Yep, no one appreciates anyone else. Truth be told the one person we can't do without? The truck driver/train crews. Without the truck driver and trains nothing the farmer produces goes to market. Without that infrastructure no fuel gets delivered, no coal to make electricity, no parts for equipment, nothing, nada, zip! Farmers would still be looking at the south end of a north bound mule or horse. What little he did produce would be consumed in the local markets.
I know a kid who works for CaseIH in the Fargo plant. Without him and folks like him working there, JD and other places there would be no nice equipment to get the work done with.
And that's what I've been trying to tell you guys. What's getting to the average US citizen in video clips of very nice homes, 60-80 K pickups and 300-400 thousand dollar tractors and some farmer crying about being broke. That's what they see because that's what the main stream media wants them to see. They don't show the people the guy out there with a beat up 4020 or 1066, 190XT and well used equipment working a job in town to make ends meet. Kinda hard to work up sympathy for that BTO when his tractor is worth 2 median level homes.
Young people today don't watch any farm shows, have all of their music on a smart phone that links via bluetooth to the car radio. So they don't listen to ag talk either.
Local school superintendent says that on average in a rural area that a mere 7% of the students have parents who either farm or work in an AG related job. You are less than 1 percent of the population. Maybe another 10-15 % know and understand the problems associated with farming. The other 84/85% don't know and don't care as long as food is in the store when they go shopping.
What that 85% or so thinks matters to the politicians too. Right now, right or wrong many of em think yer trying to poison them and killing the environment because of the information that is getting to them.
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