Posted by Traditional Farmer on October 01, 2018 at 07:59:51 from (71.219.29.198):
In Reply to: The Future Of Farming posted by vicinalvictor on October 01, 2018 at 06:22:47:
Farming is like most businesses in that there are good times and bad times to ride out.With most businesses the bad times are when the folks on the lower rung of the ladder,those with too much debt,poor managers,those that took high risks at the wrong time etc go bankrupt and the more efficient and better managers are left then the cycle takes over again.Farming has had the Gov't step in many times during bad times to save the people that really should have gone bankrupt but were able to hang on with Gov't money.End result many farming now should have been broke years ago.With corn and soybeans now they have gotten so easy to grow its almost like a factory so these big mega operations can grow grain on a massive scale and are happy with a profit margin that smaller farmers would starve.So it goes the small farmers that embraced the new GMO and Chemical technology were really embracing their own demise making it so easy to grow crops.Deal with a Rattlesnake long enough sooner or later it'll bite and kill you,so it goes with grain farmers today and dairy farmers too really.
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