Posted by trucker40 on February 05, 2009 at 15:50:58 from (69.151.56.112):
In Reply to: Re: Ia Ag Economics posted by CaseChev on February 05, 2009 at 15:05:42:
I just went and looked at the beef and hog prices,both down a lot from last year.My point is farming has nothing to do with the"market".Farmers get robbed,and middlemen get rich.They have gotten away with it so long they think they are entitled to do that.Thats your Wall Street uploading wealth of farmers. The price of land is high now,it wasnt always,but it will go down.I help a couple of farmers and see that bigger is not better most of the time.Compared to the early 70s to now,a"farmer"struggles to get crops planted in time,then struggles to harvest them.If it werent for Roundup they wouldnt even be able to farm at all.If they passed a law,and Roundup and other chemicals were banned,farming would disappear as we know it now.It wouldnt even take that,a disease in corn,chickens and other things could wipe them out.Very few could survive if they missed a couple of crops.If banks dont loan them money this spring,things can get a lot leaner for everybody. Basing anything such as you say you do is not even a drop in the ocean as to what is involved.Family Farming is suffering its last pangs of death,there is no sugar coating that fixes it,and what goes on from here is not the best of farmers,its the ones who can get money.Its always been kinda that way,except now its critical.Its actually stupid to try and put a nice neat little explanation on how good farming is when there is so much wrong with it.Maybe if you read a history book,and one that actually is honest,you might kind of see what happened.Easy as I can make it is this,the price of everything has gone up at least 10-20 times what it was in 1970,and farmers pay is struggling to double.Thats a weird way to pay back people you owe your life to.Time to get a new way of looking at things unless you want to starve in the future.Farmers care if you starve,Wall Street doesnt care about you at all,and Wall Street doesnt care about farmers.
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