[AT] Dairy farming. Dying industry?

[CEE VILL]

I share your same concerns, Joe.  Maybe we just like to worry to much, but I 
see the same problem with all levels of manufacture.  It seems that most of 
our backbone industries have been exported.  One has to wonder how the U.S. 
would make out today if a WW II type of build up should ever be required 
again. I think the one consolation is that Americans as a whole are still a 
very people who could rise to most occasions.

Charlie


>From: <joehardy at epix.net>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Dairy farming. Dying industry?
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:01:19 -0500
>
>Charlie, This whole farming thing is very worrysome to me. We have become 
>so dependent on imports of all farm products resulting in forcing our 
>farmers in the US of A to quit; what happens if imports suddenly stop? 
>Fewer & fewer persons keep a garden or know how to grow one! Farmers that 
>continue to be in business today have to be multi-skilled; some of which 
>can't be learned from a text book. We could very quickly develop a food 
>shortage. The problem, as I see it, is our government on both the state & 
>federal levels are out of touch with our farmers.  My $0.02 Joe Hardisky  
>Ryman Farm; Dallas, PA>
> > From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
> > Date: 2007/02/25 Sun AM 11:30:07 EST
> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Subject: [AT] Dairy farming. Dying industry?
> >
> > With the list being pretty quiet, it seems a good time to toss in this
> > article from a Pa. newspaper which I read yesterday.  Sad but 
>interesting
> > read if you are interested.
> >
> > Charlie V.
> >
> > P.S.   (tractor ref.) These guys use a lot of tractors.  Fodder for 
>future
> > collectors.
> >
> >     02/24/2007
> > Casey hears concerns of local dairy farmers
> > BY DAVID SINGLETON
> > TIMES SHAMROCK WRITER
> >
> >
> > SOUTH CANAAN --- As he walked U.S. Sen. Bob Casey through his Wayne 
>County
> > barn, Joe Davitt summed up the crisis confronting Northeastern
> > Pennsylvania's dairy farmers in a tidy 16 words.
> >
> > "We provide a product to feed the world," the 37-year-old dairyman
> > said, "and we can't afford to feed our families."
> >
> > With Mr. Davitt's barn as the stage and part of his herd as the 
>backdrop,
> > Mr. Casey listened for more than an hour Friday as about 20 area dairy
> > farmers pleaded their case for federal assistance to help keep their
> > operations afloat.
> >
> > The Scranton Democrat, who sits on the Senate Agriculture

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