I know that your comment was sarcastic, but Canada supplies a whack of potatoes to the US annually. Nearly 2.5B in frozen French fries alone. There is a marginal potato trade the other way, nominally in processed products. Like Stonemill Kitchens amazing red potato salad, which I’m not allowed to fucking buy because its American and I’m craving the shit out of that stuff.
At the beginning of the year there was a donation of 4.000 tons of potatoes in Berlin. Apparently it was a redicously good harvest of potatoes and the price fell so much that it wasn’t profitable to even sell them anymore.
‘recent development beyond our control’…
Yeah this happened by itself and was totally unpredictable…
At least they’re trying to feed people with the unsold produce…
those look like cows, so only the cows are eating it.
They’re dumping it or selling for a lower price to farmers.
It says right there in the pic they want to distribute it to food banks.
Whoops sorry,for some reason it showed a cropped image to me
I thought most people in Idaho voted for this.
Rexburg is the biggest town in Madison County, Idaho. Here are the county results for the 11/5/24 elections:
It’s highly likely that this farmer voted for the regime that is fucking him up.
Rexburg is a college town
eh, it’s hardly berkley. it’s a college town, yeah, but the college is byu-idaho so hardly a bastion of liberalism
Yeah, BYU Idaho. Rexburg is also 95% LDS.
probably the second most conservative college i’ve seen
It’s beyond their control if they didn’t vote for it
Why aren’t people eating potatoes? Is this just the demand drop from Canada?
Or a supply chain issue because a processing facility has to close cause all their workers were deported…
or scared away from the country because of ICE/deportations.
I know that your comment was sarcastic, but Canada supplies a whack of potatoes to the US annually. Nearly 2.5B in frozen French fries alone. There is a marginal potato trade the other way, nominally in processed products. Like Stonemill Kitchens amazing red potato salad, which I’m not allowed to fucking buy because its American and I’m craving the shit out of that stuff.
At the beginning of the year there was a donation of 4.000 tons of potatoes in Berlin. Apparently it was a redicously good harvest of potatoes and the price fell so much that it wasn’t profitable to even sell them anymore.