Obama is smiling. Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.
In a year’s time the carbon footprint of an oxen must be higher than a small tractor. Not that it makes any difference to me.
I wonder, how are the solid democrat masses in Detroit going to like farming behind a mule on one of those bold, new, urban farms in return for the benefit check? I can't wait for the ads with Michelle telling 'her people' how physical labor in return for their welfare is a good thing and will make their lives on the welfare plantation happier and more rewarding. Yes sir, they can sing, dance, breed as needed, and be real happy just like they were the last time democrat nobles had them all in one place where they could look after them.
John Deere stockholder here... I’m not worried. They’re seeing fantastic demand for tractors. Food inflation, and growing demand from developing countries more than offsets fuel costs...
Farmers should make their own biofuel.
It won’t work on the ten thousand acre fields of the High Plains.
They must plant three times the crop as the animals have to also eat.
Agriculture is a labor intensive form of work. It used to be done by indentured servants, serfs, slaves. Now tractors do the work.
Why do you think so many of the children of the farmers fled to the Big City!
And then when you do have a crop ready for harvest, here comes the “White Harvester” for you! It happened to us in 1951, then drought in 1952. We then left the farm.
Mules, we need more mules.
Want more oxen power, stick some ginger up their butt.
That’s the plan—we’ve been too successful as a nation. Time to tear it down and make it a 3rd world country. Just as intended. Even our president bows down to thugs and goons—time to be a serf too.
SCREW ‘EM!
‘It gave me the confidence that, yes, I could do this’,
But will he be able o live on the 80 acres. I think not. He will eat but you won’t. But his resources to purchase needed things he cannot grow will be meager.
Forgot to add...and recently the UN went about wanting the world to sign a treaty agreeing animals, trees, dirt, etc, have the same rights and entitlements as humans. So I guess when you hook up that ox, it is really slavery.
***When farmers Danielle and Matt Boerson realised they could no longer afford to run their tractors, they took the bull by the horns - and ditched them for oxen.***
Why go this route with oxen? they need to be fed in non use hours.
Go with that great invention of 120 years ago! The STEAM DRIVEN TRACTOR! Of course you need to hire three men and a boy to keep it fed!
Dum basses with pie in the sky ideas..
Welcome to the 18th Century. There will be a newcomers breakfast in the Blue room at Eight.
Beating John Deeres into plowshares.
Like, a big hit back on the commune, dude! Ya know, man?
Little house on the prairie 2012..just leave out Harriet Olsen and nobody gets hurt.
one wacko does not a trend make
Great. Just how much are they going to getintaxpayer subsidies to buy these things?
Maybe this is why Revelation has the Lord returning on horses. Obama etal are going to rid the entire world of machinery and modern ways of transport/living.
I read the excerpt, but the overwhelming stench of Marxist, Socialist, Leftist, Environmentalist propaganda put me off reading any further.