Summary
U.S. barley farmers face mounting financial pressure as Trump’s tariffs spark fears of losing key export markets.
Canada, the top importer of U.S. malt barley, has already imposed retaliatory tariffs, and Mexico may follow. Farmers warn that rising fertilizer and chemical costs, combined with declining U.S. beer consumption, threaten their survival.
Breweries may absorb or pass higher costs to consumers, potentially raising beer prices.
Experts say tariffs could devastate barley exports, with industry leaders calling them a major blow to struggling American farmers.
Prohibition 2.0
Experts say tariffs could devastate barley exports, with industry leaders calling them a major blow to struggling American farmers.
US barley production at a county level:
And the Trump-Harris results for the 2024 Presidential election at a county level:
I mean, this one is kind of a self-inflicted wound.
Every time I start to think that maybe there’s hope, that the working class might unify against this type of shit, I see another post taking delight in the suffering of others because they happened to vote for the red party that’s fucking them, instead of the blue one that’s allowing them to be fucked.
Keep turning the cheek and getting slapped. The rest of us are tired of it.
I see another post taking delight
At no point did I say anywhere that this was a delight.
I will say it’s somewhat satisfying in an “I told you so” kind of way. It’s getting really frustrating voting for a government that will serve the people overall, but get rejected by the very people who would benefit most.
I will continue to vote for sanity and for a government that serves its people but is it really too much to ask for the people to do the same?
You’re asking people to show kindness to their abusers. The people who voted for this have caused massive suffering. People have tried being the more mature ones, look where it got us. Those people are not interested in joining forces. The openly call us the enemy. Asking people to give them sympathy at this point is insulting.
Goddamnit, ninja’d!
It looks like your barley production map is better. Apparently mine only has data for some states.
Looks like it still shows the same pattern, though.
I suppose they need more tariffs. There is nothing in the USA that can’t be fixed with some tariffs and a paragraph from the Bible. Land of Glory.
Beer sales are down? What’s used in sparkling water booze – corn? Time to switch to that?
All of that shit, in the US, is made with malt
Malt what?
Malt liquor? Alcohol made with malted barley…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_liquor
In other countries, things like “Smirnoff Ice” actually contain vodka. In the US, they can’t do that for whatever reason, so it’s all malt liquor plus flavoring. Which is why they all kind of taste the same in a subtle way.
I guess most of them probably contain high fructose corn syrup, so maybe not completely wrong about the corn.
Edit: Actually, just peeked at that wiki page and I guess corn is often use in addition to malted barley. TIL.
Damn, not as many people pouring literal poison down their throats now that weed’s legal for most people, huh? Something something world’s smallest violin. Fuck you, alcohol industry.
They said less beer, not less alcohol.
As someone who has enjoyed cannabis daily for likely longer than you’ve been alive, there is nothing more annoying than the “all drugs are bad except weed, which is a gift from God” people.
Dude I don’t use cannabis or alcohol. I have no personal stake in this game. I care about this solely from a public health perspective and acknowledge that 1) cannabis is substantially less unhealthy than alcohol and 2) cannabis legalization correlates with a decrease in alcohol sales. I don’t care how long you’ve been alive; being alive longer isn’t an argument, so quit being condescending and piss off.
Oh good, it was meant to be condescending. Glad it came across. I don’t recall ever saying you did use either.
Even here you couldn’t help yourself and had to post articles about this shit. Buddy, I KNOW.
They said less beer, not less alcohol
So I gave you an article showing that cannabis legalization also corresponds with a decrease in alcohol in general, not just beer.
Buddy, I KNOW.
You’re strawmanning what I’m saying as “all drugs are bad except weed, which is a gift from God”, so I gave you something more concrete (health information) that you can’t strawman to fuck and back. That’s why I linked to both articles. Hope this accommodation to your illiteracy helps. :)
The culture around beer shifted from cheap low alcohol content drinks with little variation, to more expensive high alcohol content drinks with a ton of variation. Then, as with anything that hits a “trend”, the market tries to capitalize on it beyond what demand actually cares to express, and prices go so far through the roof that nobody gives a shit anymore.
Nobody that was already drinking cares about the health issues (or at least they didn’t just suddenly change out of the blue). They just got a taste for something that gradually got priced out. If you got your taste for beers on fancy 10%ABV stouts that now cost $7 a can/bottle, you aren’t going to just buy whatever is now in your price range. You just stop buying beer, and get other shit.
I wonder what color they use on the election results map for states that grow barley.
This is some leopardsatemyface content.
Presidential: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ElectoralCollege2024.svg/640px-ElectoralCollege2024.svg.png
USA grains map: https://grains.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/USCGbarleymap-300x175.jpg
