Sarah Taber
@SarahTaber_bww · Fayetteville, NC · joined 03 Nov 2014
Small farmer, ex-farm worker & crop scientist. Here to talk food, agriculture, and money.
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Any followers work at @Meta or know someone who does?
I need to update payment information from my campaign bank acct, to my business acct. Bc I'm pretty sure a creator getting paid through a political campaign bank account is SUPER illegal.
But Meta's back end won't let me 💀
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reading moby dick and the infinite weight of hubris pins my shipmates to the ocean floor
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This is why it's so important that US agriculture drop the "positive vibes only!" strategy and actually learn from our own mistakes.
So we can stop repeating them already.
Anyway, here's the next Egyptian cotton: Argentine & Brazilian soybeans.
https://t.co/DPOqBxzoQR
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This is why "Egyptian cotton" is a thing now!
Egypt grew some cotton before all that, but not a "main export industry & household name" amount.
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By the time the US Civil War was over, so was the US cotton industry.
Egypt had ramped up to growing so much cotton, nobody really needed any from the US South anymore.
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What actually happened? Egyptian cotton.
With lots of fertile farmland and desperate for something to sell for cash on international markets,
Egypt's leadership dumped resources into building up cotton farming in Egypt.
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Without Southern cotton, the British textile industry would be brought to its knees.
And that would force the British Empire- with the world's most powerful navy- to help the US South in its fight for "freedom."
At least, that's what cotton planters THOUGHT would happen.
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US farmers are saying we "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CAN'T get better.
Other countries are now fillingl China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
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The thing is, this isn't even the first time US ag has wrecked itself with foolish trade wars.
In the runup to the Civil War, US cotton plantations decided to stop exporting cotton. Why?
Because the British Empire's textile mills ran on cotton from US plantations.
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Ever heard someone say "We SHOULD pay farm workers more! But then oranges will cost $3 each?"
We're debunking that today.
https://t.co/6vOTmykNkZ https://t.co/zgfPwNJ51n
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