[AT] Off Topic not intended to be political

[Cecil Bearden]

Steve:
You are right.     The other thing that prevents us from having more 
farmers is that a farmer cannot make a living on a quarter section 
anymore.  Due to the low price of food in America, it takes many acres 
to keep a farmer going.   The american public spends such a small 
percentage of their paycheck for food compared to other nations.  The 
price of food has been artificially depressed for 50 years by subsidies 
in order to allow the other industries to prosper.  It is a vicious 
circle.  Without the subsidies, the price of food would probably be 50% 
of the american public's earnings.   What would happen to all the other 
industries if that  occurred?

Cecil in OKla


On 7/21/2016 11:34 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> This is a good read, and makes many good and thought-provoking points,
> except this one:
>
> *"Farm work is dirty, tiring, sometimes cruel and always difficult; which
> is exactly why the percentage of Americans who engage in this work has
> declined with every generation."*
>
> That is NOT why it's declining.  The fact is, exactly enough people are
> employed in farming today.  No one is going hungry.  What would we do with
> more farmers?  The cold fact is that mechanization and industrialization
> have made the few farmers much, much more productive.
>
> SO
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Dad always said the Gummint subsidies were not for the farmer they were
>> for the elevator and the miller.  As soon as the guvmint would publish
>> the target price, wheat prices would drop to make up the difference.
>> When we quit harvesting wheat with a combine and put it in hay, we began
>> to make money.   Dad also said if the Guvmint ever gets into the cattle
>> business, we are screwed.
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/21/2016 8:16 AM, tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>> Nothing political about it.  Just common sense.
>>>
>>> I am not a farmer not because of the hardships of the job and nature but
>> because I could not abide the meddling Government trying to tell you how to
>> do things each step of the way.
>>> I farmed on my own two years and decided that was not what I wanted to
>> do.  I remember seeing my uncle on his front porch loosing patience and
>> telling the 20+ year old Government bureaucrat that he was going in the
>> house to get his rifle and he better be off his *&&^ place when he gets
>> out.  He was all of 7 ft tall bad tempered by that time and meant every
>> word.
>>> The guy was out of range before my uncle reached the front porch. I
>> thought about it long and hard and enrolled in engineering school the next
>> year.
>>> Some times I regret it but then I think back to that day and  get over
>> it.
>>>
>>>         From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>>>    To: Antique tractor email discussion group <
>> at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>    Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 7:28 AM
>>>    Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic not intended to be political
>>>
>>> I think this best sums up what is wrong with the present situation...
>>>
>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>
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