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Just come and get them, Geno, before the eagles eat them all!
Just got the word from one of my retail markets, they are shutting down. Nobody shopping for fresh food. This is going to get ugly if it keeps up. If you ate talking potatoes, this is not good for Idaho. Idaho normally ships half of it's crop as fresh pack. About 10% is grown for seed and 40% is processed. Without fresh pack sales, Idaho growers will be hit hard. The second largest potato growing is Washington. Washington processes about 87% of it's crop. French fries are the number one processed item. Most all of the potatoes processed in Washington are grown under contracts
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There are no hog farms that could feed all this ahead of their less perishable feeds?
This whole thing puzzles me.
Without the bail out would these guys have scrambled like grain producers with acres and acres of 35% corn...
This is looking like another demonstration of how government intervention undermines markets innate drive to adapt and survive.
I get that these are extreme circumstances, but this is waste on a profound scale.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Dutch put me down for some of the mudbugs. Know how to take care of that problem. 
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How many of you have looked into the SBA administrated CARES Act loan\grant program? It’s virtually a no doc application under $200,000K. This includes sole proprietors. The site is up and running. All you need is an EIN# and a bank account.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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This kind of crap is killing the farmers here.
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How many of you have looked into the SBA administrated CARES Act loan\grant program? It’s virtually a no doc application under $200,000K. This includes sole proprietors. The site is up and running. All you need is an EIN# and a bank account. We’re in line, but that doesn’t help me move product. If we don’t start moving fish into people’s mouth’s PDQ, it’s going to start stinking bad around here. But, I’m on it. Three conference calls today with customers, all trying to figure out how to get it to work. Tried to talk to a custom processor yesterday, and they are slammed with orders from various internet distributors. No time to mess with anything new. Grocery stores are getting bypassed, big time; people do not want to go grocery shopping in the PNW. EVERYBODY, his uncle and his dog is trying to make home delivery work right now. If you’re laid off, grub hub, ubereats, etc are on a massive growth spurt. Lots of drivers wanted.
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Just come and get them, Geno, before the eagles eat them all!
Just got the word from one of my retail markets, they are shutting down. Nobody shopping for fresh food. This is going to get ugly if it keeps up. If you ate talking potatoes, this is not good for Idaho. Idaho normally ships half of it's crop as fresh pack. About 10% is grown for seed and 40% is processed. Without fresh pack sales, Idaho growers will be hit hard. The second largest potato growing is Washington. Washington processes about 87% of it's crop. French fries are the number one processed item. Most all of the potatoes processed in Washington are grown under contracts Stores have a fair bit of stuff here, but ground beef and potatoes are usually gone.
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This kind of crap is killing the farmers here. Always has. Bet the imports of agriculture goods have not slowed much though.
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Florida sees about 110 million domestic tourist,11 million over seas tourist and about 3.5 million Canadians a season.
The peak of the season is between January and April.
They sent them all home early.
It's the fresh product that 125,000,000 people would have been eating if they were here.
Then there is the schools and restaurants that would be filled with locals stuffin their faces too if they were open, but they are not....
I'd suppose the local canneries are running full production through out the growing season here as always.
Being there is a timely matter involved with harvest and canning there is no way they could ramp up to take all that extra product all at once. The 110,000,000 Americans would still be eating something, somewhere.
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Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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How many of you have looked into the SBA administrated CARES Act loan\grant program? It’s virtually a no doc application under $200,000K. This includes sole proprietors. The site is up and running. All you need is an EIN# and a bank account. We’re in line, but that doesn’t help me move product. If we don’t start moving fish into people’s mouth’s PDQ, it’s going to start stinking bad around here. But, I’m on it. Three conference calls today with customers, all trying to figure out how to get it to work. Tried to talk to a custom processor yesterday, and they are slammed with orders from various internet distributors. No time to mess with anything new. Grocery stores are getting bypassed, big time; people do not want to go grocery shopping in the PNW. EVERYBODY, his uncle and his dog is trying to make home delivery work right now. If you’re laid off, grub hub, ubereats, etc are on a massive growth spurt. Lots of drivers wanted. I'd love to see some here in our stores. I got a fresh salmon filet here today, but it was just about an orphan.
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Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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I'm puzzled...  Did people quit eating? I was wondering the same thing. Seems like all that they'd have to do is repackage it for the retail market instead of the wholesale market. But then I remembered that everyone is laid off of work and pretty much broke. I know it's no more filet mignon for me for a while.
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I'm puzzled... Did people quit eating? I was wondering the same thing. Seems like all that they'd have to do is repackage it for the retail market instead of the wholesale market. But then I remembered that everyone is laid off of work and pretty much broke. I know it's no more filet mignon for me for a while. LOL...I asked for an estimate on a pound of stew meat today. 
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Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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The 110,000,000 Americans would still be eating something, somewhere.
Yep, and that somewhere is somewhere other than Florida.
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I would put a GPS IN OR ON MY COWS.
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LOL...I asked for an estimate on a pound of stew meat today. Everything is crazy right now. Cattle have had the bottom drop out... Feeder steers sold in some places for under a $1 a pound last week. 
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There are no hog farms that could feed all this ahead of their less perishable feeds?
This whole thing puzzles me.
Without the bail out would these guys have scrambled like grain producers with acres and acres of 35% corn...
This is looking like another demonstration of how government intervention undermines markets innate drive to adapt and survive.
I get that these are extreme circumstances, but this is waste on a profound scale.
Maybe their hands were tied by crop insurance regulations.
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There are no hog farms that could feed all this ahead of their less perishable feeds?
This whole thing puzzles me.
Without the bail out would these guys have scrambled like grain producers with acres and acres of 35% corn...
This is looking like another demonstration of how government intervention undermines markets innate drive to adapt and survive.
I get that these are extreme circumstances, but this is waste on a profound scale.
Maybe their hands were tied by crop insurance regulations. fuggin' regulators and revenuers. So Jim, honestly, does it work sorta like car insurance. If your damage is at a certain level they "total" your crop and tell you to plow it under? Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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Just come and get them, Geno, before the eagles eat them all!
Just got the word from one of my retail markets, they are shutting down. Nobody shopping for fresh food. This is going to get ugly if it keeps up. That got my wheels turning. I'm going to look into how a long a drive it is and maybe I can make a trip with the little pick up and cargo trailer. Get friends to donate ice chests, maybe get someone to come along as co-driver. Don't know if there's any regulations I'll get stopped for at the bug station, heck they might even be shut down. Let me check out a few things. Any hog farms around there you can sell some to? There's a fish back east with a common name of "hogchoker" that they used to harvest in great numbers just for that purpose. Even if I can't get up there, I wish you the best. Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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Generally the crop has to be destroyed to recieve payment.
Generally you may not destroy said crop in a manner that would make you or someone else money.
Plowed under is normally how it goes.
Not sure how it works with fresh crops....but I am sure its similar.
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Everything is shut down in the state, no personal travel. We’re still in ok shape for a couple of weeks, and if we have to, we’ll just turn the hot spigot off and put everything in hibernation. But there’s no money in that....
Fortunately, it looks like we found a way to get at least some product moving this week, so that’ll help. But dang, it’s like pulling teeth.....
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