Remember the good old days when the big complaint was ‘paying farmers not to plant’?
Of course it was far more complicated than that and the truth boiled down to a ‘cheap food for consumers’ program by the government. That worked for, what, 5 decades?
Cheap food, and poor farmers.
I remember telling a lot, and I do mean a lot, of Freepers that if things ever turned to where the farmer had the financial freedom to opt out of the government programs they’d do it in a heartbeat, and the Freepers would be bitching about food prices.
Now grain farmers are actually starting to make the kind of money that normal businessmen who invest millions, work long, long days, and take big risks make.
At least we don’t have to ‘pay farmers not to plant’ anymore.
As a retired farmer, I think the new system is fairer, but as I predicted not so many years ago, the gripes continue.
But we still do, which is why we have all of these gentleman farmers who own vast tracts of land and have never plowed a single furrow
There is government money out there in those unplanted field just waiting for these rich men to fill out the forms saying they are farmers.