This is chronic and systemic: Farmer

I'm thinkin' that you, him, me, and all the other "big ole guys" have a whole lot better understanding of economics.  They certainly have a better grasp of what's happening to the soil under their feet (not just adding to it on a frequent memory-fade).

One thing Joe was right about... Delaware's population of CHICKENS outnumbers HUMANS...  And it's pretty certain that every one is a straight-ticket voter.

Of course, if Delaware was an actually 'agricultural' state, it wouldn't have just three farms totalling just two million chickens.  Look at 'real' agricultural states' numbers as of 2021:

Texas ~30.6 million

Georgia ~31 million

Pennsy ~37 million

Indiana ~45.5 million

Ohio ~45.8  million

 And one last one...

   Iowa-  60 million.

In ONE YEAR, most of these states have more chickens on ONE FARM, than Delaware has had in ALL of it's farms for the last 15 years.  Delaware is so far down the list, it isn't even ON the list.

What Joe doesn't understand, is that in basically every ONE of the states above, we've DESTROYED more chickens in the prevention of avian flu PER STATE, in ANY ONE MONTH, than Delaware successfully produced in the span of time from his first day as VP. 

Sad to say, that chicken isn't 'farming' as much as it is 'factory contracting' anymore.  Farmers who find themselves committing to selling chicken, become saddled up with basically unrecoverable debt purchasing equipment demanded by the monopoly contract-purchasers.  One small-time poultry operator friend of mine refuses contracts from giant firms, because the fiscal trap would leave him at such a weakness that he'd lose his entire operation to the corporate interests that'd run him into the ground, at which point, he'd be a 'tenant farmer'.

There's plenty of agribusiness economist 'reporters' who becry skyrocketing prices of staple meats as a 'reactionary aggression' towards the 'food market' by farmers... it is most assuredly not.  They'll also assert that since prices will rise asymmetrically as a result of transportation costs, the 'rural' population is doing this to exercise power against the 'urban centers', when again, it simply isn't.  The end result WILL be, that people farthest from the soil, will feel it much more than those who live closer... and anyone capable of simple Failure Mode Analysis can pick any dozen-or-more aspects of economic upset circumstance, and perform a simple 5-Why on each, to see where the REAL problem of each exists.  In the case of our current fiasco, HE has been quite efficient-  It only takes a 2-WHY to get to the root of most problems.

Aside from the basic fact of agribiz reality, this should probably get moved into the 'politics' section.