Tim Dufault
Tim Dufault
bubble downhill leaving pass people population rural seeing soon start worried
They're worried that their population bubble is going to pass pretty soon and they're going to start on a downhill slide. In some of the rural areas, they're already seeing young people leaving for the cities.
everybody informal large meetings name red sequence speaks
In China, there's no such thing as an informal meeting. We had meetings where they rolled out the red carpet, literally. Everybody has name cards, there's a sequence of who speaks when, there are large banners and flowers. That's just the way they do things, very formal.
bottom cutting field fuel hurting hurts start trips yields
I can try cutting back some trips over the field for fuel prices, but it's not like I'm out there doing recreational tillage now. You only go over it when you have to. You can cut back on fertilizer but it's not like we're over fertilizing to start with. You start cutting back too much and you're hurting yields and that hurts your bottom line. There's no way around it.
basically coming cut gotta money
You know, fertilizer and energy, you've gotta have them so they're basically going to cut money right off your profit. It's coming right out of your pocket.
guys pole shoulder thousand
Yet on the other side, you have guys with their shoulder pole and two buckets of manure, just like they've done for a thousand years.