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Industrial Farming is Draining The US Economy

20 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video arguing that shifting to regenerative agriculture could redirect large amounts of farm-spending back into US rural economies. The speaker claims roughly 200 million grain acres and estimates about $400 per-acre savings from regenerative practices, yielding about $80 billion per year that could be retained in US communities rather than sent to large agrochemical firms. The speaker links this redirected spending to local economic revitalization (higher tax bases, improved schools, parks, dealerships, etc.).

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200 million grain acres

About $400 per acre

Approximately $80 billion a year

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There's 200 million grain acres in this country. You're looking at regenerative ag up to about a $400 an acre savings. Multiply $400 times 200 million. It's 80 billion a year that we send to Monsanto, just German now and Syngenda, which is Chinese. But why are we sending $80 billion of American farmers money overseas? So when we start injecting 50 to 80 billion back in the middle America, well that's going to be the re industrialization of middle America. It's going to change our economy. It's going to be amazing. Farmers are going to be able to go down to that local Chevy dealership and get a new car. You know, tax base is going to go up. School districts are going to get better, water districts are going to get better after school, programs are going to be implemented, parks, all that stuff is going to get better. So it's this very positive cascade. And there's money in the pool, right? But it's money that they made. They feel good about themselves.