Posted by cat236 on January 16, 2008 at 02:34:42 from (64.136.49.229):
I went down to my friends farm today,he just had major surgery on his spine and will be down for awhile, I went to check property as I will arrange to have fields planted this year for him.The community in which he lives has a long heritage of farming as this was the key occupation of most of the inhabitants.Now just a bunch of suburbanites that drive 40- 60 miles to work each day, so they can live in this bustlin community.This community with a distinguished past now "discourages" such affiliation with its heritage, they want to be known as a major metropolitan area, with high end homes, not Sod Busters.They have tried to annex my friends land in to "City Limits". His is the last, and one of the oldest working farms in this community.As his health declines he is ready to quit fighting it,in addition the latest offers he recieved make it all but impossible,at around 22,500 and acre nothing but planting houses will produce an income such as this for him.As a nation will we be able to produce our traditional crops, as well as a growing demand for bio diesel, and ethanol crops all at the same time?Is there a website or resource to find out how many tillabe acres are in a given community? My heart sank as I think of our future.I grew up on a large production farm in Iowa. I saw the transition from the diversity of crops and livestock to either or,for the most part, as the livestock prices plummeted years ago.My uncle just added 120 acres this last year,I crunched the numbers and quickly saw he would likely not realize any profit on the new ground for many years to come. I love the old iron, and the old way of life,and am sickened by the world I live in today.
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