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Farmers across America ditch tractors for oxen in bid to beat rising fuel prices
The Daily Mail ^
| May 9, 2011
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 05/15/2011 7:01:59 AM PDT by bkopto
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And so it begins: the first wave of abandonment of modernity, as architected by the Greens, socialists and the Democrats.
Obama is smiling. Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:02:03 AM PDT
by
bkopto
To: bkopto
Lurching toward 3rd world status......how nice.
To: bkopto
And we have to learn it from a Brit newspaper
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:04:35 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: bkopto
I agree. We are becoming a third world nation. Replacing tractors for Oxen?!! How in the world is that suppose to be a “good” thing? I guess the kids will eventually ride a pony to school instead of a car like their Pop-Pop did when he was a kid (in Indiana during the Depression).
To: bkopto
The new American ingenuity...
Mike
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:06:01 AM PDT
by
MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: bkopto
"Their instructor was former peace core volunteer Dick Roosenberg, 64, who learned the trade while working for the UN in West Africa."
Yield per acre? The country cannot exist on 80 acre hobby farms.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:06:30 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
To: bkopto
I’m surprised he had a tractor for only an 80 acre farm.
Probably tilled the field using a goat.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:06:58 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: bkopto
Could be financially smart, many folks would gladly pay a lot more for “oxen-tilled” farm produce, no doubt.
Freegards
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:07:41 AM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: bkopto
Farming with draft animals, while more time consuming, is VERY profitable. Ask the Amish about it.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:08:03 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: bkopto
“We are now five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” — attributed to some treasonous Muslim usurper
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:08:54 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: bkopto
"They are also a handy source of fertilizer and can be eaten when they die."
- a cheery side note from the article.
But seriously, we're all going to starve if very many farmers start using oxen instead of tractors.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:08:58 AM PDT
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: bkopto
Obama and his “green” tsars may be smiling, as are assorted agrarian romantics, Maoists and tree-huggers.
And, while, the torments of the after-life aside, the shades of Pol Pot and Mao might be pleased, I doubt Marx would be. Marx despised rural life, which in his day still involved the use of draft animals, and seems to have mistakenly believed his fundamentally anti-human ideas would lead to an industrialized paradise in which worker-owned mechanized collective farms and factories would produce abundance for all.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:09:13 AM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: bkopto
My father always enjoyed working our garden with a horse, but he knew better than to try to gow a farm full of tobacco without a tractor.
Animals may be great for smaller farms but America cannot survive trying to use animals for their food crops.
The Amish around here make it ok, but their farms arent that large, and their families are large. Plenty of kids to clean the barns ,feed the animals ,and work the farm.
Animals do not sit around when they aren’t working, they require care. Care every day. They don’t just eat grass, they eat corn and hay and have to be fed all winter.
You won’t see a lot of farmers going out buying oxen.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:09:17 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: bkopto
—they won’t be doing it for long—subsistence agriculture is on great for other people-—
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:09:17 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: AndrewB
But seriously, we're all going to starve if very many farmers start using oxen instead of tractors.Not really. Actually crops may cost less. Farmers will have to work harder.. It is more work taking care of large draft animals than a tractor.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:11:03 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: bkopto
Our "evil" tractors and our "evil" consumption of "25% of the world's oil" have been feeding the rest of the world for years.
Let's see how they like our new methods of farming when THEY are the once again feeding themselves on insects and monkey dung.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:11:10 AM PDT
by
PalmettoMason
(It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
To: bkopto
My gosh. We’re turning into a 3rd world country!
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:11:20 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(When anti-Catholics can't debate they just make stuff up.)
To: bkopto
$3,000 for a second hand tractor? Second hand garden tractor yes, or a very, very second hand 40 horse tractor. Otherwise the writer is dreaming.
Sounds very romantic and nostalgic. However, like tractors, critters break down, and as noted are much slower.
Bottom line, if done by choice, go for it. If forced by govt incompetence, not good.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:12:37 AM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Ransomed
Could be financially smart, many folks would gladly pay a lot more for oxen-tilled farm produce, no doubt.
But, but, won't it produce ox-flatulence and kill the ozone, thereby radiating the earth and killing all the farm crops.
Just askin'
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:12:41 AM PDT
by
evad
(Obama needs to show us his green card)
To: bkopto
Enjoy while PETA get its act together.
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posted on
05/15/2011 7:12:43 AM PDT
by
mewykwistmas
(Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)
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