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Re: falling old equipment values
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Posted by TomR Ont. on April 15, 2004 at 00:04:01 from (209.226.132.51):
In Reply to: falling old equipment values posted by Jonathan on April 13, 2004 at 10:35:30:
A few reasons why small farmers are not able to make a go of old fashon farming. 1) Huge food processing corporations.
Birdseye-McCain's-Campbells-Paramalt-Geen giant and others. 2) Corporate Farms large enough to keep small farm prices low, they may not even harvest their own crops if it's cheeper to buy from the small farmer. 3) Huge Commercial Farms that pool resources and buy the largest equipment available plow, cultivate and harvest huge acreage in less time =less costs. 4) The Wallmarts of the farming industry will always try to make their bottom line better at any cost weather it's grain, corn, beef, pork or chicken. Just think how little the farmer gets for a pound of potatoes (maybe 2c ?) how much a lb. did you pay for your last bag of chips. ($2.00 a lb.?) When they get this GMO food settled and everyone excepts it, again the big corporations who have pattons on the seed will have control of all agra. food supply. In the future they will make the majority of the seed sold. Eventually will it be engineered not to reproduce it's self? If so back to the man or whom ever owns the pattons. If someone saves their seeds that reproduces it's self, will possibly have GMO DNA and will not be legally able to sell it.
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