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jon f mn · Jan 11, 2015

The Iowa Wage and Hour Department claimed a man owning a small farm was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent to interview him.
orks here about 18 hours a day. He takes home $10 a week and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every week," replied the farmer.

"That's the guy I want to talk to; the half-wit," said the agent.

The farmer said, "That would be me."

jlewis457 · Jan 11, 2015

I am a hobby farmer (do 20 acers of hay for my sisters and brother in law for 1/2 a beef), and once told a dairy farmer friend that farmers are some of the dumbest people I have ever met (he did not know how to take this until I finished). Anyone that works so hard to make so little and have to put up with so much, such as little developments crying about his manure spreading and equipment running all hours of the day and night have to love what they are doing or are just plain stupid. He then laughed and said he was too tired most of the time to figure out which one himself.
John

Roy in UK · Jan 11, 2015

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways".
J.F.K.

oldtanker · Jan 11, 2015

(quoted from post at 07:54:42 01/11/15) "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways".
J.F.K.

Here we pay retail and then hat in hand ask buyers "how much are you going to pay me". And sell livestock at auction and grain to an elevator that's exactly what it is.

Story is told about the guy when they farmed with horses who would load his wagon in the morning and slap his jacka$$ on it's rump and let the jacka$$ take his grain into the elevator alone. When ask why he didn't drive the wagon in he said "they pay him as much as they pay me and I got other things to do".
That equates to today and as long as we market like a jacka$$ we are going to get paid like a jacka$$!

Rick

Just Bill · Jan 11, 2015

HOW ABOUT--" WHY DO YOU CHARGE SO MUCH WHEN YOU GET IT FREE"

Jerry He · Jan 11, 2015

BUTTTT He can sell everything he produces at some price. No one else can do that.

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