Re: I need to be informed

Posted by Light in the tunnel on February 18, 2002 at 09:25:29 from (205.188.197.58):

In Reply to: I need to be informed posted by Kurt on February 17, 2002 at 07:19:44:

There are many reasons I have seen for problems farming these days. One big one is that "everyone wants a piece of the pie" and there are too few pies. While not being to totally sure about this as there are so many factors working here,it seems that "Marketing" seem to be a weak point. If every farmer marketed his own crops, it would be a big mess at first but could gain organization. The grain companys, livestock companys, packers etc are the marketers and get piece of pie. There are these large corp farms springing up all over , who are combining producing and marketing in one operation getting 2 slices of pie, then there are the comodities brokers who set prices and get there pie although sometimes they get mud pie. Value added farming could be a ticket for a farmer to make some real money, but it is an awful lot of work for one or two people. There is a large movement in the bigger cities right now with "Organicly grown" food. It costs more, but those people will pay for it if there is no chemicals that will make their kids grow 8 feet tall or cause cancer at 3 years old. A 1000 acre family farm in organics may be out of the question , but a 30-60 acre farm will work if the family is willing to work it! Less produced, but higher return on the dollar invested if quality is produced. Imports from chile are not totally a bad thing IF they buy our summer produce. It is nice to have grapes, vegtables and things like that in winter here, but we need to be able to sell our goods over there when they can't grow them, and then it falls back to the "Marketing" issue. Just some "food for thought".

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