How big are these soy beans?
Dis big:
Dealing with the same thing up here in Canada with canola farmers. Price peaked at $750/tonne in mid summer before the Chinese tariffs kicked in, it’s down to $600 and still dropping. It’s extremely funny to hear them get mad and demand the liberals drop all tariffs on Chinese EVs, even if they’re only saying it because they’re losing money. (I’ll take a byd though)
They for sure should drop the EV tariff though, it’s such a blunder unless the gov is in the pocket of big oil or something oh wait
Oh 100%, it’s just funny because all the farmers are right wing chuds who are advocating for pro-China policy.
Base and superstructure
They don’t even sell Chinese EV’s here do they? Isn’t it a symbolic fuck you to China at the behest of Washington?
Yeah exactly, we are USA’s dog so we don’t allow cars even if they comply with EU safety standards, there’s no way China is retooling to pass Canada/US standards only to enter the small Canadian market.
The people yearn for the beans
Why did they order big ones? Surely little ones are more efficient
Communism big bean.
I’m dumb, can someone ELI5 why they aren’t just selling the beans here?
China has a pop of 1.4 billion, US has 340 million* (about a 4 - 1 ratio), and China consumes more soy per capita as well, to a factor of about 100.
The US is the world’s largest soy producer. So we have a fuckton of soy we can’t sell, and a surplus so large we can’t eat it, or if we can, it would require a huge cultural change on a food we vilify here.
US is the world’s largest soy producer
Corrected
Isnt most soy going to cattle or some shit anyway?
They do sell the beans here but i believe China made up more than half of the demand for the soybeans US farmers produced in the past so pulling that out has a pretty big effect on our economy
