Re: Do you make money farming crops? (need to be e

Posted by JOHN (LA) on September 11, 2003 at 07:35:07 from (67.35.252.18):

In Reply to: Do you make money farming crops? (need to be educa posted by KURT (mi) on September 10, 2003 at 02:43:20:

BOY you all have hit on a subject here!!!!!!!!!
Do not know what the CRP program does for row crops any more but do know the goverment has both hands in farming. Just in my state the farmers are allways lobieing for tariffs on imported products. I think if they did not have tarrifs every RICE; SUGAR; and CRAWFISH farmer in our state would be in trouble. Milk is even subsidize or at least a minumum price is set by goverment.
On the personal side my grandfather and father both owned a dairy. When it came my turn I could not run away fast enough. Yes I got my plush 40 hr work week and my little yard in the suburbes. I do not get up at 4am and work past dark 366 days a year. BUT what did I give up.
Like my dad told me when I was young. Farming is not about the money or subsedies or profits and losses. Yes every one needs to make a living. Some even think the money is good. A dairy today that is not making well into the 6 figure number is going broke. But you take out for feed, vet, fuel, equiptment, breakdowns, cow loses ect..... and what do you have left not much. Do not get me wrong as a child we had a nice house, shoes on our feet, and food on the table.
Farming is about the life style. Leaving the rat race behind and working with your children and loved ones in your own bussiness the FAMILY FARM. Yes it is going away: being owned and run by some city slicker in some office building that could not even start a tractor if his life depended on it. And yes there is those I have seen over the years that bought land with no intension of farming; just cause they knew someone in washington and wanted some free subsidies.
BUT I guess that is the times we are in today.

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