@beth8775
I'm glad I planted some fruit trees in our backyard a few years ago.
@jamram9924
As a child of Mexican immigrants, we grew fruits and vegetables in a garden to supplement our huge family food pantry. I have fruit trees in my back yard just because of the practice my parents used.
@KA9DSL
John Deere isn't letting farmers repair their own farm equipment, that's one of the problems. Farmers losing money.
@Fuqinidiots-eg7pr
A big part of the problem is that everything in the US gets reduced to a line item on a ledger. Just look at the language used on this subject. Corn grown for fuel and alfala grown for feed is referred to as "commodities" while fruits and vegetables grown for food are called "specialty crops". Not a good place to start in my opinion.
@hotshot4697
As a Black truck driver / Rancher, I see it all day traveling throughout the country. Nothing but soybean and corn farms. That also is explains why John Deere tractors are half a million and one million dollars now because the only Farmers that can afford to buy those trackers are the ones that's exporting soybean and corn to China.
@agya2042
Stop subsidies for corporation and help our small farmers!🇺🇸
@xiphoid2011
I'm an immigrant from china. When I heard that the US government pays farmers NOT to grow crops, it just blew my mind. That's just ridiculous when prices of food is going up.
@davidw1576
Thanks CNBC for a great topic and it deserved more public attention
@DawnRK3204
Thank you to all those who grow our food.
@banksiasong
Stunned at how you managed NOT to mention the role of Monsanto. Bravo to the single farmer who sheepishly mentioned “climate”.
@Laney_75
Ive seen many small farms in Pennsylvania unable to make it in the current economic conditions, end up bought by the Amish. At least its staying agricultural & as green space within that scenario. Still more needs to be done to support our small farmers & food diversity.
@WhizzingFish12
Every person with a little lawn and some sunshine should have a garden. Its good exercise, peaceful and rewarding, better for the environment, and much better tasting.
@lawyer1961
In Brazil, there are no subsidized crops, but farmers have a special low interest credit. Food is a strategic matter. Every country needs to produce a minimum that will be necessary to be safe.
@Rebecca-fq5zd
I wish I could get some folks to walk the creeks with me where I live. I've been doing it for many, many years and have watched what farming does to the wildlife, waterways and the land.
@milattx
If you have a yard, plant a fruit or nut tree. Even if you sell the house later, it will still benefit the environment. In many instances, it costs less than $50 to buy a tree and produces a lot when they are mature.
@albusha5150
The biggest problem with US foods is that they are extremely heavily commercialized! You drive for hundreds or even thousands of miles and you don't even see a single fruit tree along the road. Few years back I was in Pennsylvania and saw these beautiful houses with barns and not even a single fruit tree around. I come from a little country called Albania and as you drive there you can just get out of the car walk uphill or downhill and you will find a fig tree or plum tree etc full of fruits that belong to no one and you can eat as many as you like. Literally every Albanian family who owns a house with land have fruit trees in their land and of course they grow veggies too.
@Authentic-Israelite
EVERY neighborhood should have land to have community gardens so we can feed ourselves with easier to grow crops like tomatoes and lettuce. The farmers can grow some of the bigger needs like fruit, corn, etc. We can also have community chickens to get eggs etc.
@PJWestfield
We, as Americans, have been spoiled in the last 30+ years on what is available in our supermarkets. In the 80s, you only saw what was "in season". In the 90s, we started seeing what was "out of season" and now, we get watermelon and other "fresh" fruits and vegetables year 'round. People actually complain when they can't find something that wouldn't normally be "in season".
@eklectiktoni
Most of those farms belong to the same handful of major companies. Local, small-scale farmers are almost completely pushed out of the industry now.
@seaskyguy