Damian Mason

why do we have to go through this fire drill every time there's a downturn when we know that USDA policy, since the 80s, has always stepped up and thrown money at ag? And then farm people get very bristly. Well, that doesn't make us whole. You don't understand. You're not a real farmer. You don't understand my expense structure. Yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest.

why do we have to go through this fire drill every time there's a downturn when we know that USDA policy, since the 80s, has always stepped up and thrown money at ag? And then farm people get very bristly. Well, that doesn't make us whole. You don't understand. You're not a real farmer. You don't understand my expense structure. Yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest.

40 years. And he was on my show. And he says, you know what? USDA policy since the 80s. We haven't allowed people to just have a big washout. There's going to be some prop up. So, yeah, we're in a downturn. But unless history for the last 37 years isn't accurate, there's going to be programs that swing in here. There's going to be consolidation. We're at the FarmCon conference. We just saw this.

40 years. And he was on my show. And he says, you know what? USDA policy since the 80s. We haven't allowed people to just have a big washout. There's going to be some prop up. So, yeah, we're in a downturn. But unless history for the last 37 years isn't accurate, there's going to be programs that swing in here. There's going to be consolidation. We're at the FarmCon conference. We just saw this.

40 years. And he was on my show. And he says, you know what? USDA policy since the 80s. We haven't allowed people to just have a big washout. There's going to be some prop up. So, yeah, we're in a downturn. But unless history for the last 37 years isn't accurate, there's going to be programs that swing in here. There's going to be consolidation. We're at the FarmCon conference. We just saw this.

We've got people in here that farm 20,000 acres. They're looking to expand. There's going to be consolidation. We just saw a graph. I think you might have been in the room. It said 89,000 in 2022, so three years ago. 89,000 farms of the 2 million produced 75% of all the dollar value of crops. It's probably down to less than 80,000.

We've got people in here that farm 20,000 acres. They're looking to expand. There's going to be consolidation. We just saw a graph. I think you might have been in the room. It said 89,000 in 2022, so three years ago. 89,000 farms of the 2 million produced 75% of all the dollar value of crops. It's probably down to less than 80,000.

We've got people in here that farm 20,000 acres. They're looking to expand. There's going to be consolidation. We just saw a graph. I think you might have been in the room. It said 89,000 in 2022, so three years ago. 89,000 farms of the 2 million produced 75% of all the dollar value of crops. It's probably down to less than 80,000.

Okay. So that was the projection. Even lower. I think that was the projection for like by 2030. Okay. Either way, we're in that 45 to 75, whatever number. The point is that's going to continue. And the consolidation has been going on since the 1930s. We hit peak farm in 1935 with like 8 million farms. And now we're down to less than 2. And of the 2 million that we have, again, 50,000 of them are

Okay. So that was the projection. Even lower. I think that was the projection for like by 2030. Okay. Either way, we're in that 45 to 75, whatever number. The point is that's going to continue. And the consolidation has been going on since the 1930s. We hit peak farm in 1935 with like 8 million farms. And now we're down to less than 2. And of the 2 million that we have, again, 50,000 of them are

Okay. So that was the projection. Even lower. I think that was the projection for like by 2030. Okay. Either way, we're in that 45 to 75, whatever number. The point is that's going to continue. And the consolidation has been going on since the 1930s. We hit peak farm in 1935 with like 8 million farms. And now we're down to less than 2. And of the 2 million that we have, again, 50,000 of them are

cranking out three-quarters of the stuff. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest. USDA policy still favors small farms. The New York Times won't tell you that because the NPR says, oh, and all these bailouts go to factory farms, whatever that means because it's just a meaningless term they came up with. In general, USDA always puts caps. Yeah.

cranking out three-quarters of the stuff. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest. USDA policy still favors small farms. The New York Times won't tell you that because the NPR says, oh, and all these bailouts go to factory farms, whatever that means because it's just a meaningless term they came up with. In general, USDA always puts caps. Yeah.

cranking out three-quarters of the stuff. I'm not being mean. I'm being honest. USDA policy still favors small farms. The New York Times won't tell you that because the NPR says, oh, and all these bailouts go to factory farms, whatever that means because it's just a meaningless term they came up with. In general, USDA always puts caps. Yeah.

It can't take more than a certain amount, so it favors smaller operators. You can be a smaller operator. You can be that person that farms 400 acres, has a job in town. You're probably going to be able to play some USDA policy, get your crop insurance, do all that, make money. What I think the big picture is...

It can't take more than a certain amount, so it favors smaller operators. You can be a smaller operator. You can be that person that farms 400 acres, has a job in town. You're probably going to be able to play some USDA policy, get your crop insurance, do all that, make money. What I think the big picture is...

It can't take more than a certain amount, so it favors smaller operators. You can be a smaller operator. You can be that person that farms 400 acres, has a job in town. You're probably going to be able to play some USDA policy, get your crop insurance, do all that, make money. What I think the big picture is...

My big predictions are, Tanner and Corey, that I think we're going to start seeing a shift. And it could be the RFK influencer. It could be the media, social media influence. We've been focused on quantity for 100 years. And by God, we figured it out. We have mountains, literally mountains of corn and soybeans and wheat and name the commodity.

My big predictions are, Tanner and Corey, that I think we're going to start seeing a shift. And it could be the RFK influencer. It could be the media, social media influence. We've been focused on quantity for 100 years. And by God, we figured it out. We have mountains, literally mountains of corn and soybeans and wheat and name the commodity.

My big predictions are, Tanner and Corey, that I think we're going to start seeing a shift. And it could be the RFK influencer. It could be the media, social media influence. We've been focused on quantity for 100 years. And by God, we figured it out. We have mountains, literally mountains of corn and soybeans and wheat and name the commodity.