Re: Hope you Farmers Got a Piece of the Increases

Posted by Nebraska Cowman on September 08, 2006 at 07:56:49 from (65.169.97.206):

In Reply to: Hope you Farmers Got a Piece of the Increases posted by TomR Ont on September 07, 2006 at 21:07:04:

You gotta be kidding. When I was a kid (I'm 52 now) ice cream was 59¢ a half gallon and we ate lots of it. What is it now? $2.50? how about eggs? They've gone fom 29¢ to 89¢ in the past 30 years. Woopee. Meanwhile the price of a new automobile has gone up 10 times and so has fuel. Farm machiney? a tractor that cost $2700 in 1965 will cost you $27,000 today. Seed and fertilizer? Let's don't even go there. So yeah, we sell corn and wheat for a couple bucks a bushel, It was that in 1940. Milk has gone from $7 or 8 to maybe a high of $14 CWT. Beef? The cow I sold in 1965 for 14¢ might bring half a buck now. So in conclusion. Food is the cheapest thing we buy hands down. I feel guilty everytime I go to the grocery store knowing that the Americam farmer is working for nothing.

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