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Posted by JMS/MN on September 10, 2003 at 11:08:38 from (65.178.208.87):
In Reply to: Do you make money farming crops? (need to be educa posted by KURT (mi) on September 10, 2003 at 02:43:20:
This a post replete with misinformation. There is no current land setaside program which pays farmers not to plant a crop, nor has there been one for many years. Feed corn is not sweet corn. "Feed corn"- your term, I assume to be normal field corn,which is what we feed our livestock or sell in normal market channels for other users to feed. Many years ago there was a program where a farmer could plant POPCORN for silage, and it would not count against the allowable base corn acres. He still had to comply with planting only the allowable corn acres, in order to receive government benefits. The government does not directly set prices, but it's policies most definately INFLUENCES prices- no matter which party is in charge. The margin on growing crops is extremely thin, and often non-existent, and certainly non-existent if ALL production costs are considered. Farmers would much rather get all of their revenue from the marketplace, like it was years ago, when they had real control over their acreage, but it doesn't help when so much untruth is spread by those who simply don't know what they are talking about.
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