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North Dakota is a RED state, with two BLUE senators. Montana is a RED state, with two BLUE senators. South Dakota is a RED state, with (finally) one BLUE senator. These are travesties and these are the difference between a majority and a minority. Our inability to develop candidates in these states in literally stunning to those of us outside the area. How can people vote 65% for Bush and then vote for a guy who raises taxes and supports terrorist-appeasement and partial birth abortion by voting to put people like Reid, Schumer, Levin and others in Chairmanships in the Senate!??!

Farmers have been under a socialist system of production quotas and subsidy since the 1950's.

In the name of keeping food cheap so the government can appease the poor with free food handouts, and appease 3rd world countries with free food aid, the goal all along has been to keep food cheap. American agriculture is one business that has not been rewarded for efficiency with more income. The more corn produced, the less the price that is paid. The more beef, the lower price the farmer earns.

In times where most business has indexed it's prices to inflation and cost of living, farm income has decreased per capita. $2.00 a bushel corn was a good price in the 1960's. $2.00 a bushel corn in 2006 is not a good price indexed to inflation. That is why the family farm is disappearing and being replaced by mega corporate farms.
And we all know that many corporations get government handouts, while small business squeaks by with a smaller market share every year.

Farm subsidy is a necessary evil under the current government regulated farm system. When people give away food, someone has to pay for it somehow.
If the farmers could sell their products for what they are worth rather than having the price set by commodity traders who also buy oil etc and reap the profits while raping the hard working American Farmer, agriculture might be a business that young people would be interested in pursuing. Otherwise the skills will be lost forever.