Meet John Boyd Jr., a 4th-generation black farmer who doesn’t like how President Joe Biden keeps sending money to Ukraine while American farmers remain struggling in the face of Bidenomics.
“Every time I look at the news, there’s another commitment to help foreign countries. We probably helped Ukraine, probably $100 billion or so, and we can’t get debt relief for American citizens in this country,” he told Fox News in an interview.
“We’re providing Israel and other parts of the world billions of dollars in relief and, in one instance, we even provided Ukraine farmers with financial relief. But everyone frowns when I say that they should live up to their commitment for debt relief for America’s farmers and to stop farm foreclosures,” he added.
“Quite frankly, we’re facing extinction today,” Boyd, the president of the National Black Farmers Association, continued, referencing all the farms that are being foreclosed these days.
It doesn’t help that Biden doesn’t seem to care.
Case in point: Biden reportedly promised to invite Boyd to the White House to talk about the issues affecting farmers, yet that invitation has yet to be sent out.
So what exactly is the problem? Part of it is that the “country has made it so difficult” for farmers.
“For instance, we have beef cattle prices in this country where we’re producing the lowest amount of beef for most countries, 82 million cows and calves,” Boyd explained.
“We’re down close to 3 percent, and we’re producing 1 billion pounds less of America’s beef than we did last year this time. And it’s because we’re not investing in America’s farmers and, in this case, beef cattle farmers,” he added.
And he knows his stuff, given that he himself has been producing beef for 41 years.
“I just came from the livestock market and there are empty stalls,” he said. “And this is the time that America’s farmers sell beef to pay off all debts. You know, insurance and all of these things that we use that secondary income to pay our bills to survive until we start planting season.”
“And when I went to the market, I noticed a lot of empty stalls when, historically, those stalls had been filled up with beef cattle and farmers selling their livestock. And it’s because we’re not investing in America’s farmers, and they can’t hold on so they’re depleting their herds. And that means they’re not having more cows to go into next year,” he added.
“These are real issues. And if we don’t face them, we are going to be begging other countries to send us food instead of supporting America’s farmers. And all this is happening under this administration, and nobody’s saying a word about it,” he continued.
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Boyd further warned that unless serious changes occur within the next five to 10 years, farmers will no longer be able to meet the public’s food needs.
“We’re going to be — and I’m speaking as the head of the National Black Farmers Association — there are not going to be any farmers left if we don’t hurry up and take action in this country to protect farmers in this country,” he said. “I mean, put some real laws in place to protect America’s farmers.”
“These are the people that produce food and feed every household in this country, and we should have them at the top of the tier rather than down at the bottom, frowning on the acts to provide relief to farmers,” he added.
It’s quite absurd, he noted, especially since the government “doesn’t frown on” providing “billions of dollars to foreign countries that aren’t going to support us when they get back on their feet.”‘
“If you don’t believe me, look at Iraq and Afghanistan. We invested billions of dollars in those regions, and they still don’t want us in those countries today,” he said. “So, why do we keep making the same mistakes?”
“Investing all of our money into foreign countries that really aren’t going to support us anywhere. Invest those dollars into our own country, in our own infrastructure and, in this case, America’s farmers. And watch it multiply where we can leave our farming operations to the next generation of farmers,” he added.
Concluding his remarks, he stressed that this shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
“You have an enormous amount of resources to help farmers in Ukraine, which aren’t U.S. citizens. I don’t care how you look at that — Republican, Democrat, independent. Man, that’s bad politics,” he said.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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