him about our food supply. and we did on a brand-new episode of tucker carlson today. here s part of it. you go back to the time when i first started this business and i started going out when i was 18 years old and i was buying, i was just going out there buying for my markets and it was hundreds of farmers in a homestead, south florida tropical area. there were hundreds and hundreds of farmers and now there s hardly any left. the only people left are people like myself that are vertically integrated because there s honestly no money in the farming. i don t want to be like the farmer crying poor mouth because we don t take government subsidies. we don t love a good enough to have subsidies for vegetable farmers in florida, but i can tell you in the last 12 years that i ve confirmed. i ve only made money farming two years of 12 years. the farm almost always loses every year. at this scale that we ve got to
and we did it a brand new episode, tucker carlson said here s part of it. if you go back to the time when i first started in thisis business and i started going out to moqui when i was ohen 18 years old and i was buying, i was just going out there buying you for my markets and there was hundreds of farmers in immokalee, a markley homestead, boca raton, all the south florida subtropical area. there was f hundredslo and hunds of farmers theree and nowt. there s hardly any left. the only people that are left are people like myself that aree vertically integrated because there s honestly no money in the farming. and i don t want to e be like the farmer crying poor mouth because we don t take government subsidiesing. t no, we don t lobby good enough e to have subsidies for vegetable farmers in florida. but i can tell you that inn the last in the last twelve years that i ve farmed, i ve only made money farming two to four years in twelve years with the farm almost always loses every year. a
those two candidates are not talking about these issues. this left verses right thing is killing us. it is a trap. there is no way out of it. new and better where the solutions are out in if world and the federal government amplifies those. that s called leadership. how come republicans are not in that trap. you know for good or bad, they all seem to get in line behind president trump. well, they re going to be in that trap if we have a nominee that can capture people s imagination and can reframe some of the discussions. those things i just talked to you about around regenerative culture have the support of conservative republicans who think climate change is not manmade. they want to get into the soils because they are making a lot of money farming in a regenerative
afterwards? ana: maybe, it s very intense. anthony: how long have you had this farm? how long have you been doing this? ana: jorge started the farm around 10 years now but the farm was originally part of the area that the navy took. so it s part of the rescues that happened throughout the 80 s 90 s. anthony: farming is difficult work so why? ana: my mom would ask the same question. she was like what are you doing? are you quitting job that in puerto rico it s hard to find a good job but i think that farming is the most practical thing that we can do in the midst of a crisis. xavier: that is something that is going to create work that is going to help the economy. anthony: it s a blunt question but can you make money farming? ana: in puerto rico it s
anthony: how long have you h m?is far this?ong have you been doing ana: jorge started the farm around 10 years now but the farm was originally part of the area that the navy took. so it s part of the rescues that happened throughout the 80 s 90 s. anthony: farming is difficult work so why? ana: my mom would ask the same question. she was like what are you doing? are you quitting job that in puerto rico it s hard to find a good job but i think that farming is the most practical thing that we can do in the midst of a crisis. xavier: that is something that is going to create work that is going to help the economy. anthony: it s a blunt question but can you make money farming? ana: in puerto rico it s still a challenge because obviously we still get food that is super subsidized from the u.s. but many people who are our neighbors are like i ll pay more like how much is it worth. people really value the work when they see we re working for it. xavier: that s part of my