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Posted on 01/04/2006 11:00:45 PM PST by crazyhorse691
The problem with 999 out of 1000 self-sufficient farms is that they are not, which is the fault of the farmer who buys stuff. Buying stuff takes money, so right away the farm is a business, and probably a money-losing business.
You missed the entire point of this thread.
"This agenda, Klein asserted, has turned the UN into a coven of special interest groups and pitted it against the world's only remaining superpower, the United States."
I agree with Klein.
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European socialism coming to America!
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Sounds like the rural version of a transit authority...who cares if it don't make money? Just take some more from cash from the taxpayers, give it to the union, and keep those trains rolling.
Certainly a lesson in the feasablity farm economics for the mentally challenged, including government.
If the land is given to a group with no financial constraints to become economically supporting, there will not be a lesson learned in farm economics......no matter how good the organic food is. But the land is safe from development. The Greenie weenies have won.
It is difficult enough to figure out the economic feasability of purchasing a marginal 280 acre farm at $300,000. Hmmmm how much will the interest be? Oh and there is also something called paying off the principal note. And how much will have to be produced to make the payments?? How much equipment will be needed to reach production goals and how much will that cost?? Hmmm
hmmmmmmm 7 acres..........$200K???
I see the Infomercial Headline...MAKE A FORTUNE IN AGRIBUSINESS ON 7 ACRES! lol
Agriculture has been under a socialist management system since the formation of the USDA and farm subsidys.
The Chicago board of Trade, sets the value of agricultural products, and the farmer is dependant on what the CBT says will be paid on a given day for a given crop or animal. Free market forces have been non existant in agriculture for years because competition is limited to the CBT commodity structure.
The consumer has been lulled into complacency by the promise of cheap and safe food and has no clue about the socialist implications of the American Agriculture regulators.
Yes, and that promise of cheap and safe food is a hoax.
Soylent Green is in our future!
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