Re: Organic Farming

Posted by oldtanker on October 17, 2013 at 15:34:04 from (66.228.255.116):

In Reply to: Organic Farming posted by sammydwm on October 17, 2013 at 14:22:14:

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Guess what? We ixport just about as much milk/milk products and we import so that kinda balances at a big fat whopping ZERO. WE import far more beef than we export. So that leaves the US beer farmer in the minus range.

We actually consume more beef than we raise. That's why we allow the import of beef and milk. That started after the farm melt down in the 80's when farmers started to specialize and just produce one thing.

The point I was making of turning food stuffs into fuel is that we can in fact go back to none chemical farming and still produce enough food with the current land being farmed if we stop turning corn into ethanol. Current prices on corn is plain greed and stupidity. Most guys with corn ground planted every acre they could into corn this year because of prices last year, trying to chase that buck. It's happened before and will again. Guy has to think to stay ahead. If a certain crop in high this year you can bet that everyone will be planting that crop next year if their soil and growing area will support it. Now I'm not saying we should. I'm just stating that we could. There are several large problems with going back. The biggest would be enough people who know how to operate a tractor that would be willing to do just seasonal work or who want to learn how to farm. You really don't want some kid right out of high school who's never been on a 100,000 dollar tractor trying to cultivate corn or beans.

Just because something has been done the same way for years doesn't mean we need to change how we do it if it works. You have certain people out there that would change how we make babies, now what fun would that be? Been making babies the same way sense man first walked on the earth. We can do it other ways but are you going to jump on that way of doing it because it's more modern/productive?

Don't bite my head off for stating the truth. American farmers DO NOT FEED THE WORLD. They never have. They could. If American farmers fed the world no other country would have farmers raising anything that could be grown in the US. Yet every country in the world has some type of farming going on. And the foods they raise are consumed in their countries and may be exported too. That's not saying they don't import some foods.

Rick

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