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Who needs farmers? I get my food from the supermarket

Australia has this problem where there is a duopoly they dont pay the farmer enough and overcharge the consumers as well

First title: GIVE ME MY 0.76 CARROTS NOW!!! second title: Why farmers always win-no matter the cost Third title:how to destroy a country..using rice

Agriculture is almost like having a army, you don't want to rely exclusively in the protection of other countries

Never expect a video with the title "I Want $0.76 off Carrots- NOW!!", but here we are, and I love it

everyone knows hoser was short 76 cents on his groceries and came here to complain

Farmers also have the stereotype of hard-working, honest people. Most people have a positive view of them, as opposed to other professions like bankers lawyers... that would have a hard time mustering the same level of popular support.

“Farmers always win” Stalin and collectivization: allow us to introduce ourselves

In Australia our problem is that the two main supermarkets buy the produce for cheap then sell it for 5 times the price. Because we only have two main companies running it all the consumers and the farmers get fucked.

As a Candadian I can say the Dairy Cartel is no joke. Real cheese is a luxury good.

Sugar in the US is a bad example. Most US foods are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup which is derived from corn, not sugarcane. Corn grows all across the country.

There's so much more on the line here geopolitical wise. If our food security isn't given from reliable sources like our own country (or at least a close ally) we're at the mercy of whoever ships us our food!

It's backfired in India though. Instead of switching to other crops they stick to the same over supplied crops selling to the govt. *The consequence* : The water level is depleted so much that agriculture is becoming increasingly more expensive and since the same crops are oversupplied they've gotten even cheaper creating a burden on the govt to keep buying wasteful amounts of food.

Agriculture is one of the things that even if the rest of the currency fails the government have to keep operating, since it needs people to be fed.

One thing to keep in mind is what inherently tends to happen in free market situations, which is consolidation. Once all your food is made by the same few producers, they can set price, and you can't not eat

Anytime this man uploads, you know you're gonna get one of the most amazing videos ever explaining a really difficult subject

As a CAP policy analyst i was so weirdly excited you covered this 😂 fun fact: cheddar cheese is so popular and cheap in Ireland because it is an easy method of using up the leftovers from making whey protein powder, which is worth a lot more per gram :D

Can't believe you listed France twice but not Poland even once

As a Farmer I noticed a couple of things. The Claim That Farmers make Bank is not necessarily true, last year (without giving away too much info) the Family Farm made 2ish Million dollars but we only farm 211ac and milk 44 head of cattle. Most of the cash earned goes back into the Farm and Sugar Beet farms are even more focused on putting money into the Farm as to make Money Sugar Beet farming you need to spend big big Bucks on a picker, planter, the tractors needed to run the Equipment, and the Trucks to haul the Beets to Storage. All in all to get a Beet Set up that you can pay the Bills efficiently you need to spend a Lot of Cash, and not everyone has a Lot of that lying around to buy a 100k tractor, 200k harvester, 30k for a high dump, and 80k for a truck setup (not exact prices and Trucks can be rented) so they need to go to a Bank for the Equipment

Know what costs more than food prices going up? When all the farmers locally lose their business and cant produce anymore and then the importers jack the prices up or supply is lost

Really wish you had discussed food independence more. That's one of the main factors motivating these subsidies. Its perfectly reasonable, at least to me, that nations are heavily invested (figuratively and literally) in ensuring that their people have the food they need if there are global shocks in the market. Its basically a massive insurance program: everyone pays a bit to ensure that the food supply doesn't fall to crap in the face of a multinational war or famine.

Everyone wants subsidies but without regulation. Truly a 'have your cake and eat it too' moment.

I'm seriously impressed with this video. Not only is it about a very important yet under-reported topic, it also manages to cover pretty much all angles of the issue.

I can't stop watching your vids, they are not only educational, but insanely witty and pleasing.

I'm reminded of Clarkson's farm. He had worked for an entire year and the total profit, without subsidy, was a few hundred bucks. Farmers basically break even most of the time, and the amount of work and risk is simply not comparably paid as compared to similarly-skilled fields like engineering. Forget the up front investment and risk. Food subsidies are here to stay.

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Great video. I really enjoyed it! Thanks for making it. Great topic and well explained

Congratulations to your channel! this is the best video you have ever made.... I admire the fact that you took the time to investigate and analize all those boring graphics from The Media...

