Posted by Bret4207 on October 03, 2013 at 09:03:48 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: Goodbye Farm Bill posted by Indiana Ken on October 03, 2013 at 07:32:17:
Right now dairies are closing their doors Ken. There are very few places with truly stable or growing dairies. The sad truth is that we can't continue to artificially support industries that operate at a loss. So if we pulled the supports for dairy, for angora goats, for crops that don't grow where people are trying to grow them, for CORN, for other areas of the agricultural industry and let market forces determine winners and losers...we'd have a stronger agricultural base in the end. Yeah, it'd hurt. A lot. But the US has had a cheap food policy since the teens IIRC. It hasn't worked out so great. We're having to rob Peter to pay Paul. The corn I paid $8.00/cwt a few years back is $19.00.cwt now and you won't hear a single corn grower complain about it and the subsidies and price supports the gov't has in place that cause that price. You won't hear ADM or Monsanto or any of the hybrid RR seed companies complaining about the $250.00 plus bags of seed corn they sell either or about the laws they're trying to put in place to keep us from growing our own seed that might contain one of their gene strains, even if it's unintentional. It's all mixed up with gov't and corporate entities washing each others backs and buying votes with taxpayer dollars.
It's all a jumbled mess and very little of it is honest or truthful anymore. It can't go on like this forever, so we take some hurt now or take a lot later. I don't see another way out.
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