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Someone complained that $6 for a bag of frozen blueberries was "highway robbery" and farmers are "making a killing."

So let me show you what actually happened this February...

A historic freeze hit the Southeast wiping out blueberry bushes that had been producing for over a decade, irrigation lines, equipment, fields weeks from harvest. Farmers were out at 3 AM trying to save what they could.

Most people have no idea where their food comes from. It's not Publix. It's a field, a family, a season, and this year, a freeze that nearly took it all.

If local farmers and food security matter to you: buy the bag, buy all the bags. Buy all the locally grown food you can get your hands on.

Don't think twice about the price.

Farmers need support — not sympathy.

#USAgriculture #FoodSecurity #BuyLocal #FreshFromFlorida #georgiagrown taken in Clermont, Florida by @landedforimpact

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The song under this reel isn't random. Her mother sewed Dolly a coat from a box of rags one winter because there was no money for a new one, then told her the story of Joseph's coat of many colors while she stitched it. Dolly wore that coat to school proud. Other kids made fun of her for it.

She spent the rest of her life saying that money was never what made a person rich or poor. It was something else entirely, something in the way you carry yourself and the people who love you.

Farmers understand that better than almost anyone. The sacrifice most of them make goes unnoticed by the very people they feed, season after season, with little recognition and even less thanks. Still, they take real pride in that work, in feeding a nation and caring for land that outlasts them. Their worth was never up to the consumer to decide.

The world could use more people like her. Kind without keeping score. Quiet when quiet was the right call. Loving loud when it mattered most.

A farm with patched coats and homemade meals raised a woman like that.

In a world quick to judge, be more like Dolly.

#agriculture
#farmer
#dollyparton
#kindness taken in Sevier County by @landedforimpact

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Farmers gross less than 12 cents of every dollar you spend on groceries... and that's before expenses. In 2024 that number fell to 11.8 cents, down from 12.1 cents the year before, according to USDA's Food Dollar Series.

For thirty years, Florida tomato growers fought Mexican imports sold below production cost. This year, the U.S. International Trade Commission agreed. A 17% antidumping duty is now in effect.

Since 1994, American growers went from 80% of the U.S. tomato market to 30%. Mexican imports now supply roughly 70% of what you buy in stores.

This is not about politics. This is about who grows your food, and whether they can keep affording to.

Every label that says Product of USA is a vote for the farmer who bet everything on this season before he ever sold a single crop.

Buy American. Ask where your food comes from. It matters more than you think.

#farmer
#agriculture
#nofarmsnofood taken in Colerain, North Carolina by @landedforimpact

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Farmland loss and family farm succession are the same story, and the Southeast is living it right now.

America had 6.8 million farms in 1935. USDA now counts about 1.87 million, working roughly 874 million acres. The decline has been building for 90 years, through every administration and every economy. Farm families have carried that weight the whole way.

From 2008 to 2024, the country lost more than 300,000 farms and about 42 million acres of farmland. North Carolina ranks second nationally for projected farmland loss by 2040. Georgia ranks fourth. Florida could lose as much as 2.2 million acres of agricultural land in the coming decades, and American Farmland Trust projects 18.4 million acres converted nationwide by 2040.

Driving across Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, I see it every season. Fields farmed for decades now have cul de sacs and storefronts.

Farmers, start your transition plan early and talk to your family about it. Everyone else, buy American grown and support the farmland preservation programs that connect retiring farmers with the next generation.

Let's keep the comments about farms, families and who comes next. ❤️

#agriculture
#farmer
#nofarmernofoodnofuture taken in United States of America by @landedforimpact

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Family farms come in every size, and together they produce about 86% of the value of everything grown and raised on US farms. Most of them are small: nearly 8 in 10 farms sell less than $100,000 a year.

Here's what those families are up against:

🚜 71% of US farms run on a profit margin under 10%, which USDA calls high risk.

🚜 86% of family farm households earn most of their income off the farm. Many farmers work a second job to keep the first one going.

🚜 Farms gross less than 6 cents of every dollar you spend on food.

🚜The average American farmer is 58. Only 9% are under 35.

🚜 Farmland has shrunk by about 25 million acres since 2018.

🚜 Last year, farms selling $1 million or more were the only group that grew. Every smaller size class shrank.

Want to help? Buy from a local farm stand. Ask where your food was grown. Tell a farmer thank you this harvest season, when they rarely hear it.

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#farmer
#nofarmersnofoodnofuture
#america250 taken in Immokalee, Florida by @landedforimpact

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Last winter's freeze hit 6,400 acres of Florida blueberries. The state puts the loss at $78.5 million, roughly $12,000 an acre in fruit that never made it to market. Strawberry growers lost about 80% of their crop too. Altogether, Florida agriculture took an estimated $3.1 billion hit.

That figure doesn't count the bushes that take years to come back, the extra labor, or the long nights running pumps for freeze protection.

Hope gets planted long before harvest.

Florida blueberries usually reach stores in spring, ahead of most other states. Fall shelves lean heavily on imports, so flip the clamshell over and look for "Product of USA." Every pint you pick up is a vote of confidence in a grower who refused to quit.

#agriculture
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#nofarmersnofoodnofuture
#blueberries taken in Clermont, Florida by @landedforimpact

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Southeast farmers are harvesting and planting your food right now, even while some folks cheer for them to fail.

Here's what this fall's harvest looks like across Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas:

🍠 North Carolina grows most of America's sweet potatoes, including the ones headed for your Thanksgiving table.

🥜 Georgia grows nearly half the nation's peanuts. About 540 of them go into one jar of peanut butter.