Because farming sucks. I’ve done it. You work 24/7 365 days per year. It’s tough.

Plum Farmer from South Africa here in a country without subsidies. I don't think it can be understated how much power the supermarkets wield when it comes to manipulating the price of produce for the end consumer. My input costs have increased by at least 30% over the last 4 years since the pandemic, yet, the supermarkets in the UK want to pay us less than what they paid us before the pandemic. As a result we've been forced to send our fruit to the USA, who are willing to pay a fair price. A fair price is one where we aren't losing money on a sale. As a food producer we truly are at the mercy of supply and demand in the worst possible way. Over-supply in a market during a good season (good weather) means higher input costs and lower prices, while under-supply in a bad season (bad weather) means lower input costs, higher prices, but less product shipped. I personally think that subsidies are important for farming to be sustainable in the long run due to weather variability and climate change, but it needs to be done properly. A way that minimizes waste and encourages efficiencies. The EU is a case in point of overprotective markets. Spanish farmers for years have been lobbying for ridiculous export requirements, which they themselves aren't able to comply with. Their deciduous fruit industry has had no reason to innovate due to lack of competition. This is a situation where everyone loses. The cherry on top is that we supply them during periods when it's out of their season. So why even put trade barriers in place?

One big problem is the supermarkets here in Romania. They charge so much and give so little back to the producer. People have started buying from local warehouses that sell with only +5% added fee (compared to the 80% of the cheapest supermarket)!

Well done explaining multiple angles on the video topic!

Agriculture is the most protected area of an economy, but at the same time, average farmer in developed country is in danger of international competition from less developed countries, in Europe, is limited with ecological measures and constantly fucked by corporations that sell genetically modified seeds that give harvest once and dies making farmers dependent on these corporations.

To add to the video, there are also massive security implications for a country to be able to fulfill its agricultural needs domestically in the case of conflict or a regression in global trade.

Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!

You forgot to say that EU offers subsidies in exchange for, arguably, the healthiest agro products in the world. This is exactly why we had these huge protests all over the continent, the EU Comision had plans to enforce stricter laws to protect the environment against carbon emissions, and overfarming. The latter was a very controversial proposal which would force the farmers to regenerate plots that had low nutrients, thus reducing their harvest. Sadly the green deal was scraped due to these prostest in an electoral year.

You should give me $0.76 off carrots… (Thunder noise) NOW!

If there ever was a group to pay above average, the group that literally puts food on my table is a good one.

Amazing video, keep up the good work man!

I hate this trend of changing video thumbnails and titles. It seems so deceptive.

What about my Cabbages?

Milk in Canada was slow to rise in inflation, that small increase was small compared to every other food type. That’s thanks to the quota system.

Great video, love your animation sytle! Needless to say, I'm subscribed.

My dad manages a hospitality business that lets say is designed to cater towards richer individuals. We live in a rural ish area but there are large (some of the largest in the US) cities not that far away. Who do you think gets my dads services, rich city dwellers or farmers? Farmers. I've never met a poor farmer in the US, and I've met at least thousands as I work for my dad, yet "poor farmers" are all I hear about.

Im a dairy farmer and I agree with some of farmers because I don’t about everything else but the price per 100 weight has not changed since the 80s when you could buy a Big Mac for a $1.

Some context over what was complained in France by farmers: 1) Nonsense regulations, which is that France pushes more regulations and a lot more bureaucracy than what the EU requires. It doesn't help the situation since the corporates can just import cheaper goods from Ukraine (like chicken, seen on all national news) while our farmers are forced to a higher standard. In times of inflation such as now, it makes them unable to sell their goods. 2) Higher prices in supermarkets != them selling for higher $$. They can't meet even a decent salary unless you are part of the top 1% 3) It was seen as a Gilets Jaunes 2.0 and the government definitively doesn't want that to happen again, thus why they quickly tried to calm things down. Don't forget that your small farmer isn't making bank from most regulations.

