Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning.

Posted by paul on April 10, 2003 at 05:56:55 from (66.60.196.171):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. posted by Deas Plant. on April 10, 2003 at 05:00:59:

The city folk in the USA have zero understanding of farming. They like tight regulation of everything, and they feel good when 'other people' are forced to do 'environmentally sound' things.

The government in this country, as everywhere, likes to get bigger & oversee everyone, everyone's business, and everything.

All together, city folk say they want small family farms and are anti- big agrobusiness. But every law they support washes away more small farmers, and ensures only large corporate farms can survive.

The government in the USA will only support large corn, soybean, & wheat farms. (And wheat is borderline.) The government support programs aim at ensuring a couple dollar an acre profit on those main crops. If you try to plant anything else, the government punishes you by taking away benifits garenteed to those 3 main crops. If you try to remain small, the govt will take away 'good years' and ensure with their farm programs that, year after year, you only get 5-10 dollars an acre profit. There is no chance to succeed unless you have 10,000 acres & plant corn, soybeans, or maybe wheat.

It is a case of the government constantly saying farmers should diversify & become self-supporting; and then yanking the chair out from anyone who tries to do so.

City folk like what the govt says, and don't understand how the govt policies they support are preventing that very thing!

City folk in the USA are used to being highly regulated, and feel farmers should also be as regulated.

But no one seems willing to pay an extra nickel for their morning cereal to pay for those regulations.

The govt offers some help in meeting those regulations - so long as you are ecconomically large enough to be worth bothering with. The small farmers must meet the same 'one-size-fits-all' regulations, but are offered $100 to implement the $20,000 requirement.

Such is the state of agriculture in the USA.

Small corner ma & pa grocery stores faded out in the 1960's. Everything in the USA has become large, industrialized, and govt regulated.

It's just agriculture's turn, I guess.

The govt and city folks want zero pollution from agriculture as well as free food. So that is the direction the laws in this country will take.

Farmers who try to change that are labeled as whiners & wanting to suckle at the govt's teat.

At this time, one can't change that direction in the USA.

Probably not so different anywhere else in on the globe these days.

--->Paul

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