Posted by paul on March 20, 2018 at 09:39:10 from (66.60.223.229):
In Reply to: Re: Farm Problem posted by Traditional Farmer on March 20, 2018 at 07:46:40:
Govt owns the big hammer. They can wreck Ag economy real fast, one signature. Or more slowly, with crop yield/planting reports. Or with bad farm programs as the grain bank turned out to be in the 1980s.
So I think we can blame them?
A lot of other stuff I agree, it is our own fault.
shake off all the other stuff, and the People, represented by the govt, want there to be a surplus of food available cheaply. That is a main, solid, goal. Now if we do that, encourage that, we are manipulating the markets. How can farming survive 'on its own, don't blame anyone' when our markets are being manipulated?
And so we talk out of both sides of our mouth.
People say they want to buy local and eat organically. They say that only because their life doesn't depend on it. There is whole store full of food they can fall back on, it is always stocked to the rafters.
If we -really- had no manipulation of the markets, and the govt was entirely hands off, and that suburban family -really- did live off of the local market, which means going really hungry when there is a local storm.....
Then your argument would make a whole lot of sense.
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