Yes, but if Joe and a couple of his kids own and operate 3 car dealerships we call it a "business" even if it's gross sales is the same as the mega-family farm.
My point is that lots of people on this forum state that without us farmers you-all would starve. Yep. But we both know that farmers are doing it for the money, because when and if the money stops the farm is sold. And even though there are less and less farmers, the overall acreage being farmed has probably not shrunk very much. At least I don't see a lot of idle crop land. Maybe you know the statistics. Fewer operators, same amount of land. (except for that being swallowed up by urban areas). One of my pet peeves.
My point is that farms are businesses, operated for profit, not for some altruistic desire to feed fellow Americans. Therefore the oft used argument that farmers deserve some special treatment due to their generosity falls on deaf ears with me. I did not say that all corn or pork is exported, but a lot of it is, especially the pork for Smithfield. And The USA is the worlds 3rd largest rice exporter in the world, or 8.8% of all the worlds rice exports. And a cotton or tobacco farmer is still a farmer, even if you can't eat his product.
I just think the whole argument that since we are farmers we don't need rules, we know what to do, and we can inconvenience anybody we want to because we were here first, is unlikely to get very far, even with this administration.
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