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Farmer says 'we're in a very dire situation' ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer | Fortune (fortune.com)

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The comment comes from a Mastodon instance, and the microblogging convention is to tag a user at the beginning of a post in order to make it a reply. The cross-federation presents the Mastodon post as a Lemmy comment, but preserves the user-tag at the beginning. I'm certain that @zombiewarrior@techhub.social meant to call the farmer quoted in the article a dumbass.