As an Argentinian I can say most of our industries use the same way of protest and have become "indispensable" to any goverment because they hold too many jobs (and no politician wants to be seen as someone leaving people unemployed) Out mega protectionist policies and a pathological need to replace imports with home made goods (99% of the time of inferior quality) has created mostly lazy, inefficent and uncompetitive industries with very high costs and little incentive to improve becuase they have a captive market and any benefit the goverment can give them. Once you reach that point good luck untangling that mess. Those who suffer are consumers who pay more for worse products 😢

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Because it is socially unacceptable to protest against common people.

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The price isn't caused by the farmers asking for a few more cents, it is caused by the supermarkets reselling the products for two, three times the price

Dude, you’re the best. Don’t stop. Don’t ever change.

Same Situation in My Country Bangladesh 🇧🇩 But Farmers Are Not Protesting Because We Are So Scared of Our Dictator 🌚

love the content!

Damn you on a streak man, keep up the amazing videos

And then walmart goes and hikes up their home-brand prices by 40%, just cuz. And their several billion profits just go up.

Theres a scale of jobs, on one end is corporate news letter writer for a letter that no one reads and purely exists to tick a box, and on the other is farming.

in January i almost got trapped in france because of a farmers protest, thanks for letting us know more about the topic.

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Lmao, I was about to share the video to my Facebook but the facebook still use the old title "I Want $0.76 off Carrots- NOW!!"

It's so refreshing to watch a well researched video, that doesn't just explain how one thing is good or bad on the surface, but actually assess the implications.

This is very enlightening!

Thank you for the explanation!

Advantages of no restrictions: 1) Cheaper food 2) More globalization 3) Development of larger and more efficient farms Disadvantages of no restrictions: 1) Loss of farming jobs 2) Lack of food independence 3) Can cause hyper specialization in countries leading to too much dependence on a certain crop.

I like the cute art style of the farmer and stuff like the graphs a lot. It's hilarious, enduring, and adorable that it be great to see it in more vids. It's just so funny and cute seeing the farmer go angry and the scream sound effect you use

It's just funny to me when he says COMBINED. Love your videos ❤

Awesome video. I learned a lot! Seems like trade agreements are the best way to make sure everyone wins.

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Here in 🇳🇿 New Zealand, we are a major producer of beef, milk and dairy products but the price of food here is also very expensive. Same in 🇦🇺 Australia, where whilst the price of food is Australia is slightly cheaper than here in NZ, it's still rather expensive. However, when I was on holiday in 🇹🇼 Taiwan, despite Taiwan not having much of a farming or agricultural industry of their own, the price of food there was remarkably cheap, which was surprising considering that when you look at the packaging on where beef and milk in Taiwan comes from, much of it comes from here in NZ and Australia. Doesn't seem fair that whilst I was in 🇹🇼 Taiwan and the 🇵🇭 Philippines I found that food in those countries were cheaper, despite these countries not having much of a farming industry and these countries importing most of their food from NZ and Australia, New Zealand and Australian beef and milk sold in those Asian countries are cheaper than the same NZ and Australian beef & dairy here in New Zealand and Australia.

Great video!

0:18 That picture is not from Finland, and finnish farmers havent revolted for many years, and here nothing haven't burned. Cost of tractor fuel has been long time so expensive, that farmers dont travel hundreds of kilometers to capital. Yes, there was a small, local, peaceful and outside of capital-demonstration 2019, but l wouldn't call that a revolt. And it was about reforming one highway road by denying farm machines moving in that highway, and at the same time road planners didn't consider a new alternative route for farmers to travel, and that's why farmers kept a one day peaceful demonstration (tractor march) to local town. Instead of making demonstrations or revolting, farmers just discontinue their farms, because they are financially pushed to the limits. And many of they are old people - over fifth is age of 65+. For example in 2021 about 400 dairy farms ended working, and in 2022 there were only 2400 left totally in Finland - milk production haven't lowered too much, because size of dairy farms' cow count have increased - now it is averagely 50. When we stopped our dairy production in 2010, we had about 16 cows - and that was considered a pretty big dairy farm at that time. You can only imagine what kind of reformation finnish agriculture and dairy production have gone after we joined to EU. Dairy production has become either "sidehobby" which limits the farmer's movement, or go all in with depts and cow counts, creating ever bigger farms (last time l heard there were a farm with 200 cows with 4 robot milking machines. Probably held by only one family union with their children, or two farmer families).

