[tiki]

I tell you what, farmers won’t like it at all, we’ve (and most farmers) have been operating on the margins for years and this looks wonderful to me. We’ve been waiting for an upturn for years, we’ve remortgaged countless times to keep going and you get your way and if we can’t make the Cash Flow, flow, it would be better not to farm at all.

I don’t think we stand alone in this. Farmers could choose to cut back or not farm at all, I know a lot who have already made this decision. So beware of what you advocate and ask for. It is past time for the price of food to get more realistic.

[Etoo]

[It is past time for the price of food to get more realistic.]

 

I won't argue with that.  The American heartland - seated firmly upon a foundation formed by the American family farm - has long been unappreciated and undervalued.

 

Achieving this objective, however, by cannibalizing food production in favor of inefficiently produced energy - IMHO is short sighted madness.