Really? My Dad is a farmer, started out dirt poor 30 years ago and now is quite comfortable, as are most of the other farmers around here. It is not the bankers, doctors, and accountants who are the wealthiest around here, it is the farmers. I wish I would have bought up thousands of acres of farmland at $200-300 acre like my Dad did.
The environmental regulations, together with the prospect of paying for a new $3 million school for a drastically-declining school-age population, has put one of my brothers out of farming and is threatening to put the other brother out as well. That’s in northeast Nebraska.