Well, shit. There it is. The USDA’s big-ticket farm boy, Dahlman, looked at the mess his own damn policies helped make and told the little guy to just ‘adapt and control what they can.’ What a goddamn load of horseshit. That’s what they always say when they’ve got the leverage and you’ve got the debt. ‘Adapt,’ he says. Like the answer to a rigged market is for you to personally eat the volatility until your banker calls your loan. Fuck that noise. He’s sitting on a pile of scale and government-backed capital, and he’s telling the family farmer to just bend over and handle it. You know what ‘adapt’ means in that dictionary? It means shut up, take the hit, and be grateful they let you keep the dirt. It means the problem isn’t a market that concentrates wealth upward at the speed of light; the problem is your lack of ‘resilience.’ It’s the same old goddamn story: the rich hand you the bill and call it a life lesson. Well, I call it what it is: a betrayal. A man with his clout could be in there talking about price floors, market oversight, or how to break up the chokehold the packers and grain traders have on every bushel. But no. He tells you to adapt. He tells you this is just the weather. It ain’t the weather, pal. It’s a goddamn policy choice, and you’re on the wrong side of it. So here’s your adaptation: get loud, get organized, and stop taking advice from the man who’s already got his hand in the till.
Source story: Montana grain farmers face new costs as Canada’s retaliatory tariffs bite.