Posted on 08/15/2016 10:55:44 AM PDT by Lorianne
I wonder why Mainichi Shimbun is interested in this...
Oh boo hoo. Low prices? Not in the grocery stores. Oh a bad year when farmers are one of the riches groups in America. No sympathy.
Farm conglomerates are; family farms aren’t.
Translation: I need more govt subsidies so I can drive an $80,000 loaded suv with tax exempt farm tags.
Sorry, I have my really small violin here somewhere...I just have a hard time finding it. Does the article mention the size of the milk subsidy the dairy farmer gets?
Farmers complaining. Nothing new.
Perhaps if he took up another profession say network news anchor, he could really make farming work. Peter Jennings did real well...
You can make money as a dairy farmer with a few minor steps:
1) Inherit the land and equipment without any debt.
2) Have a full time job off the farm
3) Have a spouse with a full time job off the farm.
Live on the spouses income, and use your income to subsidize the operation, and you should be able to have a positive income each year.
I don’t know. I know a family in Maryland who has 280 acres and they are rich! Definitely 1 percent. Don’t let the overalls fool you.
It’s been 30+ years since Willie Nelson sang at a Farm Aid benefit back in 1985 and people are still going into the farming business.
A few thoughts:
1) The milk business is heavily regulated and very political. The milk farmers did not benefit from high grain and hay prices, they had to buy at those high prices.
2) 300 cows would still be a family operation.
3) solution would be big farming and big government
4) why in a Japanese paper? looking for investors?
5) At one time it was important to have a 3 years reserve of grain. this created a lot of STABILITY but lower prices. Today, if we don’t use the LAST BUSHEL the same day the new crop comes in we screwed up.
Do you understand how tentative your food supply is compared to 20 years back?
Maybe they could switch over to having government wild horses like the Food Network’s multi-millionaire Ree Drummond who’s about as far away from being a “Pioneer Woman” as you can get with their BLM contract. Sure, they inherited a lot but they’ve also received millions from the taxpayers.
Thirty years of Farm-Aid.....where has all the money gone?
>Farm conglomerates are; family farms arent.
Neither ‘deserving’ of having our pockets picked.
Free Market and let the market decide how profitable and/or price point.
Course, nanny govt will have to get out of the way...as usual.
The BLM wild horse/burro thing is a huge scam. They under cut horse breeders and have tanked the horse market. They pay people to keep these animals and have very little oversight.
What do they grow? Luxury high-rises?
Sounds like a classical imbalance of supply and demand being corrected by market forces — in spite of a staggering amount of federal support and market-meddling.
If you aren’t an efficient low-cost producer, you deserve to go out of business. That’s just the way it is.
Don’t waste your time trying to talk to people who don’t know how farming works. You’ll get nothing but scorn and hatred. See the replies above.
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