Re: So why are some farms more successful /

Posted by RandyB(MI) on February 08, 2018 at 08:52:53 from (71.89.187.106):

In Reply to: So why are some farms more successful / posted by Bruce from Can. on February 08, 2018 at 07:31:33:

Good post Bruce! I will address one comment you made about countries paying their farmers to raise crops /livestock at a loss. Some may dispute this but it is happening right here in the good ole USA with $$$$ from our Govt. and Crop Ins companies as we speak. We have a local farmer who is renting up every spare, odd shaped "un farmed" acreage he can get his hands on , even grassy lands around local airport etc , plants the most sickly corn crop you've ever seen. No fert/sprays , cultivates once(???) crop ins pays the diff. between his yield and the standard for the area. Between his small yield and the ins. $$$ he makes more than the big yield farmers in the end. Just one example. Govt. subsidies for everything from milk to eggs. Eggs sell at Meijer for .70 a doz. That pays Meijer , trucker,processer and farmer still makes it out of whats left???? Not likely. The Government wants complete control over our food and if let to will get it. The farmer will own the land and Govt will provide equipment and pay wages . Already happening , especially in South/Central America and some here. When they do get control...watch out. They have been paying farmers to grow nothing ( as long as they followed Govt rules/guidlines) since the '60,s (soilbank) Stipulation was...you had to divulge to Govt the use/crop of every acre you owned. And we wonder why commodity prices do what they do??? And now even the seed companies are blackmailing the farmer. Sometimes the farmer is his own worst enemy. The two things that allow a farmer to make money on his product , independence & supply/demand are long gone. You can put up all the bins you want to "hold back " crop....doesn't do much good when "they" know exactly how much you have and where it is. Farmers have been bought and paid for and the BTO are the business men that know how to exploit it. Oh, and by the way, keep you eye out for local "ordinances" to prohibit people from selling garden produce and eventually even for small acreage hobby farmers from operating , either by means of over regulation and or requiring outragous liability ins or other ordinances/regulations to make it impossible for small time competition. It's coming. They will "sneak" it through in the most devious ways. They have lawyers/marketing strategists making millions on their side.

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• Re: So why are some farms more successful / rrlund 09:42:31 02/08/18 (0)

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