Posted by trucker40 on December 27, 2008 at 10:04:16 from (69.154.212.220):
In Reply to: Salute to the Farmers posted by John B. on December 26, 2008 at 20:17:19:
Everything depends on agriculture.Unlike the rest of industry,if farmers cant grow food everybody will starve.Just like everything else they kept beating on them more and more and there are less and less farmers.Now the costs of fertilizer and equipment keep going up,but the price of the grain and animals raised for meat have not gone up accordingly.From when the farmers could only barely get by,to now,all the crooks have ever done is steal everything they could get away with.Things like the Chicago Board of Trade were thought up to steal more.Now where years ago you had one man farming 40 acres with a mule,now you have one man with a lot of machines farming 1000 acres and getting 4 times better yield off of the same dirt that was worn out 100 years ago.Far as pollution goes,industry pollutes way more than farming does.Where farming causes problems is when you have 1000s of animals all piled up in a small area that causes pollution thats bad.When you have farming that they pour chemicals on the crops rather than cultivate.Instead of the past 125 years,pollution has got way worse since the 60s.Confinement animals,Roundup ready crops,have ruined farming.Now a man with 1000 acres only makes a good living like a guy with 40 acres and a mule,a few cows and pigs did at one time.Ridiculous.Off of that same thousand acres a guy that sells chemicals,a seed salesman,a banker,an equipment dealer,a feed salesman,an insurance man,crop buyers,meat buyers,all make a good little pile of money off of one poor farmers work,plus a lot more people.Everybody has their hand out.This is the big corporate welfare give away that has everything in a mess.The farmer should have a lot more say in the price of what he sells rather than give it to the thieves to make more than the man doing the labor to produce it.There needs to be some way to fix that.Farmers needed to stick together years ago and say no to things that worked against them.Things probably are going to get worse,then collapse,before they get better.It has to get fixed someway.Thanks to those that survived so far.
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