[Tilted Irish Kilt]

FreshPrince :" Yeah I remember the talk this spring how farmers are not planting....well they did."

Yeah, they did because they still had to make payments on the land taxes and pay for their machinery
Many farmers failed to 'side dress' their crops during the growing season, and suffered a reduced crop, which means less income
Also drought has just about decimated the cotton crop, and many other converted their crops to soybeans so as to have some/any short season to harvest and meet their bills
Farmers are one of the worlds oldest profession - gambling the season's crop against Mother Nature,
it is hard enough to bring in a paying crop, it is much more difficult to do so without fertilizers or seed crops.
The bills just don't wait,.. they only increase !

[Ellendra]

it is hard enough to bring in a paying crop, it is much more difficult to do so without fertilizers or seed crops.

Or fuel to run their tractors.

I know a few farmers who are leaving some of their fields unharvested, because the price they would get from selling it is less than the cost of diesel to harvest it with.

[FreshPrince]

Ok then,

Going to wait for the mass starvation in the us this winter...