That sir is the farmers fault. Simply because most are so concerned about themselves that they refuse to work together. That means getting together and figuring out just how much corn to plant of beef to raise. Then telling the buyer how much they have to pay. No we send product to market based on an auction or what they are willing to pay because they know that in the long run we are going to over produce chasing the almighty dollar. But no, the average farmer plants based on last years prices. You pay a penalty for being to independent. You can't get them to work together unless someone is sick or injured.
Sorry but that is the truth. If every farmer would get on a forum and figure out just how much corn or beans teach can plant without cutting each others throats and go from there we wouldn't have this problem. This is an example of capitalism at it's worst. Do you think that Ford, GM or Fiat Chrysler over produces if
Rick they can help it? No they look at the economy and sales history. Which one of you has looked at the history of farm markets over the last 30 or 40 years to decide what to plant? Nope this past year proved you or at least most didn't. All they looked at was 7+ dollar corn last year. And now it's what? 4.50 or so? And if they get rain in South America it will dive from there.
Sorry, based on the track record of the American farmer we do not deserve anything except maybe a kick in the back side.
We do not feed the world. Not even close. So, other than stab ourselves in the back what have we, the farmers, not the AG companies, done that deserves recognition? Others, let say construction workers put in long hours too. In the military, US Army the average duty day was 11 hours. PT at 6AM and off at 5PM (maybe but the average was more like 5:30). That was 5 days a week 52 weeks a year, unless on deployments where you maybe got 4 hours of sleep a day. If you were a leader it was more than that. Yea, we as farmers put in long hours....sometimes unless you are dairy. But non dairy guys don't put in long hours year round.
When I was Platoon SGT sometimes I was also the Platoon Leader. My pay was such that my family could have drawn food stamps (we didn't).But my actions and decisions affected the careers and the very lives of my soldiers. All while drawing welfare wages. Do I deserve thanks? NO! Not in the least! I made my decisions based on what I believed in. And I signed a contract with the government and swore an oath because of what I thought (that thought was that each and every one of you was worth my effort). There was no opportunity to throw in the towel. It wasn't like I'm setting now. I can call it quits anytime I want now. I'm a farmer!. I can keep my land and make money on it by renting it out! I'm debt free. I can auction off my equipment and be done with it! No more loaded guns for skunks and other critters, no worries about rain and crops, no repairs or newer equipment! I'm doing what I'm doing because I want to. So why should someone loose profit because I'm hard headed? Every other farmer I know, big and small are just like me. independent thinkers who are hard headed. I'm proud to be part of that group. But that doesn't mean I'm going to lie to myself or others about how important we are when we can't even work together.
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