Under Contract Farmers and the Fine Print

For the first time in a full-length documentary, contract farmers tell their stories and industry experts reveal how the corporate production model pits farmer against farmer. Under Contract: Farmers and the Fine Print takes viewers across the American South and to Southern India to understand what’s happening to farmers living under contract and what we can do to change our food system for the better.
The story of the contract farmer is the story of what’s changing in rural America. Power in agriculture is changing hands, but few people know what’s happening to the farmers producing our food. Under Contract tells this story through the lens of global poultry farming. Around the world and all across agriculture, contract farming is taking hold. But farmers who sign contracts often face unfair challenges and hidden risks under the terms that are offered by the giant “integrator” meatpacking corporations that control the industry. Under Contract provides a timely glimpse into the little-understood fine print of modern agriculture.

[@brendaacevedo3990]

Video is very important to share in our farmer community. Please translate to spanish

[@abcdefghi9]

Farmers need to unite under one umbrella like a Co-Op and demand to be payed in shares/cash instead of cash alone.That way they will have voteing rights in the company. They will own the company instead of the company owning them.Every farmer should own shares, and when votes are casted, it will be proportional to the shares owned.Or they can simply band together and create a new company under a CO-OP where the farmers are the owners, to compete with tyson, perdue etc.The farmers are the labour they will win.

[@richardsiegfried9423]

I agree with this after watching these deplorable testimonials from good folks being pounded by these companies who obviously don't care about the farmer. So, I propose they do it all. If they cant pay more than 5cents a pound they maybe they need to handle it all. Farmers need to unit and stand down collectively. What's Tysons gonna possibly do when 1200+ farmers don't accept any more chicks by us? I'll tell you. They'll buckle and it's time for unions to move in and take these contracts more beneficial for all parties. Americans need to get some sense and stop trying to get rich easy and stop ignorantly signing these bullvorn contracts with greedy corporations. If they started me at 21k a batch and dropped it to 12k I wouldn't have accepted anymore chicks until they straightened there act up. Sounds like Tysons needs to be run out of town and a new fresh business come up in the ranks and give back to the farmers. It's time to rise up before corporations take our lands over! The lands that belong to the people.

[@jagsingh6410]

Naxalite is the future of India. Support country Naxalite and its government. Naxalite is always with you to alleviate poverty and ensure equal human rights.

[@kendito2671]

L jj.. . El ml y upo

[@emmett1047]

Nothing is wrong with making a living until these companies want more. Good business or bad. The investment isn't worth the risk. You can earn a good living by avoiding them.

[@kevinpoole4323]

There has Gotta Be A Better Way

[@DevaJones03]

When he said the government i think about these rural whites who vote for the rich people who fraternize with Tyson execs..... when do you stop voting for those people? When do you press them to either help you or get out of office?

[@blkarachklb2434]

Every time they said government I think about peace of shit Obama .

[@coronanono1374]

I need work

[@lmd2454]

$1 million dollars 🤦🏽‍♀️ WHY??? There ARE better ways!

[@RosaLynnAkins]

What happens to these farmers is wrong! Shame on the chicken industry for what they do to farmers. We need to care more as a society for the humane way to raise our food and support all farmers!

[@lmd2454]

I’m sorry but this is why city people think country folks are dumb. Going to mortgage your entire life waaaaaay beyond your ability to pay for it, for a shady contract written to benefit the corporation and give you absolutely no leverage or say in what you do. Then you’re going to be upset when it doesn’t go your way. 🤔🙄 The farmer needs to be the producer and the retailer. Cut out the middleman altogether and take back control of your lives, your future, and the safety of our food systems! Unfortunately it’s too late for the folks in this video unless they want to go through bankruptcy and have to completely start over.

[@sommbre]

Did you not watch the documentary, or somehow entirely miss that the contracts are intentionally misleading? How can this be an individual failure when such a high percentage of actual (working) farmers are in debt... This is a systematic and intentional abuse of working people, people who believe in the same things you seem to believe in -- rugged individualism and hard work. It's an abuse by those in positions of power, not a moral or intellectual failing.

[@sommbre]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4SYeH2Poa2eppY I think your recommendation is to be like this farm, which is also struggling because the consumer costs are artificially low. That clip shows it's not the individual working farmer's fault that our food system is fragile and only profitable to corporations. We need to shift focus to fixing those systems that make it impossible to survive as an independent -- or even contract -- farmer. It's not unreasonable to think that contracts should benefit both parties, promoting efficiency and cooperation.

[@karenl7786]

Meanwhile the housing bubble that caused by wanna be suburbanites who needed 5000 ft² homes and 3 car garages burst and brought the country economically to its knees. Just stop.

[@emmett1047]

​@@sommbre Well said, well said. Nothing is wrong with making a living until these companies want more.

[@DevaJones03]

You're both right in a way. The country dude trusts to easily city people often anticipate a con from jump especially from a large company. Common sense ain't always common