They are at war not just with facts and "unapproved ideas" but against America.

Shitty evil.

Jack Daniel's to reverse course and give him a piece of the action or close shop.

via tariffs and forced them to look for other sources of income.

Once again, this is on him.

Thank you.

And anyone who lives in the corn belt understands the ecological impact ethanol has on our environment. It’s a monoculture, uses tons of water, lots of herbicides, destroys CRP ground.

This is not good.

this article is about using leftovers rather than the raw material.

How do you not save/budget for the day that you might actually pay for supplies.

Of course, I am reminded of the line from Hamilton

Your debts are paid 'cause you don't pay for labour
We plants seeds in the south we create
Yeah keep ranting, we know who's really doing the planting


What hasn't been subsidized by the distillery (for tax breaks) has been subsidized by government handouts for years.

FAFO MAGAt farmers.

Many of them partner with farmers, who haul it away, which is a service, and certainly stretches the definition of "free." Like the man said, he had to drive his ass up there, load his truck, and drive back to his farm - all of which involves labor and expense. Jack Daniels, for its part, gets the leftovers of its distilling process removed from its premises. Otherwise it would just pile up and up and they'd have to pay for its removal. So, it's more or less a barter of a good (slop/feed) for a service (removal). Any mid-sized brewery does the same with local farmers.

What happened here is simply that Jack Daniels received a better offer: they get the removal and probably direct payment for the good. A few points, though:

1) The local cattle farmers could not form a collective to counter Three Rivers price.
2) The local cattle farmers assumed that the deal would always be the same, and did not anticipate the threat of the arrangement being superseded by a payment scheme. That's just bad business. They are incompetent businesspeople. I suspect if they had a strong agricultural extension through their landgrant universities, somebody would have trained them to develop a SWOT analysis that included their input costs, but sadly their state universities seem to be more interested in filling football stadiums and eliminating diversity programs. Oh well.
3) The local cattle farmers live so close to their margins that they can't sustain a modest increase in input costs. That's bad business as well. It may also be an effect of tariffs, as beef sales to tariff countries are decreasing precipitously. Hey, they voted for it!
4) Jack Daniels may also be seeking revenue as a result of tariffs. Notably, their markets for US-produced whiskey have collapsed in Canada, previously a giant buyer, and in other areas as well. The tariffs may be forcing Jack Daniels to seek this new source of revenue to fill in the holes left by those collapsing markets.

All of which is to say, nice job, Trumpy! And enjoy, Tennessee!

It was announced in March 2022.

1. That's the Jack Daniels' PR version. Here's what another site said: "2022 is when Jack Daniel’s first started hinting that the Cow Feeder Program would be discontinued" (Link, emphasis added). Was it a done deal until recently? Not sure. The sudden proliferation of these news stories from September 29 to October 2 suggests that it has hit some of these people as a surprise development, despite the Jack Daniels statement.

2. I said "may," so the last two points were actually qualified.

3. If it was a done deal in 2022, then these farmers are even dumber and more incompetent than the story lets on!

which remain, in my view, correct. In 2022, JD announced the partnership with 3 Rivers, but anticipated the continuation of the Cow Feeder Program. This year, and in the last week, they specified that they could not service both the contract with 3 Rivers and the Cow Feeder Program due to decreased production, at least one factor for which is likely reduction in markets due to tariffs (no doubt, general pain in the sector as a result of decreased drinking is also important).

The post above provides the full information: https://democraticunderground.com/100220691697#post17