🌱 One bale of Southeast cotton can make 215 pairs of jeans.

🍓 Around Plant City, Florida, growers are setting the beds for 95% of America's winter strawberries.

🛒 Out of every dollar spent on food, farmers gross less than 6 cents.

Every one of these acres was paid for months before harvest. Seed, fuel, fertilizer and labor came first. The check comes last, if it comes at all.

You can disagree with a farmer and still want that family to make it. Those two things have always fit together.

Buy local. Buy US grown. Root for the folks who feed you.

Which Southeast crop shows up on your table most? Tell me below 👇

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#farmer
#nofarmersnofoodnofuture
#freshfromflorida taken in Plant City, Florida by @landedforimpact

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Southeast cotton farmers are deep in harvest right now, from South Georgia to the Carolinas. This is the season that decides whether the whole year paid off.

Georgia is the second largest cotton state in the nation. In 2025, Georgia growers planted more peanuts than cotton for the first time in decades. When the numbers stop working, farmers switch crops, and some leave farming for good. Every acre that goes out of cotton takes a gin, a crew and a small town paycheck with it.

The cotton in your jeans, sheets and towels can be grown right here by American farm families. Ask brands where their cotton comes from. Choose the ones that say USA.

Tell your senators the farm bill can't wait another season.

Who in your feed should see this? Share it with them.

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#southeastcotton
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#agriculture
#usacotton taken in Bainbridge, Georgia by @landedforimpact

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Diesel is averaging over $6 a gallon nationally right now, the highest level on record. Every one of those dollars moves through the chain that gets food to your table, tractors, irrigation, fertilizer, and freight.

Farmers see about 18 cents of every dollar spent at the grocery store, but after covering fuel, fertilizer, and other production costs, USDA data shows farmers and ranchers keep less than 6 cents of that same dollar.

Imagine living on 6 cents of your paycheck.

With diesel this high, that margin gets thinner fast. Food is not partisan. Everyone still needs to eat.

Support your local farmers and buy U.S. grown!

#agriculture
#farmer
#nofarmersnofoodnofuture taken in Vidalia, Georgia by @landedforimpact

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American farmland is disappearing faster than most people realize, and the data backs it up.

The United States now has fewer than 2 million working farms, the lowest count since before the Civil War. We've lost over 141,000 farms since 2017 alone, and dairy farms specifically have dropped 34% in that same stretch.

The farms that remain are getting bigger and fewer. Average farm size grew 5% to 463 acres per operation as small and mid sized farms consolidated or closed.

Farm bankruptcies have now risen for three straight years. The US posted its largest agricultural trade deficit in fiscal year 2024, nearly $32 billion dollars, and USDA projected the gap would grow even wider the following year.

North Carolina and Georgia both rank in the nation's top five states for farmland most at risk of disappearing for good. Florida is not far behind.

This is not a partisan issue. Farm income has been under pressure since 2022, long before this became a headline.

Protecting American farmland is protecting American food security.

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#agriculture
#nofarmersnofoodnofuture taken in Tifton, Georgia by @landedforimpact

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North Carolina agriculture is bigger, more varied, and more family run than most people realize, so let's put some real numbers to the story. Set to Eric Church's "Carolina," because home is what this is all about.

North Carolina farms sold $14.8 billion of crops and livestock in 2024, and about three quarters of it came from animals and poultry. Chicken raised for meat led at $6.0 billion, hogs brought in $2.5 billion, and eggs added $854 million. Soybeans, turkeys, tobacco, and corn each landed between $450 million and $658 million. Sweetpotatoes came in at $255 million and peanuts at $145 million.

Then look at who is doing the work. The average farm here is 192 acres, but a typical farm does not really exist. Half of them are under 50 acres, and the 4.3% over 1,000 acres cover about half of the farmland. Every size of farm has a place in this story.

The people behind those numbers are worth a moment too. The average North Carolina farmer is 58, and 57% list a job other than farming as their main occupation. That is a lot of early mornings and late nights stacked on a day job.

Right now it is apple season in the mountains. Henderson County grows about 85% of the state's apples. The 80th annual NC Apple Festival kicked off harvest in Hendersonville over Labor Day weekend. Hurricane Helene cost the state roughly 20% to 30% of its apple crop in 2024, and some orchards are still rebuilding.

Then there is the land. North Carolina has 8.1 million acres of farmland, and it is shrinking. Farm numbers are down 8% since 2017 and 21% since 2002, and the state agriculture department points to a projection of more than a million acres of farm and forestland lost by 2040. Farmland is hard to get back after it is built on.

You can help in a simple way. Buy from a North Carolina farmer this week, and ask who grew what is in your basket. Family owned here means a family holds the majority of the business, and those families notice when you show up.

Which number surprised you most? Tag a friend who thinks NC isn't farm country.

#ag#agriculture
#farmer
#ncgrown
#ncsweetpotatoes taken in Harrellsville, North Carolina by @landedforimpact

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Ask a farmer about the ground they work, and you'll hear stories before you hear acres. A grandfather who cleared it by hand. A dry year that nearly cost everything. A harvest season that made every hard day worth it.

Most farmers don't talk about stewardship much. They just live it. You can see it in healthy soil, cover crops, careful water use, and decisions made with their kids and grandkids in mind.

The farmers I admire most share a quiet conviction. The land is a trust, and every season is a chance to honor it.

Tag a farmer who treats their ground that way.

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#farmer
#nofarmersnofoodnofuture
#america250 taken in Baxley, Georgia by @landedforimpact

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