I love how he exploded at the end

Well, at least in Argentina farmers protest for the opposite: freer markets. Our industry is so competitive that the government mostly taxes the exports of agricultural products. And this is a really great cause of political instability, so please consider: whenever europe closes itself it comes at the cost of poorer and inestable countries remaining the same.

Very well done video.

I really enjoyed this video.

I feel like you are conflating subsidises to maintain a ‘monopoly’ (can’t think of a better word) with subsidies required to maintain competition between local production and international exports. Since international exports provide cheaper imports then local farmers, farming will no longer be viable/ economically stable. Your Haiti and Mexico example kinda show this. Thanks to cheap American rice and corn, independent farmers failed to keep up reducing the amount of farmers and farming jobs. Wouldn’t this be a threat to food security if your country becomes more dependent on foreign imports? This is especially important in Europe during covid and the war in Ukraine that effected food prices and global shipping. I am not denying the American case of sugar and Chinese case of cotton but I assume the average citizen of countries with protectionist policies subsidised farmers in order to ensure food security. Furthermore countries in Europe and Japan don’t have the same luxury of land and soil quality compared to other nations. Their farmers are already at a disadvantage with countries that have cheap labour and plenty of arable land.

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Great video. Showing us that we need a healthy agricultural sector. We need to help the farmers and they need to adapt more organic farming in return. There was never a free market to begin with. Tariffs and subsidies. And the big supermarkets are those that cut the profits for farmers the most. They wanna buy cheap and sell high. And they have huge power over the price of raw goods. Aldi for example.

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Poland. How the hell you didn't mention it in the begging, it's probably one of the biggest one's right now.

Hoser, you have the best geopolitical/economics channel on KZfaq. I get so excited when a new video is published, keep it up!

Almost like farmers are a backbone of civilization or something.

Why isn't this video about retailers that sell the farmers produce and take sometimes 90% or more of the money? Yeah consumers pay a lot but farmers make very little. The retail store keeps most of the money, so they're god damn right to protest.

At least when talking about the EU, you missed half of the picture. Because the funds come with some unrealistic requirements that just makes european farmers less competitive in comparison with those of outside the EU, and this is why they're complaining, at least in my country they essentially protest against unnecessary bureaucracy and unfair regulations.

love the fact that this video is to the instrumentals from Saint Pablo

Dude thank you, you never disappoint me with these animations. That panda harvesting the cotton had me rolling

i was about to watch old hoser videos

The fact that there is an ad timer makes me feel better, and I’ll sit through the ad for you buddy

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Some added context for farming in India - While from the outside India may seem like an agricultural powerhouse, and it is, a lot of it has to do with sheer numbers than efficiency or quality. An average farmer is severely impoverished in India and barely able to sustain himself. They usually spend their entire lives farming and living off subsidies and loans until eventually like clockwork a new government change will “forgive” all outstanding loans. This poverty has to do with the size of land owned by each farmer being tiny compared to other agricultural countries. On top of each farmer not really producing a lot of crop we also have lacking logistics, if you compare us with china for example, crop wastage is rampant and prevalent. This all leads to each farmer making a pittance and this problem has never really gone away. Some states are better off in terms of logistics and farm sizes, but the most populous ones typically struggle with these factors.

because the government would shut down the consumer protests and they dont have as much free time

19:39 adding insult to injury with the Haiti rice situation is that it was recently discovered that the imported American rice has dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium. Levels high enough to cause cancer. Which explains the recent increase in cancer in the country. Local rice can still be found on the market, but now most people have grown accustomed to the flavor of the American rice and prefer it.

I'd suggest you take a research on Thailand (The country produce that rice bag on Japan rice lol). Our food cost in the city is about 25-30% of minimum income, forcing low wage people to cook themself in small apartment. The agriculture industry is already monopolized. Small size farmer have to buy seed, fertilizer and pesticide from a few company and they can even lobby many restrictions and law.

I hope we eventually get rid of the sugar tariffs, that way we can start seeing sugar in things instead of high fructose corn syrup

Considering that small farmers are asking for the ability to work a job and live a LIFE, I say for such an essential group in society, they ask for very little.

I can’t get enough of Indonesia’s Komodo dragon. Also, 2:24, American buffalo’s face buried in sugar like it’s the co-co… love it. XD

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