during the year, plus we'll can a lot of it...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22811]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5897
Joined: 3/28/09
|
The Greenville state farmers market
3
Mar 8, 2024, 9:53 PM
|
|
is on Rutherford Road behind the old Shriners Hospital off North Pleasantburg Drive through a lot of traffic. Quite a trek for us here in Simpsonville and southeastern Greenville County. Wish it was closer since it's a nice one.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [55432]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58433
Joined: 7/18/07
|
Re: The Greenville state farmers market
1
Mar 8, 2024, 10:56 PM
|
|
I wish that it was closer to you bc it is a good thing when you're close enough that it's no more expensive to drive to the farmers market than it is going to the grocery store. The farmers market here in cootlumbia close to where I live, there is one of the sheds that's for local growers only, and that is where I go when thing start coming in, and the prices are much cheaper than the grocery store and a better product...
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: The Greenville state farmers market
1
Mar 8, 2024, 11:00 PM
|
|
I’ve been there. Everyone has different opportunities depending on where they live. The farmers market there is MUCH better than it was 20 years ago
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [32737]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 6280
Joined: 10/1/12
|
Re: Support local farmers
6
6
Mar 8, 2024, 9:38 PM
|
|
The state of Pennsylvania is trying to put Amish farmer Amos Miller through the ringer.
Legal proceedings against him are in progress. I'll be supporting him, and will also be looking into good family-owned farms here in Virginia.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: Support local farmers
1
Mar 8, 2024, 10:03 PM
|
|
If you don’t mind me asking, what part of Virginia? Southwest, northeast, etc?
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [32737]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 6280
Joined: 10/1/12
|
Re: Support local farmers
2
Mar 8, 2024, 10:08 PM
|
|
Washington DC suburbs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: Support local farmers
2
Mar 8, 2024, 10:10 PM
|
|
Ok, I travel to southwest Virginia every couple weeks where peaches, apples, cabbage, pumpkins, and cattle are the main crops. Good luck living near DC
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [7535]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4399
Joined: 10/28/17
|
Re: Support local farmers
5
5
Mar 8, 2024, 9:44 PM
|
|
Its not just the veghie consumables. Don't forget the landscape nurseries, sod, and live stock. There are big ornamental tree farms, dairy, live stock, and sod farms owned by great Clemson grads in our local areas.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1798]
TigerPulse: 99%
Posts: 795
Joined: 10/3/21
|
Re: Support local farmers
3
Mar 8, 2024, 10:02 PM
|
|
Yes, absolutely
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6964]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4343
Joined: 1/26/10
|
Re: Support local farmers
3
Mar 8, 2024, 10:59 PM
|
|
Yep support farmers quickly because soon every square foot of farmland, the cows that graze on it and the crops that grow on it will be sold out from under us by crooked Joe and the Democrats to blackrock and the Chinese
Wake up America....your country is selling you out
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [55432]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58433
Joined: 7/18/07
|
Re: Support local farmers
1
Mar 8, 2024, 11:06 PM
|
|
Selling it out or stealing it to build high-rises on to borrow more money on it than it's worth and defaulting on the loan. The little guy or the hardest working folks that this country was built off their backs has always ended up paying for it going and coming...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Walk-On [116]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 153
Joined: 1/7/11
|
Re: Support local farmers
1
Mar 9, 2024, 12:03 AM
|
|
Amen!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [90820]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 45503
Joined: 10/18/09
|
Always forget to do
1
Mar 9, 2024, 12:48 AM
|
|
but thx for reminder!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 29
| visibility 1,501
|
|
|
50
