I can comment on farmers because I was one, myself, once.
I've always wondered if farmers understand the law of supply and demand. Corn prices are down because of an over supply on the market. So, they plant every square foot into corn to have more bushels to sell to increase income, putting more downward pressure on prices. Have they ever considered alternative crops instead?
What I'm getting at is, when I was in high school in the early 1950's I worked for a neighboring farmer, "Spike", for a couple of summers. He was early 30's, third generation on that farm, had been to college and got a degree in some area of agri-business, and looked at farming with a slightly different perspective than the older neighbors.
Spike began growing soybeans at a time when it was unheard of to grow soybeans in Nebraska. Still raised corn and wheat, but every year he had a respectable field of soybeans. The older, traditional neighbors laughed at him and said he was crazy for growing soybeans. Yet when these same neighbors complained about not making enough money off of corn and wheat, Spike had a stabilizing source of income from (tah-dah) his soybeans.
So, I've often wondered why today's farmers don't look at alternative crops. Milo was big here in Nebraska 30-50 years ago, but you don't see it much anymore. One thing about milo, if you had a dry spell in the summer when corn would have been done for, milo would go dormant and then when the rains came it would wake back up and continue developing where it left off.
BTW, several years later, Spike said to hell with farming, went back to school, and studied to become a mortician. He spent the rest of his life as a partner in a mortuary. Took him a while to get rid of the nickname "Spike".
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