Sonny Clark
Diamond Member
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- #61
Farmers chose that life. Weather comes with the territory. Farmers are paid very well for the risks they take. They are greatly rewarded. And, they have plenty of money to hold them over should something happen to their crops. Also, they have crop insurance. They are not living on nickels and dimes. Have you seen their homes? Have you seen their airfields and private planes? I worked for the U.S.D.A. for ten years. I know how wealthy they are. Subsidies have made many of them very rich. And, many of them use cheap illegal immigrant labor. How many For Sale signs have you seen outside farm homes and farm land? Most of the land is handed down from generation to generation. Some of it is owned by large corporations. Farmers are NOT poor.All people in business take risks, it comes with the territory. Nothing is guaranteed, nothing. By the way, weather affects many businesses.News flash. It doesn't require subsidies in order to have farmers. Farmers have been around for many thousands of years. Where there's a demand, someone will fill that demand. Someone will always farm in order to provide food. It's been that way from the beginning of man. How long have subsidies been around? What did we do for food from farmers before subsidies?
Instead of getting rid of farm subsidies why not allocate to the ones who need it to stay afloat, and the big Gov. and Gov. backed farms, get less or none?
And no they won't keep farming if there is a need. They will sell and retire in the subdivision they just created. Food is going to get expensive and scarce, and Monsanto will come up with a genetically engineered food substitute for your culinary needs.
If they need subsidies to stay afloat, then they should go out of business.
In any other business maybe, but farming has to rely on things that they have no control over. For instance, farmers are at the mercy of weather. They can lose all of there crops due to drought, or too much rain one year and have a good crop the next. It's not that they are bad farmers. It's that they have to plant and hope for the best. Will there be enough bees to pollinate the trees this year, will an early frost kill their produce, will there be a new blight this year..........
Not like farmers. A good rain may effect a golf course for a day or two. It can wipe out a year's worth of crops.
A farmer takes a risk with every single spring plant. There isn't a risk or two, it's a plethora of risks every spring that can effect the productivity of the farm through no fault of the farmer. Can you tell me how well the soy crop will do this year? Why not?