Posted on 10/10/2025 9:26:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What nonsense. If you run out of food, you go to the grocery store to get more.
Not enough water? Turn on the tap.
No electricity? There’s the wall socket.
Exactly.
Where do you think that food comes from? A Farmer...
>>Go to farm-to-table dinners. Visit your farmers’ market. Buy a meat box or a CSA (community supported agriculture) share.
We bought a house 4 years ago in a big exurban development. Got to know some local farmers through some farm to table dinners they were doing with a local chef in an event facility they have on their farm. We’ve gone to one or two of these dinners every year, and just finished our 3rd year of doing a CSA produce bag every week.
So I’ve been doing my part in that way for the last 4 years. I like knowing someone who grows food.
Farms aren’t going away. Family farms are being bought out by agriculture companies like ADM. It’s happening throughout the Midwest in particular. Take a drive and count all the crumbling barns and farm houses.
You cAnt make a living g on 200 acres in central Texas let alone cash flow $14000 an acre. Nobody else could afford the product produced to cover such cost. Absurd.
My FIL just managed to feed three families on 3000 acres of good irrigated Red River bottom land and they worked their asses off to do it. He was also a very good manager.
Farmers need low interest loans to get their crops in the ground. High operating costs are sucking them dry.
Bill Gates owns lots of farmland.
He’s not out there at sunrise with a tractor.
Judging by what I see at Whalemart, there’s not a shortage of food.
“so new families can step onto farmland”
Farming is tough even for people with decades of experience.
“crumbling barns”
They were rotting away in the 1960s in upstate New York.
Farmland can be leased.
People could lease five acres off a 10-acre estate.
Correct.
Farming is like doctoring for plants.
“National Security”
Mustard greens are very easy to grow.
Eat them raw and find out why bugs don’t.
Cook them and enjoy them.
Mr. Gates, how much interest do you pay on your farmland?
None, I bought it after selling Microsoft shares.
In the Old South there was a system called sharecropping.
Land and planting supplies were provided upfront by the plantation owner for about 30 percent of the crop.
https://decorhint.com/inside-ellen-degeneres-30-million-cotswolds-farmhouse/
It’s a converted set of farm buildings on 43 acres I believe.
Mr. Haney would smile.
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