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Re: What happened to farming pride?
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Posted by Jonboy on February 11, 2005 at 19:47:32 from (165.121.147.38):
In Reply to: What happened to farming pride? posted by Youngfarmerguy on February 10, 2005 at 21:54:54:
I can answer to the JD base ball caps, those were made popular by the actor Ashton Kutcher who wore one while on the MTV show "Punk'd". This guy was infuential enough that many city kids decided it was really cool and rushed to the JD dealers just to buy a JD hat. even though they had never owned, driven, or had any knowlege of JD equipment of any kind, simply those hats were cool because a famous actor wore one. Farming, like everything else is ran as big buisness now. 1 pencil pusher (owner) in the middle of it, and hired hands to do all the work. Like everything else, it is cheaper to do things on a much larger scale, grain is cheaper as you are so big and buy so much, the grain man will bend over backwards for your buisness and cut you deals on big loads of grain, seed is always cheaper if you buy huge quantitys, and gets cheaper the more you buy, fertilizer, etc... same way, it's amazing how much money the big farmer can save and thats why agriculture has gone the way it has. The smaller operators get ripped off on their grain and everything else, and they don't get paid any more for their milk than the big guys do. If you want to farm then you'll have to follow suit and go big time yourself to farm fulltime. I don't see anything but smaller farms folding around here and being bought out by another farmer who ownes 5-6-7-8-10 farms already. Tis the future, get used to it, no more making a good living off 10-12 cows like granddad could tell of.
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